2016, the year that was: Science + Technology

A round-up of major events in science and technology

Breaking News - Science & Technology 2016 may have been gruelling for some, with the political shockwaves of Brexit and the election in the US of Donald Trump, not to mention a spate of celebrity deaths.

But it was a big year for those engaging the tools of empirical science to better understand the natural universe around us.

In fact, 2016 kicked off with one of the biggest discoveries of this century so far: the detection of gravitational waves by an international team of scientists, including several from Australia.

 

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Fortuitously enough, this came almost precisely 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted such waves ought to exist, and is a testament to the power of the scientific method. Based on the observations of his day, along with the power of mathematics and his inspired imagination, Einstein was able to describe a phenomenon that it was impossible for him to test.

 

Yet the dogged persistence of scientists in the intervening century enabled them to build a detector with a sensitivity that boggles the mind: it could spot a wobble in the fabric of spacetime that was 10,000 times smaller than the width of a proton.

Yet, in light of this profound discovery, we still don’t teach Einstein’s theories in high school.

 

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2016, the year that was: Business and Economics

Millions of leaked documents, dubbed the Panama Papers, exposed the legal but dubious tax dealings

Around this time last year, the Coalition government was trying to manage the nation’s Business and Economy despite political shakeups, we were all watching a country on the verge of leaving the European Union, and some businesses were in the spotlight for behaving badly. Anyone getting deja vu?

As we look back at what made news in business news  and economics news in 2016, there is certainly a little bit of history repeating, in addition to some being made.

1. Scandals, insolvency and bad behaving banks
2. Questioning China’s influence in Australia
3. Changing industries
4. Global waves beyond Australia’s shores
5. Backpackers, 457 visa and migrant workers
6. Company results
7. Budget, election, budget update

As in the Trump and Brexit tumult overseas, Australians are also unhappy with inequality in the property market, superannuation and household incomes and wealth, just to name a few.

But despite all this tension, it should be calm around the Christmas dinner table. As long as no one mentions smashed avocado…

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