In my previous post I argued that if Canada wants to succeed with its AI-focused innovation agenda, it should also be at the forefront...
Self-help authors and politicians seem to agree on at least one thing: mindset matters. The shelves of bookstores worldwide are awash with motivational books...
The timeline of human history is marked by inflection points of major technological advancement. The plow, the printing press, the telegraph, the steam engine,...
When microwave ovens first arrived on the market in 1967 they were met with public skepticism. Perhaps it was because, not long before, the...
The human will to innovate is seemingly relentless. The history of our species is one of continual development, with the last 350 years, in...
In their outstanding book, Wicked and Wise, Alan Watkins and Ken Wilber look at some of the most pressing ‘wicked problems’ facing the human...
There are many adjectives that could be used to describe the global outbreak of COVID-19, but perhaps the simplest might be: fast.
The disease has...
How important privacy is for building smart cities and embracing the IoT
In the 60s cartoon The Jetsons, the family lived in a futuristic city...
Not even 30 years separate us from the end of the Cold War. Yet, we appear to be witnessing the emergence of a new...
Neil Harbisson calls himself a cyborg. Without the antenna implanted in his skull, he would not be able to see colour of any kind....
Canada has been investing in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for longer than most of the industrialized world. Dr. Geoff Hinton of Google...
We live in a world in which the way we observe and control it is radically changing. Increasingly, we interact with physical objects through...
Getting smart about security in smart systems
Smart used to be something we called people or pets. It wasn't a term one would use to...
A growing number of today’s entertainment options show protagonists battling cyber-attacks that target the systems at the heart of our critical infrastructure whose failure...
Since the dawn of the 21st Century, the ways in which people and organizations that use the Internet experience, perceive and act in the...