AI: Artificial Intelligence, or Australia’s Inequality?
The robot revolution is inevitable. In fact, you could comfortably say it’s already upon us. As automation and artificial intelligence evolve at breakneck speed, our policies and institutions are frantically chasing their tails to keep pace. This disruption presents one of the most pointed challenges to modern economies – and Australia is not immune.
You Will Lose Your Job to a Robot—and Sooner Than You Think
I want to tell you straight off what this story is about: Sometime in the next 40 years, robots are going to take your job. I don’t care what your job is. If you dig ditches, a robot will dig them better. If you’re a magazine writer, a robot will write your articles better. If you’re…
Flirting With Ideas
Vienna. 1926 and Slawa Duldig was looking forward to a pleasant Sunday walk in the gardens of the Kunst Historisches Museum, a favourite haunt. Except that the prospect on this May morning with its ominous looking clouds was not so inviting – and so to prepare for the likely showers she took a heavy umbrella with her….
There Are 122 Million Reasons Why The Postal Plebiscite Makes No Sense
This convoluted mechanism is simply a poor tool for our elected representatives to use to avoid taking any real accountability. Subject to a High Court challenge, a national postal ‘vote’ on same-sex marriage is going ahead. An opportunity existed for our government to truly act as leaders, as representatives of their electorates, and to progress…
Artificial Intelligence Will Widen The Gap Between Rich And Poor
In this technological revolution, it’s the low-income earners that will be displaced. Globally, the economic divide is growing. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. In Australia, more than a quarter of households have recently experienced a decrease in income. The reasons for the growing economic divide are many and complex. They include…
TEAM = Together Everyone Achieves More
To genuinely achieve success, it has always been necessary for an organisation to embrace teamwork. As today’s economy places greater pressure upon organisations to be highly competitive, agile and innovative, collaboration has become a vital aspect of an organisation’s practice, requiring teamwork across different job roles, business sites and hierarchies, all to achieve a common…
Agility = The most important word for today’s leaders
Get ready for the future at Creative Innovation 2017 Asia Pacific taking place 13-15 November 2017 in Melbourne, Australia. www.ci2017.com.au Human Intelligence 2.0 – Thriving in the Age of Acceleration “Things are getting better and better and worse and worse, faster and faster, simultaneously.” Tom Atlee
Group Singing: The Future of Humanity
When singing a song together, we become participants rather than observers of others. Singing gives us an opportunity to make ourselves really and truly present. No one has to be a perfect singer, or have the most beautiful voice, to be a part of a music group. As a well-known quotation reads: “The woods would…
13 ways to stay centred in an accelerating world
Everything is accelerating and fear is ruling the planet. We are afraid of terrorists and climate change; deeply uncertain of the economy, our leaders and what the future holds for our work, our relationships and our communities. What we thought we knew is no longer true. Where are we heading?
Loneliness Is The Global Epidemic Of Our Times
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong? The life and death of Eleanor Rigby, in the bleak Beatles song, reminds us that loneliness kills. Recent studies conclude loneliness and social isolation are the next big public health issue, on par with obesity, domestic…
