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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 twitter stream on Twemes
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Nurses, naughtiness and women in IT
NetRegistry have raised some ire in some parts by having women dressed as nurses on their stand at CeBIT in Sydney. In some ways this all takes me back to the bad old days when IT was a blokey world and scantily clad women were commonplace at conferences and exhibitions.
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Nurses, naughtiness and women in IT
NetRegistry have raised some ire in some parts by having women dressed as nurses on their stand at CeBIT in Sydney. In some ways this all takes me back to the bad old days when IT was a blokey world and scantily clad women were commonplace at conferences and exhibitions.
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Social networking & your career
I had the pleasure of speaking, along with Karen Ganschow from Telstra, at the FITT CeBIT lunch today in Sydney. We had a great turnout and there were even a few men in attendance. It's FITT's 20th anniversary this year - a big milestone for a
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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 a really diverse line-up of speakers (pdf list here). This conference is run by ADC (Australian Davos Connection) &
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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 a really diverse line-up of speakers (pdf list here). This conference is run by ADC (Australian Davos Connection) &
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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 the area of law, rules of engagement, and the personal effects of this kind of warfare on both combatants and
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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 Dr Peter Singer, of the Brookings Institution, about his new book, Wired for War: The Robotics
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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 Dr Peter Singer, of the Brookings Institution, about his new book, Wired for War: The Robotics
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Gilmore of the eponymous law
~ A few times now I've referred to Gilmore's Law and wanted to share a bit more about its author. John Gilmore is one of the true mavericks of the internet, and he is a self described entrepreneur and civil libertarian. His ideas are further out on
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Telstra IT transformation woes
I was about to write some more about the networked society but this article by Michael Sainsbury caught my eye: Telstra trauma as tranformation costs mount. This is a sad, but all to common, tale of a large organisation that desperately needs to update its core systems, and to integrate
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Telstra IT transformation woes
I was about to write some more about the networked society but this article by Michael Sainsbury caught my eye: Telstra trauma as tranformation costs mount. This is a sad, but all to common, tale of a large organisation that desperately needs to update its core systems, and to integrate