An innovator for the ages
Professor Mark Dodgson, director of the Technology and Innovation Management Centre at the University of Queensland, nominates Josiah Wedgwood, founder of the Wedgwood Company, as one of the greatest...
View ArticleNanotechnology may save us, but not without help
In imagining the world in 50 years time, I see many innovations in technology that will have helped us achieve more secure and sustainable energy, and water supplies. They will influence cleaner,...
View ArticleLiterary predictions
Janice McAdam from Sydney has degrees in physics and children's literature and calls herself a 'lapsed physicist'. Today she talks about the genre of science fiction as a prediction into the future.
View ArticleEdison the organizational innovator
Professor Mark Dodgson from the University of Queensland talks about the achievements of inventor Thomas Edison. He also tells us about some of the less pleasant aspects of Edison's life, i.e. his lack...
View ArticleScience in public ain't pretty
The heavy movers of Australian science sat down to morning tea this week. The Prime Minister, the federal Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research and Australia's chief scientist had...
View ArticleThe lawn
Sydney-based science writer Peter Macinnis talks about the history and culture of lawn maintenance.
View ArticleRetro revenge
Melbourne author Andrew Herrick talks about the fact that most of us are obsessed with anything new on the market, can't wait to buy the latest gizmo and are only too ready to discard anything that's old.
View ArticleOccupational health invention
As a young man inventor Michael Gill worked with his father in a lead oxide factory during the holidays, with his face strapped inside a leaking, smelly and claustrophobic mask. This experience led him...
View ArticlePatentable subject matter
Patent Attorney for ResMed, Paul Green, discusses the issue of what's patentable and who should be granted a patent.
View ArticleBringing hope through technobabble
Advancing technology should focus on increasing access rather than curing individual impairments, writes Craig Wallace.
View ArticleThoughts on innovation
Dr Sarah Pearson from the Australian National University believes that the word 'innovation' is so over-used these days, that it somehow lost its edge. Many things which are called 'innovative' are...
View ArticleAmazing invention to help with floods
So I had one of those half-awake dreams over the weekend where I invented a something amazing. I was thinking of the flooded Queensland homes and all of the furniture and appliances being thrown on to...
View ArticleGreenDream technology contest: best answers and winners announced
ABC Environment teamed up with Technology and Games to ask people what would be their ultimate green technology. The two best answers would receive signed copies of Tim Flannery's new book, Here on...
View ArticleHow to improve Formula 1
Formula 1 is going backwards in terms of engine revolution. How about switching to hydrogen fuel cells and adding sound effects? This might be the worst idea ever.
View ArticleThe celestial bed
Medical historian Dr Jim Leavesley from Margaret River in WA tells us about the life and strange ideas of Dr James Graham, a medical entrepreneur and self-styled sex therapist. In 1773, after returning...
View ArticleWhat's walking got to do with it?
Are we a culture obsessed with our legs? If the media reporting of Rob Summers is anything to by, I'd say the answer is a firm yes.
View ArticleFree-market babies?
Does India need a new independence struggle? The fight this time would not be against British colonialism, but rather against the United Kingdom's approach to regulating reproductive medicine.
View ArticleCompulsory imagination
David Astle from Melbourne is a crossword maker and today he talks about the art of designing and solving crossword puzzles.
View ArticleBest of 2011: Does scientific inquiry preclude belief in God?
Because of the distortions of Christianity's detractors, it is important to reappropriate the contribution of Christians to the development of science in order to retell the story of science and...
View ArticleRay Kurzweil
From heavy brick-sized mobile phones to multi-functional smart phones - technology has developed with an astonishing pace and one of the modern drivers of this race is Ray Kurzweil, one of Americas...
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