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Many people who were vaccinated as children do not realise that by the time we’re all grown up some of our protection no longer works.
In the case of whooping cough, or pertussis, the protection can wane in as little as six to ten years. This means that [...]
Truth is said to be a double edged sword. Yet truth is only a problem if one is trying to hide something. The Wikileaks saga shows how difficult is has become to keep secrets in our hyperconnected world.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is [...]
This is a fascinating interview by Parag Khanna (@paragkhanna) with Don Tapscott (@dtapscott). Tapscott discusses the potential upside and downside of collaborative revolutions for societies around the world and the implications for dissent, noting that:
“the Internet radically drops the cost of dissent”
Even though it was once said ironically, it has always seemed to me that Australia really is the lucky country. Our national anthem, Advance Australia Fair, sums it up:
We’ve golden soil and wealth for toil…
Our land abounds in nature’s gifts…
We’ve boundless [...]
THESE are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet [...]
Along with most other Australians I have been moved and disturbed by the unfolding flood disaster in northern Australia. The floods are said to cover an area of Australia the size of France and Germany combined. Typical of Australia we also have bushfires in the western [...]
Every business book I pick up nowadays seems to accept as a fundamental premise that innovation is a good thing and that it should be pursued relentlessly. But I’ve been wondering about that particular premise and under what circumstances it might (or might not) be true.
Innovation provides us with [...]
I like Paris in winter – there are not too many tourists and the queues to get into museums and galleries are much shorter. Of course, in 2010 western Europe experienced snowpocalypse and many people suffered from cancelled transport and were forced to spend days trapped in airport [...]
After many weeks of planning with my co-conspirators Michelle Williams and Kim Chen we are finally on the eve of the second Social Innovation BarCamp.
This venture was a leap of faith for us. At the start we did not know if anyone else [...]
Or how do we escape the ‘experts‘ in the echo chamber? Inspired by @jeffjarvis, whose recent post on TEDxNYed: This is bullshit got me thinking about this whole ‘expertise‘ thing again.
Iconoclasts are the people who tear down the idols of faith. Traditionally this [...]
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