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...
by JAK | Mar 30, 2013 | big ideas, culture, TED, video
Yesterday while driving home with my daughter after one of her after school activities she mentioned that she was thinking it would be good to be a primary school teacher. I asked her why primary school (equivalent to elementary school in US) and she said it is...
by JAK | Mar 20, 2013 | big data, industry futures, video
Last October there was a health conference meets big data event in SF called StrataRX. As the intro (below) says it was exploring a future where we can better use technology to manage the explosion of data available from our various health systems....
by JAK | Mar 5, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video
Last year I watched an earlier version of this talk from the South African edition of the TED talent quest. As NZ is world famous for pastoral based farming I’d expect that NZ agricultural scientists know something about pastures and vegetation management....
