by JAK | Mar 19, 2015 | big ideas, TED
TED 2015 is on right now in Vancouver and while I am not there (one day:) I have been watching the various media streams when I have a moment. What I was struck by on the first day was what I think is a profound dissonance between a couple of presentations on the...
by JAK | Feb 19, 2015 | culture
So there I was at 9:30am and the water is freezing cold. It had seemed like a good idea a few weeks earlier during the summer heat. And in I went because – after all it was my birthday and I had promised myself a swim/snorkel at Goat Island. How often it seems...
by JAK | Jan 8, 2015 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
Back in September last year at the 2014 MORGO conference I was able to try out the Samsung Gear Oculus VR device and I was very impressed to see a swim by of a Blue Whale and more on the screen. VR as a concept; has been around for quite a while and like many others,...
by JAK | Dec 5, 2014 | culture, video
Someone wiser than me once said that “life is wasted on the living” (Douglas Adams) and I know what he meant. I’ve also been lucky enough to meet people who have had near death experiences and one side effect is to make sure that every day counts and...
by JAK | Oct 22, 2014 | big ideas, culture
Today I heard 3 economists discussing the Piketty book with regards to the NZ economy. The Piketty book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” is I suspect a mostly unread best seller that many of us think we should read but where to start… And more...
