ask412
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Technology |
| Occupation | Strategic foresight consultant |
| Location | Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
| Links | Wishlist |
| Introduction | Information never arrives naked—it comes dressed in a worldview. Every sentence carries the fingerprints of its author: their values, their incentives, the culture they move within, and the audience they’re quietly trying to persuade. To read well, then, is not just to absorb claims, but to locate them—who is speaking, from where, and toward what end. Serious critical thinking doesn’t discard this context; it sharpens it. It asks not only, “Is this true?” but also, “Under what conditions could this be proven false?” That discipline—falsifiability—acts as a kind of intellectual audit. Yet even that audit depends on something more demanding: interior honesty. Our own biases don’t vanish under scrutiny; they reorganise themselves at different layers of awareness. Recognising them is less about elimination and more about integration. This becomes especially relevant when science steps into the arena of public policy. What presents as neutral evidence can be quietly shaped by publication bias, funding pathways, and the polished hands of consultancy networks and public relations firms. The strongest version of this concern is not that science is “corrupt”, but that it is human—embedde |
| Interests | Stratgec Foresight Futurist studies - energy research |
| Favorite movies | 1970s: The Era of Intellectual Sci-Fi 1970: Colossus: The Forbin Project, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, No Blade of Grass [9, 11] 1971: A Clockwork Orange, The Andromeda Strain, THX 1138 [4, 9, 11] 1972: Solaris, Silent Running, Slaughterhouse-Five [4, 11] 1973: Soylent Green, Westworld, Fantastic Planet [4, 11] 1974: Zardoz, Dark Star, Phase IV [4] 1975: Rollerball, Death Race 2000, A Boy and His Dog [4] 1976: The Man Who Fell to Earth, Logan's Run, Futureworld [4, 9] 1977: Star Wars, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Wizards [4, 9] 1978: Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Superman, Capricorn One [4, 9] 1979: Alien, Stalker, Mad Max [4, 9] 1980s: Blockbusters and Cyberpunk 1980: The Empire Strikes Back, Altered States, Flash Gordon [4, 6, 11] 1981: The Road Warrior, Escape from New York, Scanners [4] 1982: Blade Runner, The Thing, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial [4, 11] 1983: Return of the Jedi, Videodrome, WarGames [4, 10] 1984: The Terminator, Repo Man, 2010: The Year We Make Contact [4, 5, 10] 1985: Back to the Future, Brazil, Enemy Mine [4, 5] 1986: Aliens, The Fly, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home [4, 5, 10] 1987: RoboCop, Predator, The Running Man [5, 10] 1988: Akira, They Live, The Blob [4] 1989: The Abyss, Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure [10] 1990s: Groundbreaking CGI and Reality-Benders 1990: Total Recall, Edward Scissorhands, Flatliners [11] 1991: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Delicatessen [4, 10] 1992: The Lawnmower Man, Hard Boiled, Memoirs of an Invisible Man (Note: A quieter year for major sci-fi) [4] 1993: Jurassic Park, Demolition Man, Body Snatchers [4, 10] 1994: Stargate, Timecop, Star Trek Generations [6] 1995: Twelve Monkeys, Ghost in the Shell, Strange Days [5, 10] 1996: Independence Day, Mars Attacks!, Star Trek: First Contact [6] 1997: Gattaca, The Fifth Element, Contact [4, 5, 10] 1998: Dark City, The Truman Show, Pi [5] 1999: The Matrix, Galaxy Quest, The Iron Giant [4, 5, 10] 2000 |
| Favorite music | Alright, Still-Lily Allen, Chris Bailey - DM Blues, Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men, Emaual Pahud Vivaldi, Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine, Fragments of a dream - Inti-Illmani, Hunters & Collectors, Madonna- Confessions On A Dance Floor, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Norah Jones - Not too late, Norah Jones - The Little Willes, Spiderbait, The Triffids-Australian Melodrama, The Triffids-The Black Swan, The White Stripes-White Blood Cells, Clash - London Calling(Darkside), Alright, Still-Lily Allen, Chris Bailey - DM Blues, Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men, Emaual Pahud Vivaldi, Eskimo Joe - Black Fingernails, Red Wine, Fragments of a dream - Inti-Illmani, Hunters & Collectors, Madonna- Confessions On A Dance Floor, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Norah Jones - Not too late, Norah Jones - The Little Willes, Spiderbait, The Triffids-Australian Melodrama, The Triffids-The Black Swan, The White Stripes-White Blood Cells, good indie bands, |
| Favorite books | Anything written by Clive Barker, David Brin, Philip K. Dick, Harry Harrison, Stephen King, Dean Koontz, George R. R. Martin, J. R. R. Tolkien. |
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