I’ve been writing this blog since 2010. In that very first post, I quoted figures estimating the content of the Internet had reached 487 billion…
It’s time to reduce our working week, and we can achieve it by better directing our technology to benefit society. Pioneering economist, John Maynard Keynes,…
If you’re reading this, it’s very likely that you are at least vaguely interested in technology. It’s even possible that you get a bit excited…
During my last trip on the London Underground, I was struck by the remarkable achievement of the nineteenth-century engineers who built its first Metropolitan Railway…
You enter a special type of hell when you are about to press “buy” and the website makes you register for an account, or when…
We like to think we are in control of our destiny. However, decades of research into chaos theory and behavioural economics should have taught us otherwise. There…
After three wonderful years, I close 2022 having completed my term as Chair of the Australian Information Industry Association. Serving as the AIIA Chair for…
In late 2021, reporter Matt Doran had the exclusive Australian interview with Adele ahead of the release of her new album. Unfortunately, after he’d flown all…
Every now and again the rules change, creating new winners and losers with the associated social disruption. This is one of those times as the boundaries…