- This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Professor Judith Lamie, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for International Engagement at Swansea University.
- It is the second in a new series of HEPI blogs produced jointly with the NCEE – the first is available here.
Now I am no scientist, as will become evident, but technology is a wonderful thing – from the advent of the television in the late 1920s, and the CT scan in the 1970s, to the camera phone in the 2000s. We marvelled at the invention of the cassette player, followed by the Walkman.
I was teaching in Okinawa, Japan at the time. Quiet strolls to work were no more, bring on the rock bands. Then came the digital revolution. Things got swifter and sleeker, but increased in capacity and capability.
We could listen to, or stop listening to, more than one band at any one time on a device that didn’t require its own carry-on suitcase if you were travelling overseas.
But what has someone pounding the streets of Naha in the 1980s listening to ELO got to do with leadership?
