I ask this question in part because of my recent experience with crowd funding, the idea behind crowd funding is to…
Why the rich get richer and the poor poorer
Luck determines the winners and losers of society, not merit or hard work. Those that start out with more get…
Fluid writing
Lets just imagine I want to create a new style of writing one without the old syntax and apostrophes but…
HyperNormalisation: New doco from Adam Curtis
Adam Curtis dissects the political malaise we have been lead into. There are no new grand ideas just crisis management.…
Computers are taking our jobs – again
There’s been a lot of chatter in the media recently about AI (Artificial Intelligence), mechanisation, and driverless cars taking all…
Cybertopia – what the world will become
Cybertopia is a brilliant look at the world silicon valley wants to make. Burning man mixed with hippies and then…
Contented progress (wellbeing)
I want to propose an idea that can make us contented (happy), imaginative, and progressive. Some may say contentment with…
Sleepers went back to work
Recently I have been reading Barry Jones’ Sleepers Wake – Technology and the future of work, written in 1982 it…
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…