culture, featured, music, TEDx, video
Omar Musa captures downtown with words
Omar Musa gave an electric poetic performance at TEDxSydney 2013. What I loved most about his talk is that his poem sounded like a conversation at first but then with the skill that only comes from a master wordsmith he worked up a series of vivid pictures as he shared characters and ideas in a [...]
big ideas, featured, TED, video
Progress Paradox debate – Gordon, Brynjolfsson
Here is the actual debate between Gordon and Brynjolfsson from TED 2013. Towards the end it goes in some surprising directions. Gordons first question relates to artificial intelligence and single purpose machines. The rebuttal is that machines solve problems in a different way. The goal is not to mimic human intelligence to offer tools Brynjolfssons [...]
big ideas, featured, TED, video
Robert Gordon on the end of growth at TED 2013
Here is the Prof Robert Gordon TED2013 talk on the end of growth which was answered by the Erik Brynjolfsson counter view (posted on last week.) Then the two of them had a 12 minute debate. The first point I noted is that instead of the 6 headwinds the presentation is now about 4 headwinds. [...]
big ideas, culture, featured, industry futures
The Continuing Collapse of the Middle Class
Back in 2007 law Professor Elizabeth Warren gave a talk on “The Coming Collapse of the Middle Class”. Last November Warren was elected to the US senate and now quite predictably some of her academic work has come under the microscope. Whenever anyone mentions the word “class” the risk is that the analysis gets lost [...]
big data, big ideas, featured, TED, video
Racing with the Machine – Productivity & Growth
At the 2013 TED conference there was a debate between Prof Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson (director of the MIT Center for Digital Business) on the future of work. I have written before about Gordons theory but here is a great way to work through some counter arguments. Erik makes a number of great points [...]
RECENT VIDEOS
Click below to view videos...
big data, big ideas, featured, TED, video
Racing with the Machine – Productivity & Growth
Posted on 26 April 2013
At the 2013 TED conference there was a debate between Prof Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson (director of the MIT Center for Digital Business) on the future of work. I have written before about Gordons theory but here is a great way to work through some counter arguments. Erik makes a number of great points [...] Continue Reading
culture, featured, industry futures, TED
Progress Enigma or is it a Paradox? – TED2013
Posted on 27 February 2013
Progress Enigma was the title of a debate shared at TED 2013 a few hours ago. Economists Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolfsson debated the future of work. The paradox of our technology enabled times is that (despite the writing having been on the wall for decades ) we are still surprised, shocked and disappointed when [...] Continue Reading
big ideas, featured
Is Solar Power for Home Practical for NZ?
Posted on 04 January 2013
Many NZ consumers will be wondering if solar power for the home is a practical option. In simple terms despite New Zealand having mostly renewable energy our power costs to the home have continued to climb in the past few years despite low inflation. In real terms power costs have pretty much doubled for me [...] Continue Reading
big ideas, development, featured
The Six Headwinds slowing Innovation down
Posted on 06 December 2012
Earlier this year I came across a slide show by economist Robert J Gordon in which he talks about the end of economic growth. The slideshow I have was titled “Is U. S. Economic Growth Over? Lessons from the Long 20th Century” and it spells out his view that economic growth is over. Later he talks [...] Continue Reading
big ideas, TED
Daniel Kahneman on thinking fast & slow
Posted on 05 June 2012
I have been waiting all my adult life for Kahneman’s “Thinking, Fast and Slow” book. Anyone who can link the world of psychology and economics is a hero to me. For Daniel to research along these lines for 40+ years – a Nobel prize doesn’t quite seem enough recognition but Amos Tversky (who died in [...] Continue Reading
big data, big ideas, featured, TED
The Ultimate Infographics are here now
Posted on 02 June 2012
One way that newspapers and other media try to manage a lot of information is by making an infographic or diagram. This type of visual “map” often helps the media to convey complex ideas more quickly and makes it easier for most of us to process. Unfortunately many of these infographics are becoming quite cluttered [...] Continue Reading
culture, music
On a Slow Boat to China
Posted on 19 November 2012
Mainstream TV in New Zealand seems to think that besides cooking shows, building renovations and talent shows we need to see X factor, Idol, the Voice and various other talent shows. Luckily there is lots of great music around and if you have ears to hear it is easy to find. Luke Thompson has been [...] Continue Reading
big ideas, culture
Politics as universal comedy
Posted on 16 October 2012
In a few weeks it is Presidential elections in the U.S. The choice there is between a President who has done very little to change the daily lives of US people and a candidate who intends to ignore most ( about 47%) of the population and further dismantle the state. Part of the problem for [...] Continue Reading
culture, music
What’s so funny about Mental Health and Understanding?
