One of the most popular science fiction authors today says, “We always have agency. We always have the ability to change the future.” Read More
PositionEditor-in-Chief
JoinedJanuary 10, 2019
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Michael Hainsworth is a Canadian veteran news reporter and lifelong geek. Hainsworth spent 18 years at BNN, and as Senior Anchor distilled the day’s most important financial and technology stories into understandable and engaging reports for 2.2 million viewers on the network and the CTV Evening News nation-wide. He is the co-host of one of Canada’s most popular podcasts, Geeks & Beats with radio legend Alan Cross. Now in its 6th season, the show has an audience equivalent of packing Massey Hall once a week.
Sci-fi author and activist Cory Doctorow argues today’s technology run amok doesn’t make a dystopian future tomorrow inevitable. Read More
In the next episode of Futurithmic, Rory Sutherland, the Vice-Chairman of Ogilvy UK isn’t convinced artificial intelligence will do all our shopping for us. Read More
Stephanie Harvey (aka missharvey) points out that only 5% of professional gamers today are women. Girl gamers are almost twice as likely to be bullied. Read More
Jimmy Wales doesn’t blame any politician for the state of truth today. They’re a symptom of a bigger problem that includes the business model of news media. Read More
The English version of Wikipedia launched in 2001 with fewer than 20,000 articles. Today it boasts more than 5.8 million pages. Read More
If we were to hand over the metadata to our devices and those of about 3 million of our neighbours, what could we learn about ourselves? Read More
As AR makes the leap from our smartphones into other IoT devices and wearables, we get closer to The Singularity — where man and machine merge Read More
