Speaking at the opening of the SingularityU Australian Summit, I made the case that exponential change is really a series of overlapping S-curves. And just…
It is time to put our COVID-strengthened digital muscles to work to improve today’s industries and create new ones for tomorrow. Through the last decade,…
Both alchemists and investors have long searched for the elusive formula to create gold from base materials. In recent decades the base has been silicon…
I had the opportunity this month to open the Australian Financial Review’s Innovation Summit. This is what I shared as the innovation imperative: Today, as…
Mobile and cloud computing has enabled remote work in a way that would have been unimaginable even a few years ago. The opportunity to add…
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…
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…