Recently my guest lecturing slot at Stenden SA, the leading hospitality management or hotel school in South Africa, was confirmed. In preparation for a week of lectures I started doing research on my favourite resources, TED.com and found this gem. His reference to Abraham Maslow and the application in business alone is worth watching this…
Back in the early 2000s, we were still coming to terms with the internet as a tool of liberation. Fast forward to today, and the very devices that connect us — our smartphones, our Gmail accounts, our social media profiles — are quietly serving as tools of control. And Julian Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, didn’t…
Gmail is the most powerful email application on the planet. It revolutionised how people use web-based email. For many years email users relied on either Microsoft Outlook or some software application to download emails daily, send and receive, etc. Hotmail became a hot property when Microsoft purchased it in the 1990s. However, spammers soon began…
In 2009, Microsoft unveiled a project that felt like it had leapt straight out of science fiction: Project Natal. For most, it was just a new way to play games on the Xbox 360. But for those of us who have long studied the relationship between people and machines, Project Natal was a profound turning…
Alan Watts was a prolific author of books on comparative religion. He was a genius at contrasting Christianity, Judaism with Zen Buddhism, Hinduism and Taoism. In many ways, Osho called Zorba the Buddha because he had his feet firmly in the West and the East. After growing up in England he settled in California for…