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Posted onOctober 25, 2025October 25, 2025Disruption

Ghosts of MySpace

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The internet’s story is one of amazing revolutions that no one recognises until it’s too late.  Once, Telnet ruled, a text-only frontier where each server…

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Posted onSeptember 24, 2025September 24, 2025Original post

Web3’s second act

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Do you remember when Web3 was everywhere?  Facebook even renamed itself Meta to prepare for a future where the metaverse would replace the browser.  The…

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Posted onAugust 23, 2025Disruption

Decoupling revenue from cost

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NVIDIA is doing something remarkable, selling silicon chips at prices unimaginable a decade ago.  Artificial intelligence has decoupled demand from cost for a company built…

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Posted onJuly 20, 2025July 20, 2025Space

Orbiting on a thread

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It’s winter in Australia, and I’ve just returned from a week walking the icy trails of Tasmania, a picturesque escape that I highly recommend.  Part…

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Posted onJune 21, 2025June 21, 2025AI

Don’t tax productivity

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In the late seventeenth century, England’s King William III tried to fix his budget by taxing windows.  It wasn’t completely illogical, wealthier citizens had bigger…

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Posted onMay 24, 2025AI

When translation falls short

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I have the privilege of working across Asia Pacific, which I would argue is the most exciting, dynamic and diverse set of economies in the…

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Posted onApril 24, 2025AI

Agentic elephants

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Ask ChatGPT how to boil an egg or write a limerick, and it will usually do a fine job.  Ask any large language model to…

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Posted onMarch 22, 2025AI

Less is more

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Voyager 1 has ventured farther than any human-made machine, now over 25 billion kilometres from Earth, drifting through the vast emptiness of interstellar space.  Since…

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Posted onFebruary 22, 2025February 22, 2025AI

When AI writes itself

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We are not just fascinated by artificial intelligence itself, but by the idea of AI that can adapt and evolve on its own.  This self-driven…

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Posted onJanuary 11, 2025January 11, 2025Original post

The real subscription trap

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For the last couple of decades, business schools and investors have sung the praises of the subscription economy, a strategy hailed as the holy grail…

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