This month I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech to open the Earth Digital Twin Workshop organised by JAXA (Japan’s national space agency)…
There is no doubt that 2023 has been the year that AI, through Generative AI, has truly captured public imagination. As we wrap-up the year,…
Readers of this blog who are under 30 may not even know what a cassette tape is! But when they appeared in the 1970s, they…
Last month I talked about what artificial intelligence needed to be useful. I also talked about AI being smart, but I should also have qualified…
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The great attraction of fossil fuels is their huge energy density. Burning a kilogram of oil can produce 40 to 50 megajoules of energy to propel…
We love to hear from smart pigs! We empathise with Wilbur in Charlotte’s Web as he risks being turned into bacon and we understand the worst…
I’ve recently spoken to several executives who have more than two thousand unread emails. They all said roughly the same thing: “If someone really wants…
The future of work is the topic on everyone’s lips. We’ve gone from worrying about whether our children will have jobs to worrying about our…
When an employee leaves one organisation and moves to another, they are not allowed to take the property of their first employer with them. That…