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 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....
by JAK | Feb 27, 2013 | big ideas, TED, video
The TED2013 Prize has been awarded to Sugata Mitra for his projects on self organised learning systems. The prize has just been awarded less than an hour ago so here are a couple of slides and links till the clip from today becomes available. Note: now updated with...
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...
