Author: Ivo Vegter

Smart glasses with augmented reality displays and computer vision sound very useful, but the creep factor is doing them in.

Television in three dimensions is a century-old idea whose time may never come.

Cloaked in secrecy before its release, and hyped by the biggest names in technology, this invention was an entirely predictable flop.

Carbon-capture schemes are costly scams that overpromise yet barely reduce global emissions, writes Ivo Vegter.

For years, the mantra among the technology cognoscenti was that bitcoin was merely an application, while its underlying technology, the blockchain, was the truly revolutionary innovation.

This is the first in a series of articles about amazing technologies that promised to change the world but which did no such thing.

Attempts to monitor and control the entire market actively stifle competition, reduce quality, raise prices and hamstring technological progress.

Communications minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni remains convinced that a state-owned network infrastructure company can trump the private sector. She is mistaken.

From electricity to spectrum to water pipes, managers or ministers appointed to fix government services keep running into walls created by decades of neglect.

The solution to all the central-planning madness involved in awarding broadband spectrum in South Africa is simple: make it all tradeable. By Ivo Vegter.