I was planning a quiet meal at home yesterday when I got a call from BBC World Service Radio. The producer of World Have Your Say had just read my article Olympics and World Cup Big Events Waste of Tax Payers Money and wanted me to contribute to the... Read More
Growing Human Population Could Lead to Soylent Green Future
The 1973 Film Soylent Green predicts a future world in the year 2022 where the stark landscape has been cleared of vegetation, temperatures are sweltering, mass extinction of flora and fauna means there’s no fresh food and the masses inhabiting... Read More
Future of Business, Holiday and Military Aviation
The world has recently been focused on the last NASA Space Shuttle flight STS-135. Back on Earth the combination of cost cutting airlines and government obsession with security theatre is making flying frustrating and uncomfortable with pat downs and... Read More
X Media Lab – Imagination, Science Fiction and Planning for the Future
X Media Lab is an internationally acclaimed digital media think-tank and creative workshop which has a strong presence in emerging powerhouse creative and business markets like China and the Middle East. They organise conferences bringing people from... Read More
Electric Cars – The Future of Australian Motoring? (GEARE #64)
With all the buzz surrounding cars like the Mitsubishi i-MiEV, the Nissan Leaf and Tesla Roadster, not to mention hybrid petrol-electrics like the Toyota Prius and Honda Civic Hybrid, you’d think that electricity-powered cars were a relatively recent... Read More
Electricity Usage Meter Cuts Electricity Bills and Helps Environment
GUEST ARTICLE: Imagine if your grocery shop had no prices marked on the shelves and they simply billed you with a lump-sum statement every quarter. Yet, this is how most households and businesses pay for their electricity consumption. Using Power... Read More
Surveillance Society: CCTV Cameras Everywhere Dont Make Us Safe
Cameras are fast becoming commonplace fixtures on our streets, our public transport and even in our workplaces. Some argue that these cameras are a necessary and effective crime reduction tool. But are they actually as effective as people claim? Or do... Read More
Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil (ABC TV DVD Review)
Ever thought about where the petrol in your car’s fuel tank comes from? That’s where the story of “Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil” begins around 160 million years ago in the area now known as the Middle East, which was then covered by... Read More
How To Think Like a Futurist (Craig Rispin at Gartner Symposium)
I had a press pass to the 2010 Gartner Symposium/ITxpo and specifically made time to attend Craig Rispin’s session “How To Think Like a Futurist as I’d heard he had some thought provoking ideas to share. He made a lot of good points... Read More
Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives (Book Review)
I recently read a very interesting book Internal Combustion: How Corporations and Governments Addicted the World to Oil and Derailed the Alternatives as part of background research into a feature article I was writing about Electric Cars for GEARE... Read More