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Technology trends

a blog by Dr Hugh Bradlow

Latest 'Technology trends' blog entry

The hyperbole of the internet

Dr Hugh Bradlow

“Engineers don’t lie”: In his blog “The hyperbole of the Internet”, Telstra's CTO Dr Hugh Bradlow respectfully explains why recent claims by a Skype executive about VoIP are a gross exaggeration.

I was recently at the Future in Review conference where Mark Anderson (the well respected head of Strategic News Service) made a comment that “engineers don’t lie” (in the context of the Global Financial Crisis). I guess that is why so few of us are in marketing at Internet companies. Let me hasten to add, that my colleagues in marketing at Telstra ensure that they validate their marketing claims by discussing them with the engineers first. I can’t speak for what happens at other companies.... More...

 

Previous 'Technology trends' entries

Technology in 2030: Part 3

Forecasts and predictions are always dangerous because often they don’t envisage the impact of disruptive technology. Reputedly IBM chief Thomas Watson declared in 1943, "I think there is a world market, for maybe five computers...". Disruptive technologies are those that don’t meet mainstream needs today but are developing so fast that they soon overtake the current technologies of the day. More...

Augmented reality

To go back to my 2030 theme, like Martin Luther King, “I have a dream”. My dream is somewhat more prosaic than Dr King’s but I hope that one day as my ageing brain gets wearier I shall be able to use technology to augment its capability. Read more... More...

Setting the record straight

Leslie Nassar, who recently was outed as being the 'Fake Stephen Conroy', has tweeted today that he has been fired. More...

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