by JAK | Aug 16, 2013 | culture, TEDx, video
This week the cardboard cathedral finally opened in Christchurch. The cathedral cost NZ $5.6m which is a lot for cardboard but astoundingly it is designed to last up to 50 years. Whatever your thoughts on such buildings the actual architecture and design is worth...
by JAK | Aug 2, 2013 | big data, culture, TEDx, video
Tomorrow is TEDxAuckland 2013 and I will be there with bells on. I love ideas and thinking “across the universe” as I see it. Modern education ( it has been said) forces us to concentrate more and more on less and less and I think we should aim a bit wider...
by JAK | May 17, 2013 | culture, music, TEDx, video
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...
by JAK | Apr 30, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video
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...
by JAK | Apr 28, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video
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...
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...
