The Cookie Crumbles
Technology is disrupting risk, and it will both change and make maritime fortunes in the process. When Apple’s new iWatch went on sale recently the consensus from commentators seemed to be that whilst...
View ArticleThe Futurenauts: Richard Rivlin
As part of our mission to chart shipping and maritime’s technology-enabled future, we’re profiling some of the people shaping that future. Richard Rivlin had the idea for an automated, highly accurate...
View ArticleSauce for the Goose
Xeneta changed everything by connecting shipping’s customers to each other. Now it’s about to show how the power of its disruptive platform works for shipping too. Some people get a bit apprehensive...
View ArticleHeart of the Matter
Maritime’s culture of self-reliance is at odds with machine-centred automation. Bridging the divide between the physical and tangible, and the digital and virtual needs humans at its heart. When...
View ArticleNervous System
When it comes to technology in shipping defining the statistical risk isn’t enough. We need a human response that takes into account the social, cultural and emotional context. I recently gave the...
View ArticleCutting the Cord
Technology is growing exponentially, while the bureaucracy that regulates it is growing arithmetically in response. As we approach the inflection point what could the ‘bureaucratic singularity’ mean...
View ArticleSAPS Rising
Business is going social and the right people are key. Finding them is going to be a real headache, and money alone won’t cure anything. There’s an adage I’ve referenced before in Futurenautics about...
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