Author: Ray Keefe

  • Prototypes Blunt Innovation

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    Prototyping Prototypes are very useful. We use them all the time when developing new products. They let us try out new ideas explore how well a particular technology will work for a specific application.   One danger of a prototype, is that there is the temptation to think that you can then just fix it…

  • Quantum Amplifiers

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    Quantum Computing One of the areas where there seems great promise, but also great confusion, is the Quantum Computer. I’m not going to try and sort that all out here. You can follow the links to get a better idea of the topic. However there is one aspect that does interest me. In my post…

  • Modern Economies Need Manufacturing

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    Professor Goran Roos As well as being the Thinker in Residence for South Australia, Professor Goran Roos is considered one of the 20 most significant thinkers of the 21st Century. This morning he was presenting his views on Australian Manufacturing to a combined breakfast meeting of the South East Business Network and SEMMA.   So…

  • Australian Synchrotron

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    Australian Synchrotron I went to the open day for the Australian Synchrotron at the Monash Science Park on Sunday. As a member of SEMIP I already knew about the Australian Synchrotron but had never actually visited it. I am very glad I did. On the open day I went to two sessions. The first was…

  • VECCI New Ideas Forum 2011

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    VECCI New Ideas Forum 2011 I had the privilege of being invited to the VECCI New Ideas Forum 2011 where we had the chance to add our ideas to those already gathered by VECCI. They had opened an ideas portal on the Internet which was a great way to gather ideas. There were three categories…