Paraphrasing the former US Secretary of Education, Richard Riley, we are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are pr…
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When the fictional character Tom Dobbs (played by Robin Williams) was elected as President of the United States in the 2006 movie, Man of the Year, it played on the fears of people across the world when the subject of electronic voting is raised. In …
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In technology and innovation, it can be as much about when as it is about what. Six years ago, I was involved with a charity event and a standard recipe for such an event was for an auctioneer to take the microphone and spend thirty minutes trying to…
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We have a funny legal system in Australia. Most of us have broken some laws but we don’t look over our shoulder every minute of the day worrying about the long arm of the law. Some of us are even breaking laws on a daily basis. If you live in V…
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For over one hundred years, pragmatic advice freely handed out to people or organisations in a seemingly doomed situation has been “if you can’t lick ‘em, jine ‘em.” I suspect that was the logic applied in the latest mov…
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I was attending a conference at Hamilton Island several years ago, and a peer in the industry asked me if he and his wife could sit down with me and grill me on a few business concepts. Of course I obliged. They believed their business had plateaued….
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“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” It would be hard to imagine what Newton would think, almost 350 years later, of how the world of technology has taken to heart this concept of building upon previous k…
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Great! There is a new app I want to use that all my friends are talking about. I can hardly wait to download it and start using it. Terms and conditions, I hear you say? Ha! Who has time to read all that legal gobbledygook? I am sure it will be OK an…
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One of my favourite intellectual TV programs when I was growing up was ‘Hypotheticals’ which aired on the ABC and starred Geoffrey Robertson. I loved the concept – put a hypothetical situation to a panel of experts and then explore …
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One Day International (ODI) Number 4192 was played on 14 July 2019. This was a milestone match. It was a World Cup final. After ending in a tie, it was the first ever ODI to be decided by a Super Over. And then it wasn’t really decided by a Sup…
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Toyota has just started testing a new Prius with a solar roof that will be used to charge a plug-in battery. With the increased efficiency of solar panels, it makes sense. To give you some perspective, the amount of power that hits the earth’s …
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Woohoo! I just won my grocery supply for the next year! With four hungry kids our grocery bill is a significant expense in our household. I can hardly wait to see those free groceries appearing at my doorstep. I’ve been waiting for a week now b…
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On 23 April 1991, Gerald Ratner delivered a speech to the Institute of Directors. Almost overnight, he lost his job (along with the £650,000 salary), £500 million was wiped off the valuation of the company, and a billion-pound turnover wa…
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I remember growing up playing the board game Monopoly. It was as much a psychological experiment with family and friends as it was a game. The analysis started when the tokens were chosen. Battleship – cutthroat. Boot – grudge. Car &ndash…
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Y2k Bug? Y2Worry? Take a moment to cast your mind back to the late nineties. We were obsessed with news about Bill Clinton and impeachment. We were horrified by the Columbine High School massacre. We listened to Elton John and Britney and a new gener…
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I am sure you remember the old trick question that your science teacher gave you at some stage during your high school education. Which has more mass – a kilogram of feathers or a kilogram of lead? Along those same lines, which is of more value…
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We have a medical mystery that has stumped our family physician; Our children all seem to be afflicted with this recurring condition. We have tried different foods as recommended by our dietician; And consulted a French professor – the world&rs…
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For a condensed version of this article, see: Y2k Bug? Y2Worry? Condensed. Take a moment to cast your mind back to the late nineties. We were obsessed with news about Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and the impeachment trial in the US Senate. …
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Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s…my taxi! We haven’t noticed any people from Krypton flying around our skies but we are certainly closer to the world depicted in The Jetsons, the animated sitcom that…
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