Category: Innovation
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Schools of the Future
Schools Today The modern school as we know it was designed to provide workers for the expanding paradigm of the Industrial Revolution. That is, the first Industrial Revolution. We are now up to the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. So how well are we doing three Industrial Revolutions later? First…
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GPS to 10cm
GPS History GPS started with Sputnik. This was covered really well by Steven Johnson in his book on “Where Good Ideas Come From“. Here is a summary. The basic plot is easy to understand. Smart people work out how to use existing stuff to do extraordinary things with it. While he starts with English…
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Wearables – A History
Wearables started when? The buzz technology of the past 18 months has been Wearables which is short for Wearable Technology. So when exactly did Wearable Technology begin? Like most overnight successes, it started a long time ago. Below is an infographic from http://www.visualcapitalist.com/the-history-of-wearable-technology/ that is an excellent overview of the topic, with some notable exceptions…
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CEDA – Meeting the Innovation Challenge
CEDA and Australia’s Innovation Challenge CEDA, or the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, run regular industry sessions to discuss topics of national economic importance. The latest was a lunchtime session covering the benefits of Innovation and also some of the challenges we need to overcome to take advantage of Innovation in Australia. …
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Trajan – Innovation In Action
Innovation In Australia I had the opportunity to take part in an Innovation session run at Trajan Scientific and Medical. This covered both the Innovation philosophy they operate under and also included a site tour and explanation of the practical aspects of building highly collaborative relationships. Disruptive trends Autodesk presented a session on trends at…
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PACE Zenith Awards 2016 Winners
We Won Best Networking Implementation You might have read our post on being finalists at the PACE Zenith Awards 2016. Tonight we won the Best Networking Implementation award for 2016. Our Congratulations also go to IND Technology. Their Early Fault Detection product was the design we won this award for. If you are wondering…
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SEBN – South East Business Networks
SEBN One of the key statistics about the Australian business landscape is that we are last in the world for collaboration. All sorts of collaboration. If you doubt this, just think about how much political collaboration you see here compared to overseas. The video above is a series of snippets covering why SEBN is…
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Predicting the Future
Predicting the Future How hard can it be. Surely everything follows on from everything else? This is what was behind Sir Isaac Newton’s proposition that if we work out the equations of the universe and plug in the initial conditions, we can predict everything. And so science became the new religion of western society.…
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Australian Technical Events 2016
2016 Australian Technical Events My thanks go to Paul Daniels of Circuit Challenges and LC Circuits for preparing most of this list and to Joseph Madeley of IDC Technologies for details on their events. International Conference on Computer Modelling and Simulation 18-19 Jan 2016 Brisbane LINUX Conference 1-5 Feb 2016 Geelong Interactive Entertainment Conference 2-5 Feb 2016…
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Where Do Good Ideas Come From
Good Ideas This is a core problem in the Innovation Space. How to have a Good Idea? Steven Johnson has covered this topic in an entertaining and informative TED Talk titled, “Where Do Good Ideas Come From“? Enjoy. At least one aspect presented was a surprise to me. And then, having…