Australia Has an AI Strategy. I’m Still Waiting for the AI Vision.
The Albanese government just announced $3.6 billion for AI. But a strategy for Australian AI isn’t the same as a strategy for AI in Australia. Here’s what’s missing.
The Albanese government just announced $3.6 billion for AI. But a strategy for Australian AI isn’t the same as a strategy for AI in Australia. Here’s what’s missing.
The percentage of men with no close friends has gone from 3% to 15% since 1990. For the first time in the data, older men are lonelier than older women. Morris Misel unpacks the friendship recession, what drives it, and what Australia accidentally got right.
When the past runs the room and the future feels threatening, organisations cannot learn or prepare. PTFA names the pattern, and that is how you begin to move through it.
When every organisation improves in the same direction, the second and third order consequences aren’t growth. They’re narrowing.
The measure of a good future is not whether it is efficient or technologically impressive. It is whether the people living inside it can trust it, navigate it, and retain their dignity.
Most futures thinking tells you what might happen. Immediate Futures tells you what is already happening, and what you can do about it now, before the window closes.