Your World in 2030
The latest post by Steve Sammartino
Ten years is not a very long time, but in a world of exponential technology, a lot can happen. So I thought I’d provide some predictions for the world by 2030. Thirty of them, to… [ READ POST ]
The Gap in the TV Market in Australia
March 29, 2019
Sometimes we look at the world and ask why a certain thing doesn’t exist. We wonder why all the current options are so terrible. Especially when the thing that doesn’t exist is at the centre… [ READ POST ]
Food, Data and Modernity
March 25, 2019
People are driven by scarcity. Things of value, with limited availability, drive a strong desire for more. Information used to be like that. We had very few channels for accessing knowledge. It used to be… [ READ POST ]
The Other 1 Percent
March 14, 2019
Ferrari sales in Australia are up 17% on last year. While new car sales are down 3 percent. A new Gulfstream private jet has a 2 year wait list. By all accounts the one percent are… [ READ POST ]
The Secret Innovation Budget
March 7, 2019
Research & Development and Marketing traditionally lived in different worlds. R&D for innovation purpose happened in secret, in the lab, while Marketing was mostly just advertising. The advertising itself? Well, that was generally about convincing… [ READ POST ]
There’s only one real world
February 28, 2019
It’s very hard to understand the consequences of something when you can’t touch it, feel it and experience it in the physical form. Many of our virtual experiences seem displaced from a physical reality. It’s… [ READ POST ]
A New Retail Dynamic
February 21, 2019
Whenever we go on the internet to check out how much something costs, we expect that it could change by the day, the hour or even the minute. Heck, it feels like they put the… [ READ POST ]