Work is going to hell in a futurist’s hand basket / ABC Sydney Afternoons with James Valentine

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What is Work is going to hell in a futurist's hand basket /? 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 [...]

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Should Artificially Intelligent robots be allowed to fight future wars? / Radio Hong Kong 3, ABC Wide Bay, ABC Far North

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What is Should Artificially Intelligent robots be allowed 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 .Why do organisations need [...]

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We are hard wired to love change, so stop fighting it / Hong Kong Radio 3

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What is We are hard wired to love change, so stop fighting it? 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 [...]

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Windows wants to charge you to play Solitaire / The New Daily

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What is Windows wants to charge you to play Solitaire / The? 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 [...]

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Tomorrow’s next big thing – Chinese take away in saucepans / 4BC

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What is Tomorrow's next big thing Chinese take away in? 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 [...]

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How will we shop in 2020? / 4BC

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The wailing and crying over the supposed death of physical retail stores seems to have been raging forever, but really it’s a recent conversation and one that is way overhyped. Obviously there is a relatively new retail player that lives inside the digital world and starting from a zero base only a decade or so […]

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