Do schools kill creativity?

Sir Ken Robinson, from his TED talk on creativity If you haven’t done so already, you must watch Sir Ken Robinson’s wonderful TED conference talk “Do schools kill creativity.” He’s got the timing and wit of a comedian combined with the uncommon insights into future of learning and business. View it here. According to Robinson, [...]

[Feature article] Linkedout: Blogging, equality and the future

My article was originally published in Mindjack Magazine (2004) April 19 , 2004 | As I write this, another journalist is explaining what a blog is for the first time. Quite possibly, they are describing blogging as a trend created by actor Wil Wheaton. Most likely, they’re announcing how blogs have just “hit” the mainstream. [...]

[Feature article] Warren Ellis: The transmetropolitan condition

My article below was originally published in Mindjack Magazine online. October 28, 2002 | There has never been a better time to read the work of comic book legend Warren Ellis. From the formulaic pornography of news coverage to the on-going ineptitude of our world “leaders”, Ellis delivers an intelligent and savagely funny antidote to [...]

[Feature article] Reading McLuhan

My article below originally published in Mindjack Magazine online. April 29, 2002 | If there’s a message of the for dummies age it’s that nothing is beyond our grasp. And our desire to believe this is reinforced by trends like usability, which privilege economy over elucidation. No one anticipated it all better than Marshall McLuhan, [...]