Unlearn the Future
Wow, I just came off stage at TEDx Melbourne and it’s way to early for the video recording, but here’s the slide deck and a scractchy audio recording of my 18 minutes. My main takeout message is that we are so full of the past that we don’t have room for the future. If we […]
TEDx here I come!!
I received the most incredible Christmas gift the other month in the form of an invitation to strut my stuff on the TEDx stage in Melbourne on December 3rd and with only 5 sleeps to go I can’t wait to unwrap my present that I’ve titled – Unlearn the Future and don’t worry I haven’t […]
This week in the future
The last silent digital bastion has fallen with the United States announcing that it will soon allow electronic devices to be used on-board aircraft during takeoff and landing, in the same week we have seen 300,000 gamers helping scientists undertake genomic research by playing Philo. The world is definitely changing and in our radio segment […]
Eat it, or not
By 2050 the demand for meat will have doubled across the globe, but we will have less water, land and farmers to grow it with. Given that it’s unlikely we will decrease our universal appetite for animal protein, nor will we unfortunately get any better at sharing what we already have and making it go […]
Well, well, wellness
In the near past our medical system offered intervention and repair in a prescribed medicine approach, where we waited for something to go wrong with us, we then sought out assistance from a medical or allied health practitioner and then followed their advice to achieve hopefully a positive outcome. In the near future we are […]