Emergencies fast-forward historical processes. Entire countries serve as guinea-pigs in large-scale social experiments. (Yuval Noah Harari) For the past few years I have been delivering Digital Skills workshops to interested students at Goodenough...
In May last year I wrote about how Brave Conversations was increasing its global reach as we ventured to London England, Kingston Jamaica, Melbourne Australia, Boston USA, and a second event in London in 2019. In 2020 we began to extend that reach ...
In July last year, before we had Intersticia UK properly set up, I wrote this post. We are about to take Brave Conversations to the next level with events in Melbourne, Boston and London. If we know that alternative futures are possible then we can...
(Quote from David Brin) On 1st March Ariana Huffington posted an article entitled “The Great Awakening” which stated that For most of the internet’s young life, the assumption of virtue was built in — it was largely taken for grante...
A version of this was written for NPC’s “State of the Sector” report. What do we mean by “digital”? In his book The Code Economy [1] Philip E. Auerswald talks about the long history of humans developing code as a mechanism by which to cre...
Last week in an article in the Financial Review renown businessman David Gonski talked about the commoditisation of the professions. Let's be professional and fight artificial intelligence. (David Gonski) Gonski is right on a number of fronts, b...
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