3D Printing: The future of building?…
- May
- 07
- 2021
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Stick with me while I do some back of the envelope maths. Google performs 3.5 billion searches every day. Assume that is one visit to Google per search. Google has country specific domains (google.com.au for Australia for example). Argentina (just pi…
- Apr
- 30
- 2021
I bought a new red car a couple of years ago. “I can’t believe how many red cars are on the road now,” I remember thinking. Red cars currently make up about eight per cent of new car purchases which, if anything, is slightly down on what it has…
- Apr
- 23
- 2021
Fairfax Tech Talk Column When it comes to business product development, is it better to be the first to market or be the best on market? If you believe the marketing from one particular potato chip company, the best outcome is to be both. “The Orig…
- Apr
- 16
- 2021
When John Venn first wrote about the different ways of representing propositions by diagrams in 1880, I am pretty certain that he didn’t have ID proof on social media at the forefront of his mind, but a Venn diagram of the current proposal before g…
- Apr
- 09
- 2021
I can remember the days of my youth. Not a care in the world with my main priority of finishing my homework so I could get on my BMX bike and ride the streets with my friends. The feeling of wind in my hair, sun on my face and…damn. A puncture. The…
- Apr
- 02
- 2021
Just over a year ago we were coming out of one of the worst bushfire seasons on record. 18.6 million hectares burnt out; 34 lives lost; 2,600 homes; 1 billion animals. It was also a year ago that we went in to a virus-induced lockdown and the world c…
- Mar
- 26
- 2021
I have an admission to make. When people make general reference to swiping left or swiping right, I never know which is the correct direction. Having been married since 1995 I have never had reason to download a dating app. With 270 million people wo…
- Mar
- 19
- 2021
Recently I had the chance to sit down to dinner with our National Rural Health Commissioner, Professor Ruth Stewart. Among many topics of conversation was the average life expectancy for Australians. We are at an all-time high with life expectancy at…
- Mar
- 12
- 2021
In 2015 I visited the Mount Buller Alpine Resort. In summer. I attended the Australian MTB Summit and one session in particular stuck with me. Scot Nicol, the founder of Ibis Bicycles, delivered a discussion on the future of MTB. In his early days of…
- Mar
- 05
- 2021
Very early in my business career, I had a customer who I considered to be a great client. He was buying products and using our services and paying his bills. I got on famously with him. He started to be a little tardy paying bills but I wasn’t that…
- Feb
- 26
- 2021
Finding a lifelong partner is a difficult and complicated exercise. From initially meeting someone to agreeing to spend your lives together there is a journey of discovery. Your visions for the future, your values and overall compatibility. Deal-brea…
- Feb
- 19
- 2021
I am a bit of a fan of pool – the cue sport rather than the water. I grew up in a household where games of pool with my family were a regular occurrence – be they rivalries with siblings or trying to beat Dad or even the all-in version of Kelly P…
- Feb
- 12
- 2021
“Stop playing those video games and focus on what you are going to do after you finish school” is a common expression heard in the Dickerson household when yours truly is trying to get my kids to stop playing games and do their homework. I would …
- Feb
- 05
- 2021
It is not often that I see a member of the Gen Z cohort lost for words but I recently experienced this rare spectacle. A long-term client had made a purchase and handed over a cheque as payment. They left the store and my Gen Z staff member asked abo…
- Jan
- 29
- 2021
Over the holidays I have been introducing my kids to some classic TV shows, including Gilligan’s Island. I still haven’t worked out why five passengers took so many bags of luggage on a ‘three hour tour’ and surely Thurston Howell III, w…
- Jan
- 22
- 2021
It is a familiar scene in our household. Early each morning our Maltese Poodle and Toy Poodle scratch at the front door to alert the humans in the house that they are ready to go outside. Very obligingly, a human slides out of bed and lets the two do…
- Jan
- 15
- 2021
This will be the year that…how many times do we hear a prediction that finally, after a few false starts or stalled attempts, the BIG change is about to happen. It might be about the performance of an individual in sport or in relation to an electi…
- Jan
- 08
- 2021
As a technology futurist, I perform my research and gather my data and use my experience to predict what medium and long-term trends we will see in the technology space. But somewhat like a Climate Change scientist can tell you the long-term effects …
- Jan
- 04
- 2021