These columns were published in The Independent, a weekly newspaper in Brighton, Ontario, January – May, 2004.
Here’s a cliché that needs to be stood on its head: the rate of change is steadily increasing. …
Take a drive west along the lakeshore, past the Darlington generating stations, and you can witness the most urgent environmental problem of our age. No, it’s not the nuclear reactor, shrouded in concrete …
Artificial intelligence hits the road
On April 1st, a non-partisan coalition announces a major improvement to Canada’s traffic infrastructure….
Another technological tall tale. This one is wholly implausible, but factual.…
Will computers outstrip human intelligence any time soon? Not a chance, I’d venture to say, because you just can’t reduce everything to numbers.…