Two Banks Gave Cheques 30 or 40 Years. Most of Us Stopped Long Before.
Two large banks once told me the end of cheques was 30 or 40 years away, if ever. The government’s end date is 2030. Most of us had already stopped.
Twenty Years, 1,700 Interviews and a Few Calls I’d Like Back
I went back and listened to twenty years of me on the radio: about 1,700 interviews on forty-odd stations, from Bourke to Hong Kong. Here are the calls I got right, the ones I’d like back, and the new podcast, Then and Now, that plays them one year at a time.
Data Centres Are Being Built Because We Asked for Them
Every photo you’ve never deleted sits in a data centre somewhere. Australia’s data centres use about 3% of the main grid’s electricity now and could reach 13% within a decade. On RTHK Radio 3 I said they’re being built because we asked for them, and some regional towns might want to put their hand up.
The Agent That Asks Before It Answers
Agents now act for us and clones can sound like anyone. The most useful agent may be the one that slows you down. From my RTHK Radio 3 segment.
Two Brains, One Skull, and the Wrong Place to Start
Stanford found the brain is two organs grown from two different starting cells. Decades of failed lab work came from one assumption nobody went back to check. What that means for medicine, and for the times we keep trying harder at the wrong thing.
Still Running on 1569
The map on the classroom wall was drawn in 1569, and we were marked on how well we could reproduce it. Phil Whelan asked me the harder question on air: we can’t go through life re-examining everything, so how do we choose? Coffee is coffee and tea is tea. What varies is how far in you go.
