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Tattooed Fruit. Coming To A Store Near You. Soon
26 June 2013 — Random Thoughts

Tattooed Fruit. Coming To A Store Near You. Soon

While society has largely arrived at a place where we accept tattooed human beings, how long before you accept tattooed fruit?

Human Intelligence Stems from a Single Algorithm
24 June 2013 — Creativity

Human Intelligence Stems from a Single Algorithm

If you're remotely interested in Artificial Intelligence then the headline of this post will have captured your attention.

Remember when Amazon only sold Books?
20 June 2013 — Disruption

Remember when Amazon only sold Books?

We all watched and wondered if Amazon could make any money? For years it didn't! Not until the fourth quarter of 2001.

Make Anything with Fab@Home
18 June 2013 — Education

Make Anything with Fab@Home

I sent an email off to the principal of my children's school this morning, saying the school definitely needed one of these

Will Machines and Robots take over your Job in the Future?
12 June 2013 — Disruption

Will Machines and Robots take over your Job in the Future?

Opportunities for freeing up space for us to do new things is tremendous, but there are some serious challenges to be solved in a 'New Machine World'

We've Lost The First Web Page
3 June 2013 — Random Thoughts

We've Lost The First Web Page

Great story on Mashable around the first web page being lost (for now). Here's the closest copy of the original pages of the World Wide Web.

Robots Will Overtake Humans by 2100
23 May 2013 — Exploring the Future

Robots Will Overtake Humans by 2100

While it's tempting to dismiss this as science fiction in 2013, there are signs of this inflection point all around us

The Exponential Change View of the Future is Invalid
7 May 2013 — Disruption

The Exponential Change View of the Future is Invalid

If the change we're experiencing is not larger than ever before, then we run the risk of over-estimating the change or the pace of change we're going through

The Rapture of Being at Work
4 March 2013 — Culture

The Rapture of Being at Work

We don't play enough at work, and when we do, it always has to be attached to a business outcome or objective, or even worse we rename it with something business sounding.

The Bad Relationship between Company and Employee
27 February 2013 — Culture

The Bad Relationship between Company and Employee

Organisations would be better off taking a page from a good 'how to love' book, rather than a clever 'how to tell people who you are in 7 words' book.

Ode to Joy (an example of play for play itself)
21 February 2013 — Play

Ode to Joy (an example of play for play itself)

Here's a beautiful Flash Mob video clip from YouTube that illustrate 'play just to play'

Why Can't Business Play?
18 February 2013 — Play

Why Can't Business Play?

It struck me the other day that I seldom, if ever. have heard a company talking about how they play