I took part in a really interesting workshop yesterday – at NICTA. Which by the way is now one of the largest R&D labs in the world, with over 600 PhD's, I believe, doing hard core research.

Its theme was to help create a vision of what would be driving ICT technologies in 2020.

Very interesting group of people there, including Dean Economou, Bruce McCabe, Ian Allen, and Joanne Jacobs along with David Skellern, Terry Percival and numerous others.

The one thing that I took away from this was the overriding concern from everyone in the room for sustainability. That is: that we have to make massive changes societally as well as technologically. Everyone in the room, I believe, saw this need. So creators of new technology have to ensure that there is dialogue with and attention to communities, lawmakers and media.

Tim Churches, who was there, said, “Technology is the new politics”. Interesting stuff, indeed!

(By the way, the event was excellently facilitated by Rhett Sampson)

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