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…
Early movies about computers treated them as oracles. From WarGames to 2001: A Space Odyssey, the computer sits out of sight producing answers from thin…
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…
This month I had the privilege of speaking at an event focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, organised by SEVENTEENx. The topic couldn’t have…
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…
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…
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…