In this weeks episode, we look back at the last 8 years of State of Electronics. At the 2018, Pearcey Foundation, Victorian awards night (known as Pearcey Day), I gave a brief speech about my effort in recording Australia's tech history. I was the last speaker in a line of incredibly amazing speakers (moderated by Dr Peter Thorne) who presented that day, so I had to be very brief with my introduction. For a complete list of speakers and details about the Pearcey Foundation, visit https://pearcey.org.au/2018-pearcey-d...

What does the Pearcey Foundation do:
"The Pearcey Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 in memory of a great Australian ICT pioneer Dr Trevor Pearcey. The Foundation operates broadly across the Australian Information Communication Technologies (ICT) sector, from celebrating achievements through national and state awards, to being involved in debate and public policy on critical national issues such as productivity, the digital economy and national infrastructure."

The video that follows the speech, is a summery of interviews that also lists many of the incredible innovations created by Australians and others in Australia. It starts at the dawn of electronics (which roughly occurs at the same time Australia is settled by Europeans in the mid 1800's) and progresses through time to the current day. For me, it shows why it is very important to collect and retell these stories in the hope that it inspires others to make, create and invent the future, no matter what country they might come from.

There are so many people to thank for participating in SOE (over the 8 years) that invariably I will have inadvertently forgotten to properly credit some. Please forgive me and I will do my best to update this description with anyone I might have left off the credits. There are many who did not appear in this highlights video and this was largely due to the limited time I had both to edit the video and also in presenting it to the Pearcey Day attendees. This in no way reflects in the value of these interviews to the SOE project but rather my limited time to effectively revisit the 80+ interviews. Many thanks again to you all and those watching. Cheers.

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