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Posted on 08 January 2014

Where to look for new ideas.

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Hidden depths. When it comes to seeking out opportunities to generate revenues in an innovative way, I think there can be few companies that have done it as well as British Columbia based Triton Logging.

Should you be concerned?

Trying to cheer up an old business acquaintance recently whose company is holding on for better times, I said ‘Hey, look on the bright side – we have just survived a downturn as bad as the 1930s’.

How did I get here?

Starting Again Imagine that you could start something in your life all over again. I actually did it. But 'why?' My company, Town Group, started life shortly after I left the Royal College of Art.

Robots – are they that great?

We don't get on very well with robots, do we? We don't mind if they do our dirty and dangerous work but don't want one as a friend. It is irrational but we do not trust them.

Self-organising systems and swarm intelligence– are we that simple?

We are relatively new to the planet but have the biggest brains relative to our size. Is there more to learn from the animal world, and from insects in particular?

Synesthesia is a unique sensory phenomenon

For a synaesthete, instead of these senses remaining separate entities, the senses get mixed up. Taken quite literally a synaesthete may be able to taste a shape or see a colour in a sound.