Tag: Realpolitech

Can Australia become a green data centre power?

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
In a recent interview, the outwardly mild-mannered former Google chief executive and chairman Eric Schmidt made some bold statements. He revealed that ‘his friends” at the forefront of artificial...

How Australia’s village culture is strangling our future

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
Australia is a highly educated, ethnically diverse and resource-rich country with 159 billionaires; $3.4 trillion in superannuation savings; a $22.7 billion Future Made in Australia policy; a $272 billion...

Forget the AI bubble, it’s hydrogen that has burst

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
In a world reeling from massive technology-driven systems change, investment bubbles in new new things that are billed to be Holy Grail solutions to wicked problems are both features...

Australia is making a mess of its industry response to AI

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
There is chatter going around the Australian software sector that the federal government has conducted extensive polling to gauge Australians attitudes to generative AI. The chatter says the polling...

The take-off is already wobbly for FMIA moonshot

Posted on   |  by Sandy Plunkett
There are many unanswered questions regarding the viability of the new era of state-led, taxpayer-funded green industrial policy that has become de rigueur in Australia and much of the...