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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…