Many of these have gone it alone, but many struggle with implementation, updates, troubleshooting and security. Tired of crippling licence fees and being eaten alive on support costs, clients started to look to consider these new entrants. Is the educational hat on the Moodle logo a little dated and about to fall off? MORE >>

As the microprocessors used in personal computers and technical workstations were becoming increasingly powerful, you could now build supercomputers using these CMOS micros and parallel architectures at a much lower price than the previous generations of vector machines.  They got us into the terascale and petascale ranges.  Let me explain. MORE >>

Pricing Huge hikes in prices for the buyer (almost tripling in UK), now seem unrelated to the real price of the degree. In adopting the £9000 (or close) fees, Universities may be creating their own bubble, dislocating cost from real value. He thinks he’s spotted another : Higher Education. So what’s happening? MORE >>

We are increasingly using systems thinking to address some of our most critical contemporary problems including climate change, energy and the environment, cities and metropolitan areas, jobs and productivity, the global economy, financial systems and national security.  We are not just passive observers.  Let me discuss a few.  . MORE >>

Similarly, flat panel displays replaced CRT monitors and televisions once their prices dropped to the point that many could afford them.  But initiatlly, their costs were too high, so they were only used in consumer products that required relatively small panels, such as laptop computers.  Transistors took their place. MORE >>