Hospitals today are awash with technology: for communication for people and asset tracking; for patient treatment and monitoring. Many of these products don’t talk to...

Healthcare in a crystal ball: Bioprinted body parts and more

2019-06-14

Bioprinted ovaries to cure infertility and bioprinted kidneys for those on dialysis, waiting desperately for a kidney transplant – those were just two of the...

Queensland: Claiming eHealth leadership

2019-06-14

Bruce Linaker is the acting CIO of Queensland Health and the acting CEO of eHealth Queensland, a unit created to provide technology solutions across Queensland...

Health data: Why it’s good to share

2019-06-14

Andrew Morris, director of Health Data Research UK, closed his keynote speech at this month’s eHealth Expo Queensland with a headline from the Wall Street...

Nanosatellite hopefuls eyeing IoT opportunities

2019-03-03

Research firm NSR said last November that small satellites are a $37 billion market and it expects 6,500 satellites to launch by 2027. The firm...

My latest blog posts

Remember the information superhighway?

2019-11-04

This is the second of two articles marking the 30th anniversary of the Internet in Australia. This one looks at the idea of ‘The information superhighway’...

Internet in Australia — the early years

2019-11-01

Here are some highlights from the early years of the Internet in Australia, as reported in Exchange. Last night, 31 October I had the pleasure of...

Wanted: a moral compass for AI developers

2019-10-31

Australia’s chief scientist is warning AI developers to retain a “moral compass’ and not to treat human beings as ‘data points’. That warning comes way...

Will the government realise the agricultural potential of IoT?

2019-09-11

When it comes to the agricultural potential of IoT the Australian Government just does not seem to get it. A 2015 report and a 2016...

Huawei homes in on 6G

2019-08-27

Back in December 2018 I wrote a blog: “5G is passé. 6G is coming!” observing that, although there had been little mainstream mention of the...

The smart city will know who you are and where you are

2019-07-08

Smart Cities World reported recently that Somerville in Massachusetts had become the second US city, after San Francisco, to ban the use of facial recognition...

Smart cities & open data: who will the winners be?

2019-05-10

Harbor Research has published a white paper The Future of Open Data in Smart Cities. It does not put the giants of IT in pole...

When Society 4.0 meets Industry 4.0

2019-05-03

Swinburne University and Amazon Web Services are collaborating to help understand, and anticipate, the societal impacts of Industry 4.0, aka Society 4.0. Last week, at...

Sydney Uni startup looks to automate farming

2019-05-02

A new startup spun out of the University of Sydney is looking to capitalise on a growing workforce shortage in agriculture, worldwide. Put “aging agricultural...

Are foldables all they’re cracked up to be?

2019-02-15

A Washington Postheadline of January 21 proclaimed: “After years of rapid growth, the global smartphone market is slowing as consumers wait for the next game-changing feature...