When Japan opened the Tokaido Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, it seemed obvious that both cities would benefit. Osaka was already the commercial…
Society has always been uneasy about new ways of working. Way back in the sixteenth century, painters began experimenting with the camera obscura. Not a…
It is 1940 and a future giant of science fiction, Isaac Asimov, is just 20 years old. The son of Russian immigrants, he grew up…
I sometimes begin workshops by auctioning a one-dollar coin. The rules are simple. The highest bidder wins the coin and pays whatever they bid. The…
My first job was as an eleven-year-old paperboy, hauling bundles of the local newspaper around a country town three nights a week. At the time,…
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The words we choose do more than describe reality. They shape what we are able to see. Some language brings problems into focus while other…
A small dip in graduate employment and suddenly the media shouts that the robots are coming for the entry level jobs. For students approaching graduation,…
The discussion about Sovereign AI is suddenly everywhere. It appears in government strategies, policy speeches and vendor roadmaps, almost always framed as an urgent national…
There are as many definitions of innovation as there are new ideas themselves. At its core, innovation means finding a new idea or approach to…