This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the Liberal government’s impending cabinet shuffle. Plus, the recent trend of Big Tech companies threatening to get tough with countries that try to regulate them. Is this an ominous sign for the future?
When it comes to generating power, these days being clean is just as important as being cheap. Fortunately, Canada’s largest province is scaling up its nuclear power ambitions, which is good news for Canada’s clean energy future.
The following is a Hub exclusive of a series of interviews with Yann LeCun, Max Tegmark, Melanie Mitchell, and Yoshua Bengio, who are professors and scientists that recently participated in the Munk Debate contesting the following resolution: “Be it resolved, AI research and development poses an existential threat.”
This episode of Hub Dialogues features James Millar, the president and chief executive officer of the International CCS Knowledge Centre, on the key role carbon capture and storage will play in helping Canada meet its climate goals, why Canada is uniquely suited to becoming a global leader in implementing this innovative technology, and what more still needs to be done.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Pathways Alliance president Kendall Dilling on how Canada’s oil and gas sector can be a valuable partner in reducing the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, the current state of the various technologies helping to achieve that goal, and why decarbonizing energy will be an incredibly profitable opportunity in the long-term.
This special presentation of Hub Dialogues features The Hub’s executive director Rudyard Griffiths in conversation with independent U.S. journalist Matt Taibbi about the Twitter Files, the state and future of Twitter, mainstream media, and the future of democracy in the upcoming 2024 U.S. presidential elections.
Deploying next-generation 5G and 5G-enabled technologies will have positive impacts on our efforts to reduce emissions, due to both direct increases in the energy efficiency of the networks themselves and indirect impacts across all sectors that utilize digital technologies.
Most talk of a new digital currency is misplaced. In almost every way that matters, it already exists. Proposals to expand access to it or to improve back-end payments systems is a far more boring—but a far more accurate and helpful—way to think about it.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Sean Speer in conversation with 2022 Donner Book Prize nominee and Toronto-based author and journalist John Lorinc about his nominated book, Dream States: Smart Cities, Technology and the Pursuit of Urban Utopias.
Rewind 25 years and try to imagine the industries made possible by the modern internet. A similar economic shift is coming, and humanity will stand to greatly benefit if we take full advantage.
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