British EU Exit May Come With Silver Lining for Global Tech Industry

The vote by the British people to leave the European Union is causing much hand-wringing at home and abroad, but nobody actually knows what effects the decision will have on the global tech industry.

But as soon as the votes were counted, all sorts of pronouncements were rapidly aired, nearly all without any basis in fact. The reason for the lack of facts is that major national and political secessions are fairly rare in Western history.