Today’s students will live to 120, have 6 careers and 14 jobs and work into their 90’s in industries that we haven’t even begun to imagine, doing tasks that we don’t yet know we need. With an education system built on rote learning, the 3 R’s and a set of entrenched structures all developed for […]
The decline in people working a traditional 9-5 work week, the rise of people working on weekends and non traditional hours and the 5.00 p.m. closing of ABC Sydney’s afternoon broadcaster James Valentine’s local bakery was enough to spark an on-air conversation about where work is headed in the future. The conversation quickly turned to […]
On the back of an open letter signed by 1,000 high-profile leading experts in artificial intelligent (AI), including Tesla’s Elon Musk, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Professor Stephen Hawking, calling for an immediate ban on all future military use of artificial intelligent (AI) technology we debated the good the bad and the ugly of this […]
As an animal species humans are hard-wired to intuitively recognise the need for change and to react accordingly. Our ancestors knew when the land was fallow and they had to move on; when the weather was too hot or too cold and find an alternative living space. We knew food was running low and we […]
reprinted from the New Daily One of the most-played computer games in human history has been tainted by greed. Since 1990, Solitaire has been a part of Microsoft’s operating system Windows, offering countless hours of entertainment to bored office workers and multi-millions of dollars in lost productivity to their bosses. Who can forget the thrill […]
This week I was in 4BC’s Brisbane studio with Clare Blake as we attempted to look at things that were happening now that might end up being tomorrows’ big trend or fad. I say tried, because we did get to things like nose to tail dining; last weeks New York Fashion weeks big trend of […]
