Projected international population change

If you have not yet watched the documentary by Shaw (2025), Birthgap , I strongly recommend it. I felt it connected many disparate elements ...

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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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'Peak' smartphone

Statista's predicted global smartphone users by 2020 (2017) On LinkedIn recently I read a curated news post asking if we had hit ...

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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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Google Trends

Oo - I have rediscovered a lost toy! For those of you who thought that Google Trends was no longer available, you can have the same exci...

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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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"Say it with [plants]"

Extracted from (Brown, n.d.). I used to send flowers to friends, family and clients for special occasions, but I don't any more. I...

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What's happening in Leadership?

I was asked recently by a former colleague about what was new and happening in leadership. A leadership scholar famously said once that th...

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Newsletter Issue 232, March 2013

Sam Young Newsletter Issue 232, March 2013 Hi guys, What new trends have you spotted? See if you have anyth...

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