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Job creation, innovation and the Apple iPad
Category: Blog/Analysis
It was a speech much-awaited, driving speculation and controversy before it even started. No, not Steve Jobs in San Francisco but Barack Obama in Washington. It has been a bad few weeks for the US President. ... Thursday, 18 March 2010 -
Africa, prosperity and its ever-seeking union
Category: Blog/Analysis
In 1940, in order to put a warm glow over their war efforts, the Japanese Imperial Army announced that the reason they were hacking their way through Asia was the pursuit of a Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity ... Thursday, 04 March 2010 -
And the eyes are always on us
Category: Blog/Analysis
“One can't help thinking wistfully of our father's day, when the world hadn't grown so small. But one could move about in it without being watched so closely. Nowadays, we're treated like demented or delinquent ... Thursday, 25 February 2010 -
Copenhagen, Consensus and The Gathering of the Trees
Category: Blog/Analysis
“The trees gathered to agree a response to the growing threat of the Homo sapiens,” said the story-telling old lady who waylaid me in a park. “After several weeks of debate had passed, up rose Sam Sequoia ... Thursday, 18 February 2010 -
The World Cup is further away than many thought
Category: Blog/Analysis
Europeans are waking up to the realisation that South Africa is not Germany. “The short haul meant thousands of supporters were able to make last-minute trips to Germany and they discovered excellent ... Thursday, 11 February 2010 -
Promoting Innovation is more than tilting at windmills
Category: Blog/Analysis
What would you expect to see if you walked into a roomful of successful innovators? Would you expect them to dress the same? Have the same haircuts, or the same educational background or ethnic or cultural ... Thursday, 04 February 2010 -
The infinite size of an infinitely sliced fish
Category: Blog/Analysis
Port Nolloth’s heyday as a hub for the transhipment of diamonds and copper is long over. Nowadays the small town near Springbok supports a little bit of tourism, and a small fishing community. A fisherman ... Thursday, 28 January 2010 -
Countdown to Lift - The Race to Build a Space Elevator
Category: Blog/Analysis
LiftPort has a clock counting down to 27 October 2031 on their website. The US-based company believes that, on this date, they will achieve the construction of a space elevator. The concept was first ... Thursday, 21 January 2010 -
Getting democracy right one restaurant at a time
Category: Blog/Analysis
You’re going to find this outrageous. Last week, the wife and I went out for dinner to a new restaurant in our neighbourhood. The food was awful and the service insulting. Afterwards a few of the patrons ... Thursday, 14 January 2010 -
Predicting the future isn't what it used to be
Category: Blog/Analysis
There are certain things we know. There are certain things we don’t know. We know how many people there are. We know the likely fertility rate of those people. We have an idea of mortality, both infant ... Thursday, 07 January 2010 -
Nestle, Mugabe and the Devil’s Alternative
Category: Blog/Analysis
Residents of Sakhile township in Standerton, Mpumalanga, have celebrated their grievances against their elected officials in the traditional way: by setting fire to businesses. It is tough running a ... Thursday, 31 December 2009 -
And then there were Twenty
Category: Blog/Analysis
Large global organisations are notoriously inefficient. Detractors like to accuse them both of forming shadowy international conspiracies that threaten the Earth, to being incompetent, incapable and corrupt. ... Thursday, 24 December 2009 -
Kenya and the mixed expectations of technical investment
Category: Blog/Analysis
The wealthiest Kenyans are barely distinguishable from the poorest South Africans, yet East Africa is now a flurry of excitement as investors congregate. In August, the first of three major undersea ... Thursday, 17 December 2009 -
Self-sufficiency implies a tolerable level of dead babies
Category: Blog/Analysis
In 1967, President Julius Nyerere of newly independent Tanzania, announced the Arusha Declaration. In it, he described a new African Socialism and the imposition of self-sufficient collective farming ... Thursday, 10 December 2009 -
The delicate subject of patents
Category: Blog/Analysis
Obesity is proof, if ever we needed it, that human beings have an innate lack of understanding of how much the society in which we live has changed. Our evolutionary antecedents lived in a world of uncertainty ... Thursday, 03 December 2009 -
A return to subsistence farming won’t aid economic recovery
Category: Blog/Analysis
Being a child in the world’s poorest nations is not idyllic. Widespread poverty means that many have to work to support their families. This limits their access to education and damages their health. ... Thursday, 26 November 2009 -
American healthcare reform is merely a warm-up for the rest of us
Category: Blog/Analysis
Those opposed are accusing US President Barack Obama of attempting to set up death committees to kill the aged. Those in favour suggest that their opponents are delusional traitors. Welcome to the debate ... Thursday, 19 November 2009 -
Getting the most out of a toaster
Category: Blog/Analysis
Those in the market for a new household toaster are spoiled for choice. There are colours and styles to suite all tastes and budgets; from the cheapest Sunbeam at around $10, right through to the epically-priced ... Thursday, 12 November 2009 -
Cash for junk, will it revive economies?
Category: Blog/Analysis
The global economic crisis has created a cascade of financial problems. Banks won’t, or can’t, lend. Consumers move to protect their incomes and stop spending. Retailers order less stock and lay off ... Thursday, 05 November 2009 -
Protestors demonstrate nothing but their limitations
Category: Blog/Analysis
“Why has your factory been so neglected? They’ve turned it into a rubbish dump. Why was everyone running around like cockroaches before my arrival? Why was no one capable of taking decisions?” demanded ... Thursday, 22 October 2009
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