With less time spent practicing and performing real face-to-face communication, the scientists’ worry, social skills will decline, much as without physical exercise, muscle tone in our bodies will decline.
by Lee Rickwood
Ryerson’s Digital Media Zone (DMZ) is partnering with Waterloo’s Communitech and Toronto’s OneEleven to share their facilities, resources and talent. Communitech and OneEleven, like the DMZ, help entrepreneurs grow their businesses.
Canadians are amng the world’s leading consumers of Internet and cell services, but companies that deliver the goods to us have more work to do in terms of being open and respectful about service contracts, monthly fees and consumer privacy.
by Lee Rickwood
It’s good that development companies are aware that some of the tools they are creating can be used for, well, purposes other than intended.
by Lee Rickwood
Their work is at the leading edge of trends to use mobile phones and digital devices as more of an interface to other real-world activities, not just as a self-contained virtual space for data abstraction.
by Lee Rickwood
Tech tools for school can increase students’ understanding about how they learn – as much as what they’re learning – and be a boost to further education, college and career success. Those tools can also be a threat to personal privacy and security online.
By Lee Rickwood
Regulations for the safe and responsible operations of remotely piloted aircraft for both commercial and amateur must address safety and privacy matters; some say they should go beyond the requirements of Transport Canada.
by Lee Rickwood
“Future research may indicate that long-term human exposure to these particular low-frequency characteristics should be avoided or carefully controlled” a scientist wrote in 1979.
Now, we’re looking at labelling.
by Lee Rickwood