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Was Iraq the Fourth Estate’s Waterloo?
The question that now lurks in the back of everyone’s mind when consuming media is, “Hang on, weren’t you the ones who swore blind Saddam had WMDs?”
Nigel Bowen
Mar 23
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Why does everybody now hate the tech industry?
Well-heeled VCs and founders may yet pay a high price for crashing their favourite bank and then shrilly demanding it immediately bailed out
Nigel Bowen
Mar 16
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Tech wreck 2.0 is dead. Long live the AI-led tech boom
Now tech companies that got carried away with hiring during recent years have ‘right-sized’, are we on the cusp of an AI-driven tech-industry boom?
Nigel Bowen
Mar 9
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Tech wreck 2.0 is dead. Long live the AI-led tech boom
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Generative AIs: woke brainwashers or management lackeys?
Just like progressive elites, large language models get very uncomfortable when certain subjects are brought up
Nigel Bowen
Mar 3
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Get Carter – a decent man and a decent president
It’s coming rather late in the day, but there is growing recognition that Jimmy Carter played a poor hand about as well as could have been hoped
Nigel Bowen
Feb 23
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Is this the darkness before the techno-utopian dawn?
Life has been pretty grim for the bottom 80 per cent of society for some time. Is that about to change?
Nigel Bowen
Feb 16
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What happens when high-status, white-collar work starts getting automated away?
Nobody cared when many millions of blue-collar men were thrown on the scrap heap. White-collar workers won’t go so gently into the good night of…
Nigel Bowen
Feb 9
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Did the Treasurer just drive the final nail into the coffin of Australian neoliberalism?
Albo and his treasurer were careful not to frighten the horses while in Opposition. But they are making some bold pronouncements now they occupy the…
Nigel Bowen
Feb 2
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Did the Treasurer just drive the final nail into the coffin of Australian neoliberalism?
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