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Posted onOctober 29, 2020December 31, 2020Original post

Breakthrough means an army of tiny robots is coming

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A breakthrough by researchers means that one day in the not too distant future, I will likely stare out of my window as it is…

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Posted onSeptember 26, 2020December 31, 2020Original post

Timing the next breakthrough

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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…

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Posted onAugust 25, 2020January 1, 2021Growth

Looking beyond growth

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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…

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Posted onJuly 25, 2020December 23, 2020Innovation

Collapsing power distance to support innovation

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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…

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Posted onJune 23, 2020August 13, 2021Cloud

The digital infrastructure we really need

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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…

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Posted onMay 29, 2020January 5, 2021Original post

The pandemic-driven business shifts

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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…

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Posted onApril 26, 2020January 5, 2021Original post

Contact tracing is a digital vaccine for COVID-19

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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…

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Posted onMarch 29, 2020December 31, 2020Original post

It’s not lonely being a robot anymore

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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…

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Posted onFebruary 27, 2020December 27, 2020Original post

Ideology versus insight

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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…

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Posted onJanuary 30, 2020January 5, 2021Original post

Bridging themes for the 2020s

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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…

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