by JAK | Jun 18, 2013 | culture, industry futures
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...
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 | 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 | Feb 27, 2013 | culture, industry futures, TED
Progress Enigma was the title of a debate shared at TED 2013 a few hours ago. Economists Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson debated the future of work. The paradox of our technology enabled times is that (despite the writing having been on the wall for decades ) we...
by JAK | Feb 20, 2013 | big data, big ideas, industry futures
This is a kickstarter campaign by Australian economist Professor Steve Keen. Visual data modelling for economists is what the Minsky tool represents. Essentially this tool makes modelling much easier to understand and so I am all in favour of it and have backed it....
by JAK | Jan 16, 2013 | big ideas, industry futures, video
One of the questions that comes up when researching solar power is that as all of the generation comes during daylight hours it is off-peak and less useful. In Australia daytime energy use is actually peak because of air conditioning and I suspect the changing work...
