by JAK | Sep 16, 2016 | culture, general business, industry futures
Or are they Utopian revolutionaries? Ouch… @bentarnoff has written about why some people hate the tech industry in an article called Gaffes, ignorance and PR nightmares: why it’s so easy to hate the tech industry for the Guardian. “The reality is...
by JAK | Aug 28, 2016 | culture, industry futures
Public Address held a special Journalism / Media event back on August 23rd. I couldn’t be there at the time but I was very pleased to see that a full clip has been loaded up on the 95BFM YouTube channel. Russell Brown already wrote about the event Orcon IRL on...
by JAK | Jul 13, 2016 | culture, industry futures
I have a very old copy of “Understanding Media” by Marshall McLuhan on my bookshelf. When I was 13 there was a teacher at my school who was clearly a fan of McLuhan’s ideas and more than 50 years later many of those ideas still hold true but the...
by JAK | Jun 28, 2016 | culture, industry futures
At this point it would be an understatement to think that the Brexit vote in the U.K is a huge moment of truth for all Western democracies. I still maintain trying to solve a complex question regarding E.U membership with a simplistic referendum was a very bad idea....
by JAK | Jun 25, 2016 | culture, industry futures
Yesterday we watched on as the UK voted to leave the EC. That such a complex issue was put to a simple yes/no referendum vote by an arrogant P.M is a travesty. The best description I have seen is that all of those voting to leave were very much like turkeys voting for...
by JAK | May 4, 2016 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
The Democrats in the U.S have a serious problem. Their preferred candidate Hillary Clinton was supposed to have everything stitched up by now. And then Bernie has gone and won Indiana. His 18th win in a race that was supposed to be a slam dunk for Clinton. The Clinton...
