Trends

By way of an introduction to this month’s fascinating Round Table discussion, our hosts for the event – CBRE – kindly presented us with the key findings from a fascinating and relevant study they recently completed.

Wires are a pain, and they literally chain you to the spot. So getting rid of them is a good thing. The wires that carry information have been hacked away at for years. Starting with ship communication, then broadcast radio and then WiFi. Now ethernet connections are becoming extinct, satellites bridge the oceans and the telephone network is really a broadband distribution, while landline phones get squeezed out by mobile devices. The days of information carrying wires are numbered, so that battle is almost won.

Now here’s something we didn’t expect to see – M Moser’s Steve Gale tells us he has learned about humanity from the tech firms!

Knowledge has always been at the centre of all learning. And despite decades of continuous change across all sectors of education, that premise hasn’t changed.