I’m still bullish on humans, so I’m still looking at some of the experts, mavericks and upstarts for their view on AI rather than a bot! The sheer scale of what has happened over the last 4 months continues to be overwhelming. …

ChatGPT didn’t make these recommendations. I did. I didn’t agree with #ChatGPT’s list of the best #edtech newsletters, so I’ve listed mine here. As many of you know, I’m a fan of the #newsletter — and has become the staple of my consumption of what’s going on in the world…

This is not a rehearsal. This is not the end of our species but it is also not how I imagined armageddon would be. Don’t get me wrong, these are serious and unprecedented times, but I imagined starvation, lifeless agriculture and underground warfare without sunshine, without daylight and without hope…

Tools and strategies to discover and distribute awesome content It’s been two and a half years since I started sending out Box of Amazing (a free newsletter, covering emerging technology and trends) and time and again, I get asked the why and the how. Why do I send out a newsletter every Sunday and how do I do it…

I have a renewed love for email. After having mistakenly outsourced my reading curation to (seemingly untrustworthy) social tools, I have wrestled back control and I am convinced that, at present, human curation is better in choosing the best stories for me to read. There may be tools involved in…

Any sufficiently advanced technology is equivalent to magic. — Arthur C. Clarke Imagine going back thirty or so years and explaining to that generation of the things that would be commonplace in society; from ordering a vehicle to pick you up from any location using a handheld communication device that…

Addictions. People get latched onto behaviours: drinking too much, snorting too much, eating too much, inhaling too much. My addiction was reading too much. And just over a year ago, I realised I was an information junkie. I still am. There were two problems: I wanted to know everything about…

How do you get a flavour of what’s changing in education? And how do you figure out what technology’s role is in education in a global context? Since I wrote this short newsletter on Box of Amazing giving my high-level thoughts on the reinvention of education and edtech, I’ve been…

Emerging Technology and Trends Box of Amazing is a free newsletter that I send out every Sunday. I pick a few themes to help provide clarity around this future world that we are fast moving towards and give you a list of my recommendations of what to read. This week…