In today’s podcast Phil Dobbie of CBS’s BTalk and I looks at ten things that will change our lives and businesses this year: Hyper-personalisation More social media More working together Mobile devices as personal assistants Our mobile device will tell us more about what’s going on More apps Social business Everything on the go Pictures, […]
This question I have been most often asked in the last week is whether online retailing killed Angus and Robertson and Borders and the simple answer is, no. It possibly played a part in its demise, but it can not be blamed for it when there are a myriad of other factors that occurred. Michael […]
Dreams and heaven come in all shapes and sizes, but for a tech and futurist guy in January of each year they only come from one place, the Consumer Electronic Show. This annual Las Vegas based event is the canary in the cage for what might be ahead as manufacturers and wannabe’s show off the […]
In this morning’s Herald Sun me and 4 fellow futurists talked about what we saw ahead for 2011 and what we believe is on the way up and what’s on the way down. I’m not sure how my down list included plastic surgery, but the others all sound like stuff I said. The other striking […]
Hyper me; we and us; let’s get together; hide and seek; make me appy are just a few of my near future predictions for 2011 in a year that I have termed “near and dear”. In this weeks segment Ted and I meander our way through some of my top 10 annual predictions and what […]
Checkout this on air chat between Scott Pape (the Barefoot Investor) and me on radio MTR and 2GB this evening. It was a conversation about the increase use of self checkouts at supermarkets and the future of in store promotion and purchasing. We chatted briefly about the rise of the self checkout over the last […]
