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Tag Archives: public policy
Map Monday: what happens to all that plastic?
It was back in December when a fellow blogger, Kavitha at SunshinySA Site, posted what for me was a sit-up-and-take-notice fact: Coca Cola scores hat trick as world’s worst plastic polluter worldwide. Yes, for the third year in a row, … Continue reading
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m 164?
This past week there was an intriguing opinion piece in Toronto’s Globe and Mail entitled “It’s only natural to rage against aging”. Written by David Sinclair and Matthew LaPlante, their overriding point is that there is no reason why we … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics, Just wondering
Tagged aging, anti-aging, eternal life, forever young, humor, humour, living forever, public policy
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I’m ready for my first electric car, but is the electric car industry ready for me?
I’m currently driving a 2006 Honda Civic, which is actually still tooling around pretty darn well. It never has to go too far, but it remains reliable (knock on wood) even in the hardest of (long) Canadian winters. However, the … Continue reading
Posted in History and Politics
Tagged Climate change, CO2 emissions, economy, electric cras, electric vehicles, EV, fuel-based economy, hybrids, PHEV, plugins, public policy, renewable energy
21 Comments
Our increasingly technologically-driven world needs humans at the helm, and not just techies
We keep being told that automation is going to impact virtually everything in our lives. Work, shopping, communicating, driving, health care, you name it. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and biotech are going to become the foundation for pretty well all we … Continue reading
Posted in Entrepreneurship & Business, History and Politics, Just wondering
Tagged 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, AI, airplane autopilot, artificial intelligence, Arts graduates, bias, Boeing, computer programmers, computers, humanities and social sciences, job recruitment, machine learning, public awareness, public policy, semi-autonomous cars, societal impacts, software engineers, Yuval Harari
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We’re not wired to embrace facts or make rational decisions, it’s all in The Undoing Project
I’ve just finished reading a book I got for Christmas (thanks, Phil) by Michael Lewis called The Undoing Project. If you’ve read any of Michael Lewis’s other books, such as Moneyball. Liar’s Poker, or The Big Short, you’ll know he’s … Continue reading
How do we combat hatred?
The pursuits of a normal day are, for the most part, likely to be mundane and trivial, but put together they are what defines our lives. It is the little things that make the difference. Everyday interactions can be tedious … Continue reading
Posted in Just wondering
Tagged a just society, compassion, fear-mongering, hate, hate crimes, LBGTQ, leadership, LGBT, mass shootings, Orlando, politics of fear, public policy, tolerance
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