Adelaine Ng of Radio ABC Australia and I in our regular FutureTech segment chatted about the forever expanding and changing virtual world and the notions of crowdsourcing and crowdfunding as as two important emerging trends. Crowdfunding involves raising funds through various portals for projects that might otherwise be rejected by the banks. It could be […]
Here’s an article I recently wrote on the future of work and workplaces for the New Exchange The Year 2020 is only nine years away and for many it holds the romantic promise of how different life and business will be, but will the reality live up to the expectation? 2020 In 2020 we will […]
I was recently asked by the Greater City of Dandenong to ponder on the future of business and work and decided to turn it into an article for them, which has just come out in there March – May edition of Stakeholder —————————————————————————————————————- I’m sitting here in Dandenong in the year 2020 reflecting on my […]
This question I have been most often asked in the last week is whether online retailing killed Angus and Robertson and Borders and the simple answer is, no. It possibly played a part in its demise, but it can not be blamed for it when there are a myriad of other factors that occurred. Michael […]
In this morning’s Herald Sun me and 4 fellow futurists talked about what we saw ahead for 2011 and what we believe is on the way up and what’s on the way down. I’m not sure how my down list included plastic surgery, but the others all sound like stuff I said. The other striking […]
Our annual walk down the red carpet of next year, as we chat about my near future predictions for 2011. My theme for 2011 is “near and dear” because it seems everything we’re talking about will be centered around social businesses awakening to the reality that now must conduct their activities both on and off-line […]
