ArtsTech – the future of robots will be... human!

ArtsTech – the future of robots will be... human!

“Here come the robots!” We’ve been seeing these headlines for years. Actually, bots are already everywhere in your life, often without you being able to see them – and now they are here in one of the last enclaves to be touched by automation, sensors, big data and little bots – the classical performing arts!

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Call for Expressions of Interest in participating in ArtsTech Speed Dating 9 May 2017

Call for Expressions of Interest in participating in ArtsTech Speed Dating 9 May 2017

Call for Expressions of Interest in Participating Are you a tech innovator who is interested in applying your technology to re-invent the traditional performing arts – orchestras, opera, ballet?

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StratEDGY presents ArtsTech Speed Dating for Tech Week 2017

StratEDGY presents ArtsTech Speed Dating for Tech Week 2017

Sometimes a possible future is so compelling that you can’t just leave it to chance! That’s how we felt at StratEDGY when, having explored the future of orchestras with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, we realised that there is a huge opportunity for New Zealand, sitting there for the taking. There is currently a global lag in the application of science and technology to traditional branches of the performing arts, in particularly ballet, orchestra, opera and kapa haka.

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Boaty McBoatface provides a useful lesson for institutions in a post-institutional age

Boaty McBoatface provides a useful lesson for institutions in a post-institutional age

The British National Environment Research Council decided to ‪#‎crowdsource‬ the name for their new polar research vessel.

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Beyond externalities - IMF, fossil fuels and subsidies

Beyond externalities - IMF, fossil fuels and subsidies

In economics, an externality is the cost or benefit that affects a party who did not choose to incur that cost or benefit.

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Pounamu 2013

Pounamu 2013

What if in 2023, everyone in New Zealand could use science as easily as they can use a computer now? What would you create? Who would you work with? What would you invest in? What problems would you solve? What would you help to change?

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