TEDx in Cartoons

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Unlearn the Future

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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 […]

The Future of Sleep

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Good news, we will continue to sleep into the future, but the nature of sleep, how, where, when and why may change. In a 3 month Australia wide research project I’ve just completed for Sealy, I investigated the future of sleep and beds through to 2055. David Dowsett and I chatted about some of the […]

TEDx here I come!!

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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 […]

Hyperpersonalised Retail

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Here’s an article I wrote for Stockland Retail November Newsletter: In the analogue 20th century we ventured out into the world to discover, to buy and to engage. In the digital 21st century the world comes to us through a myriad of always-on mobile devices that constantly scour, interpret and filter what’s around us, searching […]

Everything old is futuristic again

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Vinyl record sales are up 70% this year and this prompted Belinda King of Radio ABC Tasmania and I to take a nostalgic look at the future to explore what other past trends are making a comeback. Nostalgia and authenticity are two of my 13 trends for 2013 and they usually are a response to […]

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