Tagged: pounamu

Creating innovation ladders for New Zealand - Ariadne

Robert Hickson • Sep 04, 2013 •

• foresight,
• innovation,
• New Zealand,
• pounamu,
• technology

After Elon Musk announced his Hyperloop design last month Molly Wood wrote an impassioned piece about why Americans are now so sceptical about big ideas. This builds on a disputed theme lamenting the decline of technological innovation in the States (See two of the principles lay out their arguments politely in this TED “debate”. New … Read More

Pounamu Reflections - Molecular Matters

Michael Edmonds • Jun 10, 2012 •

• Education,
• game,
• ponamu,
• pounamu,
• transit,
• Venus

Last week, alongside the Transit of Venus forum, an online game Pounamu ran for two days. Asking players to envision what science would be like in 2020, we could play a series of cards which were visible for comment by other players. These cards included positive imagination and dark imagination cards as good or bad things that might affect … Read More