Seriously? 33 problems out of 89 safety checks in the manufacturing and assembly of the Boeing 737 Max? How is it possible this aircraft is still flying? Why do the Boeing board of directors still have jobs? How is it even conceivable that Spirit Aerosystems, a contractor for much of the assembly process, is still […]
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Just a few hours ago, Oppenheimer shut out the Academy Awards with a haul of seven Oscars. They were Best Film, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Cinematographer, Editing and Original Score. What this cinematic masterpiece did not win, was the prize for best sound. This is a little ironic given that the audio tech and ingenuity […]
A recent report on how the Israeli military’s deployment of GPS-disruptive technology in southern Lebanon is affecting the civilian population is interesting, but just barely scratching the surface. Interesting because a sector you wouldn’t even dream of being disrupted is being severely tested; the fishing industry. GPS tells fishermen where the fish are, literally. So […]
Consumers have been fed a steady diet of sustainability messages for the last 20 years, at least in developed markets. And now this is becoming built-in to the choices we make when buying or remaining loyal to a brand. But our parameters for purchasing are becoming ever more demanding, particularly because of our increasing appreciation […]
Dune Part 2 Hits the Big Screen Today After a delay of four months, the much anticipated second part of Denis Villeneuve’s Dune arrives in cinemas today. It’s fair to say that Dune Part 2 cannot be tied down to one genre, and that is one of the reasons both the book and the earlier […]
In a move that shocked the world on Tuesday, Apple terminated their decade-long program to build a car. The shock was that it took so long to kill it off. The process had been so beset with issues that, internally, the so-called Titan Project was whisperingly referred to as the Titanic Project. Various media reports […]
There’s a Ferrari that drives down my road every night at about six in the evening. There is both a high-pitched howl and a deeper base note to the exhaust noise as it changes gear adjacent to my house. Every evening, the same gear change at the same spot. I use the word ‘noise’ a […]
Let’s start with a fact. The Boeing 737 MAX has killed more than 300 people so far. I’m not sure what Boeing’s top brass were expecting when they fired Ed Clark, Boeing veteran-turned scapegoat, this week. Jubilant bells ringing in Wall Street? Millions of frequent flyers skipping, dancing towards sunset on the yellow brick road, […]
We’re all too aware that our privacy is being eroded by the power of technology coupled with the insistence of people who want us to buy things. I personally thought that IoT (Internet of Things) was probably going to be disassembling of our last vestige of solitude. By 2030, there’ll be almost 30 million machines […]
Last week at the Singapore Airshow, the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China showed off its C919. The nose design is a copy of Boeing’s 787 and Airbus’s A350, and its elegant wingtips mirror the raked elegance inherent in the latest advances to reduce aerodynamic drag. The backend of the plane is nothing to write home […]
