How Not To Be Seen
I: The Comfy Chair Back in 1978 – when I was just fifteen – I begged my parents to let me enroll in a course at the local community college (the equivalent of TAFE) so that I could take ‘Data...
View ArticlePaperworks / Padworks
I: Paper, works At the end of May I received an email from a senior official at the Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. DEECD was in the midst of issuing an RFP, looking...
View ArticleThe Soul of Web 2.0
Introduction: In The Beginning Back in the 1980s, when personal computers mostly meant IBM PCs running Lotus 1*2*3 and, perhaps, if you were a bit off-center, an Apple Macintosh running Aldus...
View ArticleThe Blueprint
With every day, with every passing hour, the power of the state mobilizes against Wikileaks and Julian Assange, its titular leader. The inner processes of statecraft have never been so completely...
View ArticleHyperdemocracy
For the past three hundred years, the relationship between the press and the state has been straightforward: the press tries to publish, the state uses its various mechanisms to thwart those efforts....
View ArticlePeople Power
Introduction: Magic Pudding To effect change within governmental institutions, you need to be conscious of two important limits. First, resources are always at a premium; you need to work within the...
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The Social Sense
I: On Top of the World I’ve always wanted to save the world. When I was younger, and more messianic, I thought I might have to do it all myself. As the world knocked sense into me, I began to see...
View ArticleHyperconnected Education
I: Connect / Disconnect Recently, I had the opportunity to teach a lecture at the University of Sydney. I always consider teaching a two-way street: there’s an opportunity to learn as much from my...
View ArticleHypereconomics
What happens after we’re all connected? When I asked that question, seven years ago, well over eighty percent of all Australians had their own mobile, and the bulk of the nation had signed up for...
View ArticleFlexible Futures
I: A Brief Tour of the Future During my first visit to Sydney, in 1997, I made arrangements to catch up with some friends living in Drummoyne. I was staying at the Novotel Darling Harbour, so we...
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