Author: mpesce
Perihelia 2023 – Day Three
Three years on from the January when Australia burned, it’s time once again to celebrate ‘Perihelia’ – so named because it marks the three days when Earth makes its closest approach to the Sun. (Which we did this morning, at 3.17 AM Sydney time.)
Today – January 5 – is the third and final day of Perihelia, a day of:
Public promises and commitments made for the coming year by government and business leaders, by local communities, by families and individuals, and a revision of goals – ever upward!
On this day, Perihelia looks forward: how can we do better in the next year than in the one just past? I can not speak for the government, nor for business, and while I am a member of my community, I could not claim to speak for them. I can only speak for myself.
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Today – January 4 – marks the second day of Perihelia, dedicated to:
Congratulations and celebrations of Australia’s successes in meeting or exceeding the challenges presented by the Climate Crisis. Awarding of AOEMs – Australian Order of the Environmental Merit – for those individuals whose actions demonstrated exceptional commitment.
Read More »Perihelia 2023 – Day One
In early January 2020, Australia burned. It had already burned for months. It would burn for another month – until some of the heaviest rains ever seen doused the flames. In the middle of those fires, with no…
Read More »Twenty-five years ago today: VRML
The winter of 1993/94 saw Tony Parisi (recently moved to San Francisco) and I working away feverishly on the very first version of a 3D Web browser. ‘Labyrinth’, over the course of 1994, would evolve into VRML. By…
Read More »Goalposts: Property Investment over the Next Billion Seconds
GOALPOSTS: Property Investment over the Next Billion Seconds INTRODUCTION The seeds of the future are already in the present. William Gibson put this more poetically when he said, “The future is already here – it’s just not evenly…
Read More »Touring 2050
TOURING 2050 A billion seconds is 31 years and 251 days. There’s exactly billion seconds between where we are today and the last day of January 2050. That’s a whole generation. I myself still plan to be here…
Read More »Touring 2050 (audio / slides)
Keynote for the Australasian Institute of Judicial Administration – basically all the leading justices in Australia & NZ. And the slides: Touring 2050
Read More »Democratising Technology – The Square Revolution with Jim McKelvey
DEMOCRATISING TECHNOLOGY CITY OF SYDNEY Visiting Entrepreneur Program Lower Town Hall 22 May 2018 18.30 INTRODUCTION Good evening, I’m Mark Pesce, and I’m your MC this evening. I would like to begin by acknowledging the Gadigal of the…
Read More »“The Road Ahead” (audio/slides)
Lecture (or, well, most of it) for the UTS Animal Logic Academy, 17 May 2018. All about the history of virtual reality, and the future of videogrammetry. The slides are available here. The Road Ahead
Read More »Mentorplicity
MENTORPLICITY PART ONE: THE PASSION OF THE MENTOR The year is 2030. That’s less than a billion seconds from now. For most everyone in the workforce – and certainly everyone at the higher end of the workforce –…
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