by JAK | May 14, 2012 | culture, music, TED
Is Kaki King a guitar god or not? The really interesting thing about music and other art is that we as viewers get to spin off in a multitude of directions and the real answer is that all of those opinions are correct and valid. There is no right answer to the musical...
by JAK | May 10, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
The parliamentary elections in NZ last year will be remembered for having the lowest voter turnout since 1887 At the time a lot of commentators opined that this was the result of Labour Party voters staying away in droves because they knew they couldn’t beat...
by JAK | May 9, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
What if David Attenborough could sing? How about Stephen Hawking? Brian Cox? Well thanks to John Boswell at Symphony of Science they can and the results are surprising, delightful, educational and musically inventive. When my daughter was younger we watched hours of...
by JAK | May 7, 2012 | big ideas, music, TED, TEDx
Ever since Brian Sweeney and Remo Giuffre told me about TED back in the early 90’s or maybe before that (TED started in 1984) I have been a huge fan. Brians 7×7 events in NZ were inspired by TED and they still resonate even though today we have TEDxSydney,...
by JAK | May 3, 2012 | big ideas, culture, general business, industry futures
Last year a couple of big finance stories caught my attention. I had just seen the movie Inside Job . What was very interesting to me was the idea that economists and other academics in the finance world had been utterly compromised by the global financial meltdown....
