There is NOTHING like access to HIGH-SPEED and RELIABLE broadband infrastructure. I have NOTHING like access to HIGH SPEED and RELIABLE broadband infrastructure. A small rant regarding my network access today...... I have been involved, both personally and professionally, in the planning and development of information and telecommunications projects for Education, Business and Communities for almost 30 years. Most recently,…
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Telepresence has taken many forms over the years, Education, Health, Emergency services have all experimented with various iterations and combinations of form-factors and bandwidth. I have been involved in many promising, yet ultimately doomed trials and implementations. The team at Double Robotics appear to have something genuinely innovative, well designed and most importantly, practical. Combining the mobile utility of a…
The greatest policy challenge of our (or anyone's) lifetime. Australia recently experienced its hottest day since records began a century ago. The national temperature is the average of hundreds of daily readings across the country and it hit 40.3 degrees. Australia's first six days of 2013 were all among the hottest 20 days on record in terms of average maximums…
Watch this Rook closely. It is playing. It is having FUN. http://youtu.be/3dWw9GLcOeA Sensory consciousness in Birds? A fascinating field of research in to the human brain, machine learning and the nature and purpose of consciousness. Where does consciousness come from? And does it exist in other animals? Nicholas Humphrey, Professor Emeritus of the London School of Economics, Darwin College Cambridge,…
Merry Christmas and Peace to all. http://youtu.be/LDuQ3PiHCsg From this distant vantage point, the Earth might not seem of any particular interest. But for us, it's different. Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The…
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Just simply an outstanding example of technology and resource transfer between a Bank [BankMecu] and a Not-For-Profit organisation [ Alternative Technology Association - ATA ] to support sustainable development East Timor [Timor-Leste] is one of the poorest countries in our region. At present, only 20 per cent of the population have access to mains electricity, and communities in remote areas are not…
Can a 3D printer cool the Planet? Stay with me on this.. As we once again hear that the 1990 IPCC Climate modelling for the planet is "on trend" or "coming true", I ponder the relationship between some of the major policy challenges Australia faces and see opportunity where at present we seem only to be experiencing confusion and much…