Are electric cars worse for your health than petrol powered cars?

In China electric cars appear to be worse for your health than gas-powered cars – please explain? and that’s what we try and do this week in my FutureTech segment with Adelaine Ng on ABC Australia.

The question begins with- as good as electric cars may be, in China that electricity comes from brown coal, which in its reincarnation into electricity is a heavy polluter.

I don’t believe we have yet seen the next real fuel alternative.

There is far too much time, effort and money going into what we know and believe, rather than what we don’t yet know and can’t quite yet prove, which is generally where our best innovations can be found.

So listen in and then share with us your thoughts on tomorrow’s possible alternate energy sources.

and listen live each Wednesday at 5.25 p.m. (EST)

Teach ‘em what they need to know

Australia has announced it will ease student visa restrictions but researchers say the way the overseas education system works will change markedly as more people have internet access.

Adelaine Ng of ABC Australia radio and I jumped into the debate on the future of higher education to discuss where we may be headed and how different tomorrow’s education sector and offerings need to be.

On air we worked our way through an IBISWorld report that says higher education systems go through life cycles and how we are on the cusp of a new era in education and talked about universities gearing towards life skills as a base for education to meet trends that will see people have 6 careers in a lifetime and 14 different jobs.

I am a strong believer that we can’t just teach them what we were taught, nor can we teach them in the way we were taught and that the world of education is in for a fundamental shift in its content, client, delivery method, staffing, outcomes and purpose.

Anyway listen in and I’d love to know what you think about where education is headed and what it should become.

and listen live each Thursday at 4.35 p.m. (Australia EST)