The Optimistic Economy

The Optimistic Economy

This week I noticed two articles showing that after nearly 5 years various economies around the world are now showing some promising signs. According to some commentators the US is at last expecting economic growth of about 4% in 2014 /15 and this would be the best...

Rainy day fun on twitter

Twitter has been around for a long time now. I forgot about Vizify but they are back with this little video bio compile tool. Increasingly social media will use video. Just made a movie of my twitter: https://t.co/DdyJXVhwuz Let me know what you think, then make your...
Omar Musa captures downtown with words

Omar Musa captures downtown with words

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...

Progress Paradox debate – Gordon, Brynjolfsson

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...

Robert Gordon on the end of growth at TED 2013

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...