We have not thought out the economic and social impacts of the change we are unleashing when one provides not just a computer but a machine that replicates the human mind. The future could be as dark as our most dystopian sci-fi stories.
I don’t blame the public servants for staying away—Ottawa has a depressing downtown core at the best of times—but an essential component of a successful city, even the plainest of them, is people.
If we want to get serious about building an innovative Canadian future we can be proud of, our governments at all levels need to realize that they’re the obstacles, not the solutions.
We wanted convenience, and now we have it—or rather it has us. We have become slaves to convenience. In the name of efficiency, time-saving, and productivity, we have sleep-walked into an inhuman nightmare.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features host Sean Speer in conversation with Robert Asselin about the need to reform Canada’s science and technology policy and institutions in order to boost innovation and productivity.
Two decades into the social media revolution, the idealized promises of the technology have been soured by the realities of addiction, misuse, and misinformation. Transparency controls and strict regulation of foreign actors will be key to mitigating the platforms’ worst effects.
This episode features host Sean Speer in conversation with Manhattan Institute senior fellow and energy policy expert Mark Mills about technology and innovation, the limits of an energy transition, and why he thinks we are on the cusp of the “roaring 2020s.”
The FTX crash resulted in massive losses for investors as cryptocurrency values plummeted, resulting in roughly $8 billion in losses for depositors. Will the crash and the arrest of founder Sam Bankman-Fried be the end of that Canadian obsession?
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the results of the Mississauga-Lakeshore byelection, in which the Liberals soundly defeated the Conservatives, as well as what the massive advances in AI mean for society.
Bill C-11 is intended to regulate online streaming services alongside traditional broadcast media like cable television, thereby forcing modern streaming giants like YouTube and Netflix to use their algorithms to promote “Canadian stories”. But many creators worry it will threaten their livelihoods in the process.
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