CNN BUSINESS CEO of the Year Satya Nadella He doesn’t act like a rampaging schizophrenic in the media. He hasn’t climbed aboard his personal phallic symbol for an attention- seeking orbital joy ride. And he has no intention of threatening to climb into a cage to exchange blows with above-mentioned schizophrenic. But what Satya Nadella […]
John Smeddle
The heat has been ferocious. The cold was clearly imported from deep space. UV indicators were so bad you could get skin cancer just thinking about them. Climatologists had a record year for grumpiness. And the carbon footprint is taking on Sasquatch proportions. Our planet in 2023 was hotter, colder and less protected than any […]
A woman 99.9% of us have never heard of, has just died. Yet what we owe her is incalculable. You see, NASA Shuttle Mission Specialist Mary Cleave didn’t use her time in orbit staring at the vast and hypnotic majesty of space. She focused her attention on the mess below her. Namely the human-triggered deterioration […]
Remember Ted Turner? He was the media darling of the seventies, eighties and early nineties. He created the revolutionary TV news concept called CNN. Then he bought the Atlanta Braves baseball franchise and turned it into a World Series champion. He even skippered an America’s Cup victory – then, the highest profile yacht race in […]
Social Media App Parler Returns Today’s announcement about the unshuttering of controversial conservative social media platform Parler has raised some fairly profound social questions. The first question being how on earth can you write ‘conservative’ immediately after ‘controversial’. The app, which was thrown out of Google and Apple Online stores, became a megaphone for everything […]
It’s late December and the media are amping up pre-election chatter. The United States, the United Kingdom and India are all going to the polls. It’s the biggest election year in the history of the democratic process. The dominant narrative is, of course, AI. Deepfake video and audio content are threatening to laugh in the […]
DANIEL EK (CEO): Team, Over the last two years, we’ve put significant emphasis on building Spotify into a truly great and sustainable business – one designed to achieve our goal of being the world’s leading audio company and one that will consistently drive profitability and growth into the future. While we’ve made worthy strides, as I’ve […]
Drunk, Stoned and Depressed Air Traffic Controllers Guiding Your Plane “Hi everyone, this is your Captain again. We’re about 200 kilometres from Kennedy. We’ll be commencing our descent in two minutes.” After a long haul or a short haul, when you hear this, you can’t help but feel relieved you’ll be on the ground again […]
With seven No.1 songs on the charts, The Weeknd has just scored another hit . He has donated $2.5 million to the United Nation’s World Food Programme, more commonly known as WFP. This was done through his XO Humanitarian Fund. This amount will ensure that 173,000 Palestinians have meals for two weeks. Abel Tesfaye (his […]
Riyadh Expo 2030 Announced I’m a westerner and I spent seven years of the previous decade in the United Arab Emirates. The news of Riyadh winning the bid to host World Expo 2030 came as no surprise at all. The volume and speed of societal progress recently has been barely comprehensible in the Kingdom and […]