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Year: 2021

Posted onDecember 17, 2021April 29, 2022Original post

Turning convention on its head

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By the 1980s almost every airline around the world was using technology to manage their customers and meet their increasing security obligations.  These were the same…

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Posted onNovember 20, 2021November 20, 2021Original post

Protecting the digital child

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This month I was invited to participate in the Royal Society of NSW (RSNSW) and Learned Academies Forum on the topic of the “power and…

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Posted onOctober 27, 2021October 27, 2021Original post

Carbon rationing versus breakthrough tech

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We are all wondering what our carbon future will look like.  I must admit that I anticipate the years ahead with a mixture of excitement at…

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Posted onSeptember 22, 2021September 22, 2021Original post

The digital productivity rules have changed

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Every now and again the rules change, creating new winners and losers with the associated social disruption.  This is one of those times as the boundaries…

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Posted onAugust 29, 2021January 5, 2024Original post

Flipping data privacy on its head

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We have all been creeped-out at some point by an ad for a holiday, car or something else that we’ve not even discussed outside the…

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Posted onJuly 25, 2021July 25, 2021Original post

Preparing for Q-Day using Vernam, Miller and Shamir

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As experiments with quantum computing progress, the security of the Internet is at risk. Whenever we click “pay” with our credit card, use a password…

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Posted onJune 27, 2021June 27, 2021Original post

From Starfish to the Zozosuit, the importance of objects in a digital era

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Object-oriented programming is an approach that treats both logic and data as content that can be morphed, shared, and inherit attributes almost organically from ancestor…

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Posted onMay 25, 2021May 25, 2021Original post

Proof of stake may close the circle

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Anyone who has sent or received an international cheque, been a victum of fraudulent payments from customers or tried to find a safe place to…

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Posted onApril 27, 2021April 27, 2021Innovation

Picking the next S-curve

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Perseverance is one of the most important attributes of successful executives. Almost every business objective is met with a myriad of obstacles which require persistence…

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Posted onMarch 25, 2021November 20, 2021Original post

Learning from superheroes

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Speaking at the opening of the SingularityU Australian Summit, I made the case that exponential change is really a series of overlapping S-curves. And just…

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