Recently I have been reading Barry Jones’ Sleepers Wake – Technology and the future of work, written in 1982 it foresees a post service work environment, technology will have saved us from much toil and we will need a guaranteed income for all (similar to my Flat Payment) to provide for all those who are not employed with the means …
The fallacy of Shareholder democracy – the owners are all opaque holding companies
Elected governments really don’t have much power any more because they have ceded most of it to corporations which we believe we control through share ownership but we are hopelessly wrong. Corporations are some of the few organisations that have true global influence so if we were to have a global democracy we would want them in our power …
Driving the Flinders Ranges SA
This film was taken from the front of a VW Passat as I drove the tracks east to west through the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. Along the way I encounter emu and kangaroos. Wait the the creek bed which is part of the track, the escarpments are some of the oldest rocks on earth. David Campbell
Jim Sullivan –“UFO”
In 1969 the brilliant and enigmatic singer songwriter Jim Sullivan released what may be a prophetic album UFO. In 2010 a reissue of UFO was released by Light in the Attic an American Reissue label that specializes in obscure albums. The boffins at Light in the Attic spent some time trying to locate the original Master tapes but unfortunately after …
A personal story of the inter-web – it’s not as old as you think
I just read an article online which stated the internet has been around for 30 years, and for many much shorter. This got me thinking. Thirty years! I don’t think its been around that long. I’m 41 and can remember playing the first video game “Pong” in black and white on a TV with a brown and white probably …