Month: March 2016
My heart is in Ireland. Mads’s video collection
Rosie is studying at Dublin City University and her talented friend has made a series of videos of their shenanigans… Feb 03 2016 Welcome to Dublin Feb 25 2016 Guiness Storehouse Feb 29 2016 Galway Mar 19 2016 Belfast and back again Mar 27 2016 Paddy’s Day
Honkin’ down the highway. In a minor key
Yoshimi battles the pink robots. Automation is so yesterday
Automation is so yesterday Thomas H. Davenport In 2011, Foxconn Technology Group (iPhone and iPad and assemblers) said they’d deploy a million robots within three years. CEO Terry Gou believed the robots would replace a million workers. In 2015, Foxconn has about 50,000 robots installed, and still employs a million … Continue Reading Yoshimi battles the pink robots. Automation is so yesterday
Making plans for Nigel. Or not
via No One Plans Our World—and That’s a Good Thing – Singularity HUB “If there is one dominant myth about the world…it is that we all go around assuming the world is much more of a planned place than it is.” Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything
Million dollar baby. Incubate pitches
Demo Day Wrap Up: Class 6 Pitches to Potential Investors INCUBATE recognised some of the key achievements of the latest class to undertake the 14-week startup accelerator program at the culminating Demo Day event on Tuesday night (March 22 2016). The event saw a final pitch from each team to … Continue Reading Million dollar baby. Incubate pitches
Trains, brains and rain. Disruptive, whole-systems strategy
As Cure Brain Cancer moves from ‘start up’ to ‘scale up’, CEO Catherine Stace talks through the success of our disruptive, whole-systems strategy. Catherine Stace on LinkedIn
Working in the coalmine. About to slip down
CSIRO report: Tomorrow’s Digitally Enabled Workforce This 112 page (plus research appendices) report examines plausible futures for jobs and employment markets in Australia over the coming twenty years. Whilst Australia’s workforce is continually changing the current period in history is characterised by a combination of forces likely to be associated … Continue Reading Working in the coalmine. About to slip down
Working man blues. Jobs and automation
‘Workers always lose. Economics always wins.’ University of Technology Sydney Vice Chancellor Attila Brungs referenced a video at a conference I attended last year. Humans need not apply doesn’t need much of an introduction but it does flesh out more of the ideas, opportunities and threats inherent in automation, especially … Continue Reading Working man blues. Jobs and automation
This is the 21st century. Jobs and automation
Two recent videos compel me to comment on emerging angst (not just mine) over the future of work. The first is a short film, The last job on Earth, and the second, a call to action by Annalie Killian, founder of the Amplify Festival, on the need to rediscover the … Continue Reading This is the 21st century. Jobs and automation
