by JAK | May 17, 2013 | culture, music, TEDx, video
Omar Musa gave an electric poetic performance at TEDxSydney 2013. What I loved most about his talk is that his poem sounded like a conversation at first but then with the skill that only comes from a master wordsmith he worked up a series of vivid pictures as he...
by JAK | Apr 30, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video
Here is the actual debate between Gordon and Brynjolfsson from TED 2013. Towards the end it goes in some surprising directions. Gordons first question relates to artificial intelligence and single purpose machines. The rebuttal is that machines solve problems in a...
by JAK | Apr 28, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video
Here is the Prof Robert Gordon TED2013 talk on the end of growth which was answered by the Erik Brynjolfsson counter view (posted on last week.) Then the two of them had a 12 minute debate. The first point I noted is that instead of the 6 headwinds the presentation is...
by JAK | Apr 27, 2013 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
Back in 2007 law Professor Elizabeth Warren gave a talk on “The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”. Last November Warren was elected to the US senate and now quite predictably some of her academic work has come under the microscope. Whenever anyone...
by JAK | Apr 26, 2013 | big data, big ideas, TED, video
At the 2013 TED conference there was a debate between Prof Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson (director of the MIT Center for Digital Business) on the future of work. I have written before about Gordons theory but here is a great way to work through some counter...
