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Screen time for kids – the Silicon Valley rich cannot define what works

October 29, 2018 Evan Predavec 2 Comments

There have been a number of articles recently about how Silicon Valley executives limit screen-time for their kids. This needs

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Life in general Politics 

Dear Prime Minister, here’s some emissions maths

October 25, 2018 Evan Predavec 0 Comments

Our Prime Minister is fond of declaiming that Australia accounts for just over one percent of global emissions – and by extension, that it’s

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Life in general Science 

Climate change – we’re lucky we have first-rate intelligences in charge of the country

October 9, 2018October 10, 2018 Evan Predavec 1 Comment

We truly are the lucky country as our Environment Minister is such an extraordinary individual. Apparently F. Scott Fitzgerald said: “The

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Education Life in general 

Phones and schools – get some perspective, you can’t hold back the tide

September 26, 2018 Evan Predavec 2 Comments

It’s funny how quickly we humans come to accept the current state of things as normal. In 2012 mobile phone

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Life in general 

Our obsession with energy costs is irrational and is going to kill us

August 29, 2018 Evan Predavec 0 Comments

Why have we become obsessed with the cost of energy to households? Obsessed to the point that the noise drowns

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Life in general 

Disruptive intermediaries squeezing everyone else to make an unsustainable business

August 9, 2018August 9, 2018 Evan Predavec 1 Comment

It wasn’t that long ago when disintermediation was all the fashion in business. Businesses were keen to work directly with

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3D printing Life in general 

You don’t need a 3D-printer to make a gun

August 2, 2018 Evan Predavec 1 Comment

All the current kerfuffle about 3D-printing guns is really missing the point. I wrote about this last back in 2013

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Judging student IT competitions

November 30, 2015March 17, 2016 Evan Predavec 0

Student competitions involving coding and technology are proliferating. They are a fine, fine thing and a great way to incentivise

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It’s a crime to be a woman on the Internet

June 18, 2012June 22, 2012 Evan Predavec 2
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Technology and ethics: pretend someone is watching

June 15, 2012June 22, 2012 Evan Predavec 8
When maps lie, and why it matters
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When maps lie, and why it matters

May 23, 2012June 22, 2012 Evan Predavec 3
Why LEGO costs more in Australia
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Why LEGO costs more in Australia

May 21, 2012June 22, 2012 Evan Predavec 19
Teach kids to type, and they’ll have all the fish they want
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Teach kids to type, and they’ll have all the fish they want

May 2, 2012June 22, 2012 Evan Predavec 5

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