Category Archives: Culture

Is your mobile making you dumb?

Posted on Sep 4, 2012 by sim

Could your mobile be blamed for making you dumber? Maybe, and that’s not the half of it – it could kill you. Or, rather, it would be more accurate to say that your obsession with your mobile is what can … Continue reading →

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Second impressions on Australia

Posted on Feb 7, 2012 by sim

Curiously, there’s no phrase “second impressions”, so what comes after first impressions? Noting that I wrote a couple of posts about first impressions of Australia some 2½ years ago ([1], [2]), it’s time to take stock of some cultural and … Continue reading →

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Review: The End of Growth

Posted on Sep 20, 2011 by sim

Almost a year ago, I read Tim Jackson’s Prosperity Without Growth that discussed the necessity of devising a financial system that isn’t dependent on economic growth. Again returning to the topic, I just finished Richard Heinberg’s brand new book The … Continue reading →

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Backwater Australia – or maybe not?

Posted on Jul 9, 2011 by sim

There is a general consensus or at least an attitude in Europe that Australia is quite a bit behind in most, particularly technological, things. However, there was also a general consensus in Europe that it was leading the mobile devices … Continue reading →

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We’re letting a serious crisis go to waste

Posted on Nov 14, 2010 by sim

“Never let a serious crisis go to waste.” A lot of people have come up with the basic notion, but White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel was one of the most recent famous persons to invoke the basically valid … Continue reading →

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