Digital technology empowers and it destroys. As the legacy silos entrench themselves and become more polar in their approach the silos start to crumble. It happens in business and more of that later. As is incredibly visible right now, it happens in politics. Sometimes those silos are not really about the leader or the policy [...]
Last night on Australian TV's #1 political debate program, the highly innovative Q and A, we saw live TV at its most innovative… audience participation Iraq style…
When young men reach the age of 17, (in Australia) they obtain their driving licenses. Then they buy a cool car (death trap) that isn’t worth the money that they or their parents paid for it. The next three years of their lives are spent “tricking” out the car with the best mag wheels, [...]
The current war in Iraq has been going on longer than World War II. It was 2003 when the US and its allies invaded Iraq. It is now 2010. WWII went from 1939 to 1945 – 6 years. The Iraq war is now over 7 years old. The current government in Australia and the current [...]
The following is about a person and a topic I have written about before… I think that the people, and the time in history are an interesting metaphor for what is happening now politically, economically, and societally. The Story Of A Refugee Have you ever heard of Peter Drucker? He was arguably the [...]
Sometimes it is useful to remember that countries, particularly those countries that see themselves as world powers, have people that sit around and dream about scenarios that may take place… They think of “what if” situations based on the best intelligence that they can get. The best intelligence was clearly not available when the US [...]
Delegates to the ACTA discussions are now safe and sound back in their home countries convinced that they have been successful in aiding in stamping out copyright infringement. History has taught us that every-time the music industry or Government enact prosecutorial or legislative actions against file sharing, the resulting pushback always seems to trump [...]
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 [...]
Some people have attributed to Albert Einstein the concept that “compound interest is the greatest force know to man”. Or words like it. Some years ago in my singularly unsuccessful book, “The Infinite Digital Jukebox” I said that the music business couldn’t fight the two greatest forces known to man – the laws of physics [...]
If you have read Part 1, downloaded and watched the movie – we are ready to explore part 2 if not – then you won’t understand half of the following; We now know about the economic hitmen which are basically the first line of defense – who go in to corrupt foreign government leaders. [...]