My favourite #Melbourne, #BarryJones, #book story: 1990s I was at #McGills Technical books on #Elizabeth looking for some academic computing book and I spy Barry browsing through the books; And the book he was reading?
… a book describing the #Internet 📘☺️
Wide ranging and insightful.
"A hung parliament is not to be feared. [...] If the historic parties were forced to open up, instead of being dominated by factions, lobbyists and ideological obsessions, and fear of offending, democracy would have a fresh burst of energy."
https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20620/VQCymrNg
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The great globe itself, and human life and society as we know it, is potentially more threatened in the coming decades than since the Ice Age thawed about 11,000 years ago. Australia is particularly exposed and vulnerable. Three generations into the future, long before 2100, our continent may become uninhabitable.
This comment is from #BarryJones and it is absolutely correct! ✅
“Albanese appears to be strikingly lacking in ambition. I am convinced that making some bold decisions, and explaining them, would strengthen his prime ministership significantly. He could begin by bringing Tanya Plibersek in from the cold, experimenting with democracy inside the ALP, tackling the corrosive causes of Australia’s gambling obsession, and addressing our grossly unequal education system.” #TheSaturdayPaper
TRULY AHEAD OF HIS TIME…
BARRY JONES was way ahead of his Australian Labor Party colleagues when Minister for Science in the Whitlam government of the 1970s.
Sometimes derided and disregarded by them, he was not only their intellectual superior, he was different to them and to other politicians because, being science literate, an author and a futurist, he looked ahead beyond the next election cycle.
Jones created Australia’s Commission for the Future as a forum to analyse trends and think about their likely impact on society.
His book, Sleepers, Wake! Technology and the Future of Work, has been reprinted a number of times.
No politician has since equalled his scientific literacy.
Any Australians here remember Barry?
Sleepers Wake! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleepers,_Wake!
#science #australianpolitics #politics #politicians #australia #futurism #barryjones #australianlaborparty #sleeperswake
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