Two posts in one day, woah! I was out hanging out the washing, as you do, when the call came from Lisa in the dining room “We are being skyped!” “What’s skyped?” asked Annabelle, sensibly. “It’s like a phone over the internet”, I replied. Well, as I entered the house the excitement around the laptop [...]
Posts Tagged ‘technology’
New world, soon to be old world
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged papa, technology on February 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Murdoch’s musings – Boyer lecture 2
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged human captial, Murdoch, technology on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Murdoch (never my favourite former Australian) mused about technology in the 2nd Boyer Lecture for 2008. He suggests ‘whingeing about the technology will get you nowhere.’ The only way to beat it is to get out in front of it (slight paraphrase). Technology is destroying the business models which we have used for decades. TV [...]