Future and the Summit
Kate Carruthers I was really lucky to be able to attend the Australian Davos Connection’s Future Summit 2009 in Melbourne earlier this week. When I walked into the venue it was a…
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future summit day 1
Here at the Future Summit 2009 in Melbourne – interesting attendees (lots of people in suits though 😉 You can check out the Flickr photos and videos & see the…
Future Summiteer
~ next week I’m off to the Future Summit in Melbourne on 18-19 May. The theme for 2009 is Priorities for Australia in the Crisis and Beyond, and there is…
Future Summiteer
~ next week I’m off to the Future Summit in Melbourne on 18-19 May. The theme for 2009 is Priorities for Australia in the Crisis and Beyond, and there is…
Do we need robotic technology rules of engagement?
In a recent post I discussed a talk by Dr Peter Singer about robotics and 21st century warfare. This use of technology raises some very big moral dilemmas, especially in…
Singularity be damned!
It’s the robotics revolution that is already here! It is reshaping our world in some important ways and most of us aren’t even noticing. I attended a talk yesterday by…
Singularity be damned!
It’s the robotics revolution that is already here! It is reshaping our world in some important ways and most of us aren’t even noticing. I attended a talk yesterday by…
On our way to a networked society.
In an earlier generation all computer networks were for business or the military. That is, they were point-to-point connections between large organisations and were vastly expensive to setup and run.…
From society of the book to a networked society
Neerav Bhatt did an interesting post about Encyclopedia Britannica, saying: Organisations in the information industry such as Book Publishers and Libraries would do well to learn from Encyclopedia Britannica’s precipitous…
Business in the Cloud
It is true that there is nothing new under the sun (Ecc 1:9) and for those of us old enough to remember computer bureaux the move the cloud computing is…