by JAK | May 27, 2012 | big ideas, TEDx
Yesterday I was at TEDxSydney live at the Carriageworks and it was a completely mind-blowing, epic, energising and surprisingly musical day. Unusually for me I left my twitter off and instead plugged straight into the equivalent of an 829 brain mega parrallel organic...
by JAK | May 25, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED
Last week I heard a fascinating story about a project where conservation staff have developed a remote controlled microphone to record bird calls especially Kiwi in the wild. What was really interesting to me about the story was how they wrote some software to scan...
by JAK | May 23, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED, TEDx
It has been great looking at big data this week but mostly we are still stuck with dragging a mouse around a screen. That is another limit that needs to go. It would be great to be able to manipulate data on a screen in other more tactile ways. A giant pile of data...
by JAK | May 22, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED, TEDx
Finding great answers always starts with great questions – however in today’s world we are often overwhelmed by enormous amounts of data. If only we knew the “right questions” we would be so much closer to a better understanding of the world...
by JAK | May 19, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED
Imagine you never stopped learning and that every so often a friend, educator, health professional or heaven forbid – some bloke on Facebook gives you feedback on something that they think you need to change – what do you do? Lets assume this is medical...
by JAK | May 14, 2012 | culture, music, TED
Is Kaki King a guitar god or not? The really interesting thing about music and other art is that we as viewers get to spin off in a multitude of directions and the real answer is that all of those opinions are correct and valid. There is no right answer to the musical...
by JAK | May 10, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
The parliamentary elections in NZ last year will be remembered for having the lowest voter turnout since 1887 At the time a lot of commentators opined that this was the result of Labour Party voters staying away in droves because they knew they couldn’t beat...
by JAK | May 9, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
What if David Attenborough could sing? How about Stephen Hawking? Brian Cox? Well thanks to John Boswell at Symphony of Science they can and the results are surprising, delightful, educational and musically inventive. When my daughter was younger we watched hours of...
by JAK | May 7, 2012 | big ideas, music, TED, TEDx
Ever since Brian Sweeney and Remo Giuffre told me about TED back in the early 90’s or maybe before that (TED started in 1984) I have been a huge fan. Brians 7×7 events in NZ were inspired by TED and they still resonate even though today we have TEDxSydney,...
by JAK | May 3, 2012 | big ideas, culture, general business, industry futures
Last year a couple of big finance stories caught my attention. I had just seen the movie Inside Job . What was very interesting to me was the idea that economists and other academics in the finance world had been utterly compromised by the global financial meltdown....
