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…
Voyager 1 has ventured farther than any human-made machine, now over 25 billion kilometres from Earth, drifting through the vast emptiness of interstellar space. Since…
An aging population, automation, and housing shortages aren’t just tomorrow’s challenges; they’re today’s blind spots. It is ironic that just as many, if not most,…
I’ve been writing this blog since 2010. In that very first post, I quoted figures estimating the content of the Internet had reached 487 billion…
It’s time to reduce our working week, and we can achieve it by better directing our technology to benefit society. Pioneering economist, John Maynard Keynes,…
If you’re reading this, it’s very likely that you are at least vaguely interested in technology. It’s even possible that you get a bit excited…
During my last trip on the London Underground, I was struck by the remarkable achievement of the nineteenth-century engineers who built its first Metropolitan Railway…
You enter a special type of hell when you are about to press “buy” and the website makes you register for an account, or when…
We like to think we are in control of our destiny. However, decades of research into chaos theory and behavioural economics should have taught us otherwise. There…