by JAK | Oct 16, 2012 | big ideas, culture
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....
by JAK | Oct 8, 2012 | TEDx
Here are a selection of TEDxAuckland 2012 speakers photos taken by me on instagram from the audience with no flash on an iPad. They appear in order of their appearance on the day. Many of the photos were tweeted on the day and the last 1 was on an iphone as the...
by JAK | Jun 6, 2012 | big ideas, music, TEDx
I heard Linh speak in Sydney a week or so back and she is now 21 and still going strong. Here she is at TEDxChCh – Linh Do – Defying Social Norms for Social Change – from Oct 2010. “In this talk, Linh Do asks some important questions: What is...
by JAK | May 19, 2012 | big data, big ideas, TED
Imagine you never stopped learning and that every so often a friend, educator, health professional or heaven forbid – some bloke on Facebook gives you feedback on something that they think you need to change – what do you do? Lets assume this is medical...
by JAK | Feb 7, 2012 | big ideas, culture, industry futures
As promised I finished reading Jeffrey Sachs – “The Price of Civilization” – Economics and Ethics After the Fall. The book was an easy read but at the end of it left me feeling somewhat underwhelmed. Rebooting the US economic and political...
