Gerry Harvey 'would get rid of all computers'
HARVEY Norman CEO says he would get rid of all computers if he could, saying kids should only use them at school.
Oh Gerry Harvey...
The CEO of Harvey Norman says that if he could get rid of all computers, he would.
"I think one of the great tragedies with youth is that they spend so much time playing games and crap on computers and they’re not outside," he told Ten Late News.
"You’re not healthy and it’s a big problem in our society.
"If I could get rid of computers, all leisure computers for all of Australia I probably would. They can have them at school, but leisure time — no.
"We’re talking about kids playing games mostly online and wasting their life away basically playing games online because they’re not getting any physical activity and their minds are screwed up on these games."
However, in almost the same breath Gerry Harvey also predicted that one day Harvey Norman would be the biggest online retailer in Australia, “but it’s not going to happen overnight,” he said, which would be fine if he hadn't repeatedly said that the internet was a fad which had failed.
"Look, I'll go down in history as saying the internet doesn't work and it will," he told Ten Late News last night.
"I don't know where that comes from. That will be on my epitaph I presume."
So one day Harvey Norman will be the biggest retailer on a platform he believes to be a failure.
We'll keep our fingers crossed for you, Gerry.