Things are changing – fast! And governments are starting to understand what the music industry is still struggling to come to terms with, having been exposed to P2P: They can not control the pace of change. And they are starting to get scared. So they should do. This then is the digital paradox. On one [...]
I am on a panel talking (briefly) about the future of TV this coming Saturday. It is at the Paddington Town Hall from 12 noon. I am on the side that is arguing for the proposition that TV is Dead. It is free, so if you want to come along and either cheer or hurl [...]
Here are some more thoughts on something I blogged earlier: I don't know if you have noticed, but I certainly have. Over the last week or so there has been a rising tide of government rhetoric that is tantamount to the Howard message, “We are alert, but not alarmed”. I am not sure what sources [...]
We are surrounded by change and it is accelerating. The media continues to beat the global economic crisis to death and bit by bit, we are all becoming inured to the concept that things are in a terrible state. The problem is that when you hear people trying to lift our spirits by being optimistic, [...]
The other day I said that it was an American recession and not an Australian problem. Three things happened yesterday that radically altered my perception. One involved my neighbour, Ron the second involved my uber geek friend from Europe and the third, an Australian edict to stockpile food. . Stockpile Food For a [...]
I have blogged about trend forecaster, Gerald Celente, before. This is what his current view is – a snapshot of today taken from 2012. This really is quite serious. We are all being warned of what may very well happen. And in a globalized, flat world, we have to remember that what is happening in [...]
Kleiner Perkins have been one of the hottest and most astute Venture Capital companies in Silicon Valley. Today, they announced a 200 million dollar fund to invest in fighting pandemics, like bird flu. SARS, Bird Flu, Ebola are the new disease fronts of the 21st century. Moving aggressive VC money into play offers the fastest [...]
Another women died in Indonesia of bird flu. 6 deaths now, 42 reported sick, total confusion reigns. Australia is helping. The UN says its 80 mill short of the 100 it needs to fight bird flu. Meanwhile, 14 Russian towns are in quarantine. A race for a H5N1 vaccine goes on as Iran and the Philippines become [...]
Bird Flu's been gaining a head of steam, unseen by the major economies of the world and fundamentally ignored by the news media. Bird Flu or H5N1 is a strain of flu that has mutated from birds; chickens, ducks, geese, fowls across the species into humans. Somewhere, there's been an exchange of genetic material and the flu has mutated [...]