by JAK | Jun 13, 2025 | big ideas, industry futures
A couple of weeks ago I was over in Queenstown for the Electrify Queenstown conference. Here are some of my notes. “Electrify Queenstown is a three-day event that brings together community, business, government, and industry to accelerate the transition to a...
by JAK | May 15, 2024 | big ideas, industry futures
It seems like the mainstream media stories are missing most of the good news about solar, wind and batteries ( renewables) dramatically improving the electricity generation future for NZ and many other countries. Because I am working on some futures type projects I...
by JAK | May 14, 2024 | big ideas, industry futures
Back in the 90’s early 2000’s I found myself at the BHP training centre in Victoria. I was there as part of an in house training thing for some consulting group that I worked at for a while. The point is – there was a swimming pool and the NZ team...
by JAK | Feb 19, 2024 | big ideas, development
From RethinkX “”We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most profound disruption of the energy sector in over a century. Like most disruptions, this one is being driven by the convergence of several key technologies whose costs and capabilities have...
by JAK | May 12, 2023 | big ideas, crmthinking, culture
To even the most casual reader it seems like every day there is a news story about some wonderful thing that AI is doing for us or perhaps doing to us and we should be very wary because this is a bad thing and so on. The need to have a story angle for much of the...
by JAK | Jan 24, 2018 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
Just because we can do something is not a great argument for doing that particular thing. I’m thinking that the current monopoly of the online universe by Google and Facebook in particular is being distorted well beyond what we altruists ever imagined. In a...
