For me, Soylent is one of the most interesting startups in the world, right now. It is a Silicon Valley food company, looking to revolutionise the global food industry. Their mission is to provide maximum nutrition with minimum effort. The first generation of Soylent’s products launched commercially in May last year, as a powdered meal […]
The Impact of Artificial Intelligence
By July 29, 2015 1 Comment
I had a great conversation last week on my local BBC Radio station about Artificial Intelligence (Link here Starts at 9:50 mins). For me, this is one of the most underestimated technologies in the world right now. Very few people understand what is possible today and what is becoming possible in the very near future. […]
The Consciousness Revolution
By June 10, 2015 14 Comments
I am unapologetic utopian. I have complete faith that we can collectively create an incredible world in a relatively short period of time. The truth is – we have to. Humanity stands on the edge of the abyss. We face huge existential threats now: from the impending collapse of the global currency system, to the […]
The Skunk Works
By April 22, 2015 4 Comments
To take bold steps, to achieve audacious goals, and to cope with rapidly changing times – for me, every organisation, and individual, should be creating their own skunkworks. What do I mean by ‘skunkworks’? To explain its name, I need to go back to World War II. As air battles raged and America felt the […]
Is Monogamy Bad For Your Health?
By April 15, 2015 15 Comments
It has been a while since I have written a post that takes me beyond my own comfort zone. It may take many others beyond theirs, as well! Not since I took on writing on the subject of religion have I felt challenged like this. Monogamy and marriage are, for the majority of people, an […]
The End Of Government?
By March 18, 2015 10 Comments
There is a really interesting debate going on in my island nation community of Guernsey at the moment. There is large review of government tax and spending. There is a suggestion that the cost of government will need to move from 25% to 28% of GDP. Our government rightly argues that ours is already one […]
The Global Brain
By February 18, 2015 1 Comment
Something that has fascinated me throughout my life is the human mind. One of the real tragedies I have discovered is that the human mind holds us back more than anything else. The human mind has not had a serious upgrade in over 50,000 years. No matter who we are, how powerful our position or […]
Learning from the very edge
By January 28, 2015 3 Comments
Just over two years ago, I saw an image that transformed my thinking on education and altered the course of my life. It was a picture of an 8 year old girl teaching a Biotech class to adults. The reason she could teach it is because she started learning about the subject 6 months beforehand. […]
The Shift from Wealth to Impact
By January 15, 2015 6 Comments
“If you are giving back, then you took too much.” These are my favourite words spoken at TEDGlobal by the genius maverick entrepreneur Ricardo Semler. I also reflect on the words of Peter Diamandis (Co-Founder of Singularity University and The X-Prize) at the recent Singularity Summit in Amsterdam: “If you want to make a billion […]
A Journey Into The Unknown
By October 22, 2014 6 Comments
On the 3rd of August 1492, Christopher Columbus set sail with 3 ships to discover a Western trade route to the East. Interestingly, his journey was the result of a miscalculation that the world was smaller than it actually was. If not for the existence of the New World, they would certainly have all perished. […]