]]> Frequently Asked Questions Q: Why are visual and illustrated formats often more effective than text for communicating complex ideas? Visual formats engage different cognitive processing than text. They activate spatial and pattern recognition systems alongside language processing, creating multiple memory traces for the same idea. Illustrations also force simplification: the cartoonist must identify the […]
Wow, I just came off stage at TEDx Melbourne and it’s way to early for the video recording, but here’s the slide deck and a scractchy audio recording of my 18 minutes. My main takeout message is that we are so full of the past that we don’t have room for the future. If we […]
I received the most incredible Christmas gift the other month in the form of an invitation to strut my stuff on the TEDx stage in Melbourne on December 3rd and with only 5 sleeps to go I can’t wait to unwrap my present that I’ve titled – Unlearn the Future and don’t worry I haven’t […]
By 2050 the demand for meat will have doubled across the globe, but we will have less water, land and farmers to grow it with. Given that it’s unlikely we will decrease our universal appetite for animal protein, nor will we unfortunately get any better at sharing what we already have and making it go […]
It normally takes at least 10 years of consecutive use for a word to appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, but like everything else nowadays things happens fast. Last week the word “Tweet” was accepted as both a verb and noun, this may sound insignificant, but it goes along way to proving the case that […]
Robots have long been the stuff of science fiction and many of us have grown up waiting for the day when our dreams might turn into technological reality. In this morning’s regular look ahead David Dowsett of radio ABC and I took a look at robots and discovered that they are already here. Telemedicine robots […]
