We have a new essay published in Deloitte Insights, A moral license for AI: Ethics as a dialogue between firms and communities. This collaboration with CSIRO’s Data61 looks into the challenge of creating ethical AI, picking apart the problems and proposing a way forward. There’s a launch event on the 2nd of September, 2020, which you can register for via Zoom.
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How has technology development changed the nature of society and the economy?
On bland economic models and the colonial mindset
A team at Harvard has released a new version of the Atlas of Economic Complexity, an index of ‘economic complexity’. Journalists have pounced on the model to make that case—as they often do—that Australia is a second class country run by second rate politicians. The problem is that the model seems rather bland, only proving that Australia is a large country with a small population (and correspondingly small market) a long way from the major markets. We already knew this.
Continue readingThe future of retail: The need for a new trust architecture
Deloitte ran a series of breakfasts recently for the retail community, and they kindly asked C4tE to participate. My contribution, which you can find at Scribd or embedded below, […]
Continue readingOur Economic Future: Driving Innovation Through Better Public Policy
The following are the notes I pulled together for the first panel in ADC‘s Future Summit on Monday September 28th. The major opportunity for Australia is to find […]
Continue readingRedefining education
Our relationship with knowledge is changing, and consequently our relationship with education is changing. The snappy version of this is “Why remember what you can google?”. The longer story has interesting implications for the education sector as is changes what it means to be educated.
Continue readingThe Big Shift: A Social Revolution
I gave a short Lightning Talk on The Future of Business” last Tuesday 17 February as part of the Insights & Innovation Lab, run by VicHealth and Vicsport. You can find the slides below. This was the first event in the lab’s Forward Thinking series.
Continue readingThe car you just bought is the last car you will ever own
What happens when if you consider a car an accessory for your phone, rather than
Continue reading90% of sales are in bricks-n-mortar stores, but many are dying anyway
The stats are in and the rush to declare bricks-n-mortar retail dead appear to be a bit premature. While online commerce appears to be growing […]
Continue readingThe Shift Index in Slides
I’ve taken the time to create a summary of the Shift Index as a handful of slides, and dropped the slides into SlideShare. The question […]
Continue readingThe myth of sustainable competitive advantage
I’ve mentioned to a few people that I was unimpressed with The End of Competitive Advantage by Rita Gunther McGrath. I’ve even be so impolitic as […]
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