The most popular tech of the last decade has been social. VR is a lonely individual experience See the original article on CBC.ca from February 14, 2017 Virtual reality was supposed to be the next big thing. That was the message the tech industry peddled for years. But despite all of the hype, consumers just
READ MOREThe real push to get all Canadians equal online access is coming from right inside their own communities See the original article on CBC.ca from February 7, 2017 If you live in rural areas of Canada, chances are you’ve developed a coping ritual for waiting for email attachments to load. Maybe you hit “download” and
READ MOREThe hope with the internet was that we would do away with borders. That hasn’t happened See the original article from January 24, 2017 In the moments leading up to last week’s presidential inauguration, Barry Bennett, a commentator on PBS’s NewsHour, remarked that “division is the new normal.” Ironically, that’s probably the one thing we
READ MOREIt’s 2017, and our most cutting edge consumer technology is a throwback Why are virtual assistants from Amazon, Google and Apple all “female”? Technically speaking, of course, virtual assistants don’t have genders. But they do have names and voices that suggest to users they are more “female” than “male” — a characterization that reinforces some
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