Isn’t it amazing that in a world in which so many things are so obvious, so many people keep on ignoring the signs. When there is so much momentum for change so many people keep thinking “same”. Steve Jobs had a great instinct for the signals of change and the way that one mans infrastructure [...]
Last Thursday I went our for my morning walk with my wife, Robyn. She told me that we had a problem with our washing machine. She thought that the motor had given up the ghost. We have had it for some time so we decided not to bother with calling a repair man and to [...]
People invariably don't understand how marketing works. Even marketers don't understand. They think that if they buy more spots on TV, make a harder hitting ad, they will sell more product. They think that if they shout louder, they will get their ideas across more effectively. The reality is that they marketers are generally like [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Most people in this world are regulated by their immediate needs and the stimuli that they receive from the media around them. They go to work to make enough money to pay for food, shelter, and sex – living examples of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. And media is so pervasive that we rely on it [...]
Given the attention of Governments to file sharing, it would appear that the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) was obviously caused by you sharing a copy of Lily Allens “Fuck you very much”. We have Ministers flying all over the world to discuss how to criminalize 15 year old kids who can’t yet vote. These [...]
Introduction For those that havent read the first article in this group – I highly recommend it for complete understanding of this article. ACTA – the Number of the Beast or 1984. http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/4/11/4150002.html There is a strong presumption in US law favoring openness of government documents for a reason: People have a right to know [...]
In the beginning man hunted for his livelihood with club, spear and rocks. Now man hunts for his livelihood by trying to ensure that he can retain what is his, against all comers. Any successful business is based on disrupting existing business models. Today, it is no longer sufficient to be good at what [...]