When Pigz Fly

Yep, it’s coming. The university I graduated from, the Australian National University is making great achievements in quantum computing – at least piece of it.

They’ve got pretty cool facilities, I’ve toured them during my first year at uni while still deciding if I’d chosen the right degree for me. I ended up with a Commerce degree, that’s another story.

What’s more interesting is the potential application for teleportation, I told you so – all those people that didn’t believe me. I knew they started this research way back.

Further Reading:
Australian scientists may have worked out the mystery of teleportation
Scientists to scale up quantum data breakthrough

Google Wave is a new revolutionary way to communicate and colaborate. This thing is awesome you have to watch the video below from Google I/O 2009.

It’s cool how Google have made this open so that organisations can host their own Google Wave server. This is set to put a ding into Microsoft’s Exchange server – that’s only for starters. You’ll know what I mean when you watch the demo.

I just switched to history channel and Nostradamus 2012 is on. It’s pretty distrubing stuff. Many end-of-world predictions have come and gone uneventful, but this particular date (Dec 21, 2012) is surrounded with a worrying amount of scientific backing.

Kind of makes you think through all the issues. Keeping with the theme of my blog – I want to focus on our dependence on technology. We are completely surrounded with technology down to the very ‘insignificant’ toaster most use in the morning. They say we are going to have significant shift in cosmic activity – the Sun’s activity will peak around the 2012 date and we are sure to suffer disruption with all our technical systems.

Given the end isn’t a ‘big bang’ and we continue on this path of gradual climate change, natural disasters, disease and the rest – what can we do to survive and manage the risks associated with technological disruptions? I don’t think we are going to just give up.

How many people in their everyday contingency planning and risk management duties take into consideration such events? Are we still sceptical about such predictions and should we be changing our attitude? What can we really do and is it worth it?

That said, what worries me most is famine, extreme famine to the point where even plant species become extinct so we don’t even have the option of going back to basics. Maybe a topic for another time.

So this is my new blog.  I hope to use it to post my ideas, thoughts and comments on happenings in the Media and Technology world.

I am very passionate about media and technology, I am an entrepreneur that primarily focusses on these areas and currently working on an exciting project for the Asia Pacific region.  It involves Internet Protocol TV (IPTV).

IPTV is really interesting – it involves so much and allows me to work on IT, Telecom and Broadcast Media all at once.

I always have opportunities both work wise and investment wise (for any investors reading this) – do contact me if you are interested in exploring them with me.