Nadeem Rizvi
Hybrid Manufacturing Shortens Product Development Times
Modern-day designers of micro-products are able to choose from a vast array of manufacturing technologies to bring their designs to life. Read more
The World Outside the Box
It’s fair to say that the recent award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan came as a major surprise to most people. Read more
Obsolescence — The Saviour of High Tech Giants?
There are over seven billion humans on Earth and this number is steadily rising at a rate of a few extra people per second. Read more
Innovating the Future
Many people have great ideas but very few make a success of those ideas in terms of making their inventions useful or getting a return on their inventiveness. Read more
Small Steps or Big Leaps
It is amazing to think that the sun delivers more energy to the Earth’s surface in one hour than is used by the world’s population in one year. Read more
Laser Micro Manufacturing: Paths to Production
Micro manufacturing is expanding into an ever-widening number of industries and applications. Read more
Bursting Bubbles in the Real World
Unicorns only used to be found as mythical beasts in ancient folklore but in the past few years the term has increasingly been applied to high-tech start-up companies who achieve a valuation of at least a billion dollars. Read more
Technology Drives the Future
There has been a lot of recent interest in driverless cars and much debate about whether we are ready to lose control of driving on the roads. Read more
Spotlight on the Ultra-Small
By definition micro technology deals with the miniature world but one of the unexpected side-effects of this is that it is often very difficult to convey the scale of things to others. Read more
Roadmaps to the Future
It is now 50 years since Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, had the foresight to make the observation that has since become known as Moore’s Law. Read more
Disruptive Technologies Take Their Time
We live in an incremental world. Very few things in technology are truly revolutionary, no matter how hard the marketing people might like to convince us otherwise. Read more
Drowning in Data
Data is everywhere and whatever we do we are contributing to an information explosion. Read more
Winning on Your Own Terms
There must be hundreds of self-help and motivational management guides out there and lots of them end up using sports metaphors as a seemingly clever short-hand for how to think and behave in business. Read more
Research — From Deep Space to Blue Skies
The recent success in confirming the existence of the Higgs particle at CERN is an amazing achievement for experimental physics. Read more
Keeping Business in Perspective
When the Voyager 1 spacecraft was in the farthest reaches of the Solar System and about to head off into interstellar space, NASA decided to use some of the craft’s dwindling energy to do something that had little scientific merit. Read more
Risky Business
The best risk assessments are those which are done continually as part of normal work programmes so that they don’t become something to dread or, even worse, avoid. Read more
Out with the Old?
We live in a digital world. All around us we can see the evidence of the changes which modern technology has brought about and the way in which we interact with our world has completely changed in less than a generation. Read more
All Smoke and Mirrors?
The success of the film Gravity at the recent BAFTAs and Oscars for its special effects was seen as a triumph for the British Film Industry and those of you who have seen the film will no doubt concur that the visual effects were indeed amazing. Read more
The Shape of Things to Come
Technology trends come and go and the high-tech world is littered with ‘next big things’ that have not yet quite made it big (or made it all). Read more
There’s Value in Staying Local
In the past decade, a lot of companies have thought unquestioningly that moving manufacturing to lower-cost territories was the only way to remain competitive globally. Nadeem Rizvi asks if this has to be the case. Read more
Mastering Robots
Although various forms of automatons and mechanical contraptions have been around for centuries, it is only within the last 100 years that mechanical machines have been designed and built to do useful jobs for humans. Read more
Safety in Numbers
People don’t like having to remember countless passwords and tend to use them badly and insecurely. Read more
Gambling on the Future
The electric car company Tesla recently (and briefly) overtook General Motors as America’s most valued car maker. Read more
The World Outside the Box
It’s fair to say that the recent award of the Nobel Prize for Literature to Bob Dylan came as a major surprise to most people. Read more
A Matter of Trust
It is a generally-held belief that businesses do not like uncertainty and although economies throughout the world have been turbulent for some time now, the recent UK vote to leave the EU has only worsened this situation. Read more
Survival of the Quickest
During most of the 20th century the small, yellow Kodak film can was recognisable throughout the world. Read more