Posted on 12 October 2012
This week in New Zealand and 149 other countries around the world it is Mental Health Awareness Week. The theme this year is : Depression: A Global Crisis For very many reasons it is tricky to talk about mental health because many people don’t know what is going on and even when they do getting help may [...] Continue Reading
big data, TEDx
TEDxAuckland Radio Interviews
Posted on 05 October 2012
Over the past few weeks a number of the TEDxAuckland 2012 speakers have talked with National Radio. Here are Sean Gourley, Assil Russell and Matthew Simmons radio clips. TEDx talks on the day are limited to 18 minutes each so these extended radio clips give more background. “New Zealand-born physicist Sean Gourley on the mathematical [...] Continue Reading
culture, industry futures, TEDx
The Optimistic Economist – transparency in trade
Posted on 05 October 2012
Andrew Stoeckel at TEDxCanberra caught my attention when he noted that: “A 1% increase in the rate of trade to GDP leads to a 2-3% increase in income per person” …. Taking the long view, Andrew examines the three pillars of prosperity – productivity, trade and property rights, focussing on trade and why it functions [...] Continue Reading
culture, industry futures, TEDx
TEDxCanberra Videos Up
Posted on 04 October 2012
Stephen Walkers talk at TEDxCanberra a few weeks ago was very challenging. He goes through some scary numbers that illustrate the paradox of living in a time of great wealth but at the same time there are so many living in poverty. What do Australians give to charity? Only 34 cents in every $100 is [...] Continue Reading
culture, TEDx
TEDxAKL totally rocks – on Sat 6th Oct
Posted on 03 October 2012
Some readers will know that I am a key helper on the TEDxAuckland event coming up next Saturday. We will have 17 talks of 18 mins each. If you dont have a ticket yet you should make sure not to miss out go here to buy. I am an ideas person and so the prospect [...] Continue Reading
big ideas, culture, TEDx
The Dunedin Study
Posted on 16 September 2012
Back in July I went down to Dunedin (1100k South) to TEDxDunedin for an evening. One of the speakers was Professor Richie Poulton who is director of the Dunedin Study. “The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study Members are the 1037 babies born in Dunedin, New Zealand between 1 April 1972 and 31 March 1973 [...] Continue Reading
big ideas, culture, TED
Is Healthcare heading for a Perfect Storm?
Posted on 09 September 2012
Last year I was listening to a tech software guy talk about healthcare budgets and how that was shaping up as the perfect storm for the sector. It is an important problem for our society and raises a whole range of ethical and practical questions. The key idea is that overall our health is better [...] Continue Reading
big ideas, culture, TEDx
TEDxCanberra on today
Posted on 08 September 2012
Over in Canberra it is almost time for TEDx - the full programme is here Sessions are split into 4 sections, Observe, Consider, Decide and then Transform – nice Great to see that Nobel prize winning wine maker Brian Schmidt is doing another talk. I was lucky enough to hear him at (video from) TEDxSydney earlier [...] Continue Reading
-
CATEGORIES
- applications (16)
- big data (13)
- big ideas (140)
- blogging (7)
- crmthinking (14)
- culture (111)
- development (15)
- featured (40)
- general business (27)
- idealog (13)
- industry futures (83)
- music (24)
- online marketing (16)
- swimming (3)
- TED (41)
- TEDx (40)
- this blog (9)
- video (12)
- WordPress (13)
What we do
- * thinking - & ideas into action
- * customer alignment
- * celebrate community
- * transformational change
- * product development
Custom Search
-
ARCHIVES
- May 2013 (1)
- April 2013 (4)
- March 2013 (3)
- February 2013 (6)
- January 2013 (8)
- December 2012 (10)
- November 2012 (3)
- October 2012 (11)
- September 2012 (4)
- August 2012 (5)
- July 2012 (11)
- June 2012 (12)
- May 2012 (10)
- April 2012 (3)
- March 2012 (2)
- February 2012 (2)
- January 2012 (2)
- December 2011 (2)
- November 2011 (1)
- September 2011 (1)
- July 2011 (1)
- March 2011 (2)
- February 2011 (3)
- January 2011 (5)
- December 2010 (3)
- November 2010 (2)
- October 2010 (1)
- September 2010 (5)
- August 2010 (8)
- July 2010 (1)
- May 2010 (2)
- April 2010 (1)
- December 2009 (2)
- October 2009 (1)
- August 2009 (1)
- July 2009 (3)
- June 2009 (6)
- May 2009 (5)
- April 2009 (4)
- March 2009 (1)
- February 2009 (4)
- January 2009 (2)
- December 2008 (2)
- November 2008 (6)
- October 2008 (8)
- September 2008 (4)
- July 2008 (3)
- June 2008 (1)
- May 2008 (2)
- April 2008 (5)
- March 2008 (1)
- February 2008 (3)
- January 2008 (3)
- December 2007 (2)
- November 2007 (2)
- October 2007 (5)
- September 2007 (4)
- August 2007 (8)
- July 2007 (7)
- June 2007 (5)
- May 2007 (2)
- April 2007 (3)
- March 2007 (4)
- February 2007 (4)
- January 2007 (2)
- December 2006 (2)
- November 2006 (2)
- October 2006 (8)
We like these
SEO Book –
Copyright © thinking: relating- celebrating :-).Original News Theme by 
.