It looks like it is going to be a big year. This year I will be back at University Of Wollongong teaching in the Arts Faculty – the same subject as last semester, ARTS301. I had tremendous feedback last semester from students. The subject is really about helping those about to graduate to understand how [...]
In 1993, I wrote a paper entitled, How Ubiquitous Free Communication will Alter the Status Quo. I noted that because of electronic chat rooms [Prodigy, AOL and Compuserve] as more women became enamoured of the connectivity options available to them via a ubiquitous global network, that the divorce rate would rise dramatically. I [...]
According to Secrecy News there is a growing number of patents that are being deemed strategic to national security and therefore being classed as secret. Under the Invention Secrecy Act of 1951, U.S. government agencies may restrict the disclosure of a patent application whenever its publication is deemed “detrimental to the national security.” In Fiscal [...]
Some people are in denial about climate change. But that already puts a pejorative spin on the concept, doesn't it? And some people are in denial about peak oil. As long as you believe in one of the two above read on… Over the next few years we are going to have to solve a [...]
Yesterday, the Australian Reserve Bank increased the interest rate so I brought a bicycle, the first one I have owned since the age of 12, forty years ago. What one has to do with the other is not immediately apparent. Stewart Fisks (UK Independent) column today was about what we at Perceptric have [...]
When Obama was elected in the US a huge sigh of relief could be heard around the world. Now sanity could prevail. The dreaded Bush and Cheney cabal would no longer be in power. And so troops would come home from Iraq and Afghanistan and global warming would be combatted (and maybe even Santa Claus [...]
Today’s “Rant” is about financial mismanagement, misguided economic directions and doom and gloom. There appears to be no way to convince the music business to pull in the reins. Globally, they have done more damage to human rights than Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan ever managed to destroy. With the Global Financial [...]
Translation Inventors are important. Without inventors, we would not know what time of the day it was. (Apart from Paul Hogan.) Visionaries are important too, without visionary explorers like Vasco de Gama and Captain James Cook, we would not be sitting on this huge rock called Australia – we would still be huddled around the [...]
I started subscribing to the Rocketboom RSS feed about 5 or 6 months ago – based on a recommendation from Richard McKinnon, one of the Perceptric partners. As a program is has its ups and downs, but when it is hot, it is really great. And the one thing that Amanda and her partner do [...]