New wave in battery power

There was an exciting announcement before Christmas last year about new battery technology coming from IBM. From what I have read, it appe...

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AI and the sky's a-falling 2

Henny Penny; Jacobs (1890, p. 182) I have written on this topic before ( here ), but thought I would touch on another couple of issues a...

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AI and the sky's a-falling 1

Jacobs (1890, p. 182) Gosh, we humans are slow to recognise patterns. Once we all worked at home doing the menial labour on our tiny lan...

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Flexible extension screens

At the 2019 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in the USA, A4 flexible screens were featured by a company called Faytech ( here ). The touch...

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Universal Basic Income Pilot Study

NZ native tree showing epiphytes in symbiosis. In the past I have written about universal basic incomes (here and here ). I had thought...

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Benefits of Self-Drive Vehicles

Recently I watched a video by Continental (GaadiAdvisor, 7 October 2017), with their view on what the future will look like with autonomou...

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3D printing will drive some major disruption

(Amazon, n.d.) 3D printing will drive some major disruption, severely impacting many industries as large scale and increasingly complex ...

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21st Century Careers

Boston Dynamic's dogbot " BigDog" at work, reconnoitering new territory. Some years ago, I had a work colleague ask me, du...

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