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 [...]
Windows wants to charge you to play Solitaire / The New Daily
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 [...]
Tomorrow’s next big thing – Chinese take away in saucepans / 4BC
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 [...]
11 NASA Technologies we now use everyday / Radio Hong Kong 3, ABC Wide Bay, ABC Far North
What is 11 NASA Technologies we now use everyday / Radio Hong? I innovation all the way to the moon and back On the 46th anniversary of man first walking on the moon, in several of my regular radio segments I took a look and 11 gadgets and tech things we have today that are [...]
How will we shop in 2020? / 4BC
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 […]
Founding fathers, open source & willy wonka / Radio Hong Kong 3
Lots bubbling out there and in my regular catch up with Phil Whelan of Hong Kong Radio 3 we took a look at some of the stories catching his eye and some of the stuff I’m speaking about and working on. This week we marked the sad and untimely passing of Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s Chief […]