What is Your job is going, going, gone! / Balls Radio? People vs technology is the battle of tomorrow with predictions of 500,00 jobs being transferred from humans to machines within the next decade in Australia. We have already borne witness to routine jobs like bank tellers, cashiers, assembly workers and others losing their jobs [...]
The end of cash / ABC Adelaide
What is The end of cash / ABC Adelaide? Denmark intends to get rid of the obligation for its retailers to accept payment in cash and instead push its citizens into a cashless society. This new world of payments was enough for Sonya Feldoff of ABC Adelaide to spark another of our regular chats looking [...]
How fast will fast food become? | ABC Overnights
Remember the local fish and chip store, Chinese restaurant, pie and sauce and chicko roll? Well, they like many other cultural norms, made way for their successor the mostly American hamburger and pizza format stores which 40 years ago heralded in a new way to eat-out and a new cuisine. These store have done well […]
Thou shall not infringe copyright #iidallas | ABC Adelaide
In the wake of the ruling that compelled iiNet and other ISP providers to release the names and contact details of 4,726 account holders that may have downloaded the movie Dallas Buyers Club, there’s been lots of discussion about this being a watershed moment in Australia and illegal downloading, but to me this is a far more interesting conversation […]
What job will you be doing in 2025? | ABC Gippsland
What is What job will you be doing? Will we have jobs in 2025 and beyond? If we do, what will they be, what will we do and how and when will we do it? With the growing cry that technology is taking our jobs, statistics around that robots will displace 500,000 jobs in Australia [...]
A world without tech: frightening or free? | The New Daily
What is A world without tech? A phone-and-web blackout in rural Victoria reveals how reliant we are on the trappings of modern life. reprinted: Jackson Stiles Advisor Editor The New Daily In November 2012, a huge chunk of rural Victoria was plunged into a profound technological darkness. A fire at the Telstr.How does A world [...]