Not every breakthrough idea succeeds, otherwise we’d use SixDegrees.com rather than Facebook and Sinclair’s C5 would have pioneered electric vehicles. Our world is dominated by…
Thomas Midgley discovered that adding lead to a vehicle’s fuel dramatically improved its performance. Unfortunately, the side effects soon became clear and Midgley, keen to…
Nearly 15 years ago, I led a global data management team that was highly credible but had a problem. We and our competitors had data…
It is good that our political leaders are talking about investing in large amounts of infrastructure to kick-start the economy. However, that infrastructure needs to be…
The short-term impact of COVID-19 is undisputed, what is not yet clear is the long-term changes that the pandemic will have wrought on the world…
A vaccine could be the knock-out punch in our war with COVID-19 and let us move beyond the lockdown nightmare that has so suddenly and…
Two years ago, I wrote about the loneliness of being the only virtual participant in many international meetings. For years I’ve fought against the constant…
The overwhelming geopolitical narrative of the twentieth century was the collision of ideologies. Entire nations operated for the better part of one hundred years as…
Although it is tempting to look at the new decade through lens of technology predictions, it is much more interesting to think about the future…
As the year comes to a close, I’m very proud to share that I have been selected to be the new chair of the Australian…