Intelligent versus Aware
The drive for artificial intelligence needs to consider the purpose for having intelligence. Being clever for clever’s sake has limited practical applications.
Can a robot become conscious?
On reversing the Turing Test: If you believe you are communicating with a conscious being and then discover it is a robot, do you stop believing?
Global Mayors and Smart Cities
What are the challenges facing large cities over the next 50 years, how will cities becomes ‘smarter’, what risks do digital technologies introduce, and will a global parliament of mayors help or hinder?
Mobile Knowledge
A short presentation looking at the impact mobile devices are having on learning, knowledge sharing and organisation structures
Knowledge challenges authority
When information becomes readily available to anyone interested and willing to study the details, the ‘professional – citizen’ relationship changes
Redefining Jobs
Doom and gloom scenarios about technology eliminating jobs misses the point. Since when was it mandatory for some humans to be nothing but a ‘resource’
Degrees of Social Capital
To be a responsive and productive organisation increasingly requires faster and more effective communications between people, leading to the rise of the enterprise social network
The Value in Mobile Economic Time
Mobile economic time can increase productivity. Enabling us to act at times and locations that were previously inaccessible. The biggest challenge: a hierarchy that requires permission to act
‘Bring your own… Everything!’
What if an organisation replaced all enterprise productivity tools with alternatives provide by consumer-based online services. i.e. the software and services used for work around the edges of formal business systems. Activities that have traditionally involved email, phones and Office suites Read More
Eliminating unemployment
One of the challenges facing unemployed people dependent on welfare is that the system assumes work is stable and long term. That may have been true in the past… Read More
Joining Dots 