Screen time for kids – the Silicon Valley rich cannot define what works
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
Dear Prime Minister, here’s some emissions maths
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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Climate change – we’re lucky we have first-rate intelligences in charge of the country
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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Phones and schools – get some perspective, you can’t hold back the tide
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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Our obsession with energy costs is irrational and is going to kill us
Why have we become obsessed with the cost of energy to households? Obsessed to the point that the noise drowns
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Disruptive intermediaries squeezing everyone else to make an unsustainable business
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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You don’t need a 3D-printer to make a gun
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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