SWB = Solar, Wind and Battery Abundance

SWB = Solar, Wind and Battery Abundance

From RethinkX “”We are on the cusp of the fastest, deepest, most profound disruption of the energy sector in over a century. Like most disruptions, this one is being driven by the convergence of several key technologies whose costs and capabilities have...
The Myths of Automation or AI Again?

The Myths of Automation or AI Again?

To even the most casual reader it seems like every day there is a news story about some wonderful thing that AI is doing for us or perhaps doing to us and we should be very wary because this is a bad thing and so on. The need to have a story angle for much of the...
Bring back the social contract

Bring back the social contract

Just because we can do something is not a great argument for doing that particular thing. I’m thinking that the current monopoly of the online universe by Google and Facebook in particular is being distorted well beyond what we altruists ever imagined. In a...
Social Meh dia

Social Meh dia

I was tagged into a discussion of social media recently and I realised that while there are many self proclaimed experts a lot of population is swimming in social without much insight. For a couple of years I hosted a course on digital marketing at a local educational...
Thinking the Elon Musk way

Thinking the Elon Musk way

Elon Musk has a way of thinking about first principles and solving problems that is absolutely gobsmacking brilliant.  Just a few weeks ago Elon had a wide ranging conversation with Chris Anderson at the latest TED conference. Instead of talking about Tesla they...
That problem doesn’t mean what you think it means

That problem doesn’t mean what you think it means

There was a fascinating story about rats the other day. Rats are linked to many problems caused in the human population. We generally think we know what those are. Man v rat: could the long war soon be over? Rats spread disease, decimate crops and very occasionally...