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Previous Columns

From 1960 to 2060

When I was a kid there was no Flash RAM, there were no microcomputers, no integrated circuits, and you'd not even have been able to find a transistor radio anywhere in the house...

Broadband - are we being gouged?

Just by chance, last night I caught an ad on the SBS channel which was promoting a DSL2 package offered across the ditch by Aussie ISP TPG...

Martin Jetpack about to be usurped?

The Martin Jetpack seems to have had an awfully long gestation...

Revealed: Cost of no NZ KBE? Billions!

Just yesterday I read a news story that indicated the cost to the nation of those who leave the country with their skills is around $12K-$14K per year in lost taxation and other value...

Why artificial light is like money

I keep hearing that the good old incandescent bulb is dead and that the more energy efficient alternatives can slash our energy needs...

Oh please, cry me a river

In case you hadn't noticed, the recording and movie industries seem to be doing very nicely of late...

Buy now: helium futures

Call me a visionary but it seems that I was three and a half years ahead of my time when I wrote this column back in early 2007...

The internet: king-maker, nation-builder?

When I first encountered the internet, way back in the mid 1990s, even I didn't have a full appreciation for huge effect it would have on the world less than two decades later...

Is analog computing about to make a come-back?

Although most of the time, when asked to think of the first computer I ever built, my mind casts back to the collection of logic gates, memory chips and the feeble microprocessor that I threw together in 1977, there was a system I built some ten years before that...

Is hi-tech making us dumber?

The older I get, the more I realise how little I know...