Sep 24, 2020 | Business & Economics
By Gilbert Wong The technology behind cryptocurrency is going to change the way the world handles information. The tale of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica data scandal has all the ingredients of a Hollywood potboiler: dirty politics, faceless consultants for hire and...
Jul 20, 2020 | Science & Technology
By Gilbert Wong The streams here are small and New Zealand is supposed to be clean, but the levels were the same as the Danube and the Rhine. Nadezhda Dikareva is an expert in something she wishes she didn’t have to be. Arguably she is the most knowledgeable person in...
Jun 24, 2020 | Business & Economics, Politics & Society
By Gilbert Wong Can we grow organisations and work that support a sustainable world? The answer comes from understanding our deepest psychological drivers, according to Niki Harre. Let’s play the word association game. Money, status, competition, power and...
Jun 17, 2020 | Business & Economics, Science & Technology
By Gilbert Wong A general purpose AI is inevitable and New Zealand could lead the way as the nature of work is transformed. When is too much knowledge a bad thing? According to the International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers there are...
Jun 17, 2020 | Science & Technology
By Gilbert Wong Robot caregivers can help maintain independence as we age, but the trick is getting humans to trust them. It will not surprise those with a pessimistic view of humanity to know that even robots suffer racial prejudice. In a study by German researchers...