ideacity Strikes a Human Chord at 15th Annual Conference
by Lee Rickwood
ideacity presentations are not structured in a formal sense, but certain common threads often connect one speaker with the next – watch out, you’ll get caught!
Tag: technology
Forget Google’s Glasses – Try Space Glasses, from Canadian Inventor Steve Mann, the Father of Augmented Reality
It’s one of the most unnerving tech experiences any audience could ever have: we’re watching a noted lecturer; he’s wearing strange high-tech glasses. They’re connected to a huge video screen, on which the audience sees what he sees: an image…
Needed Now More than Ever, Canadian Innovation Collects Top Technology Design Award
No one wants to use this innovative award-winning device, but the need for a Drop Pod in emergency situations and natural disasters cannot be avoided.
By Lee Rickwood
Canadian Researchers, Industry Analysts Ask: Are Social Media Networks our Friends?
by Lee Rickwood
What if your friend turned out to be a real materialist, ‘only in it for the money’? What if they were constantly pushing you to buy things you may or may not want or even like? Would you still hang out?
Canadian Digital Entrepreneur Sees Both Sides of Male-Female Workplace Dynamic
by Lee Rickwood
When the time came to balance personal life and raising a family, against professional opportunities and a successful career in progress, she had no regrets over choosing family first.
By Lee Rickwood
Canada Needs Its Own Internet: Union Calls for Crown Corporation for Telecom
A more competitive Canadian information and communications infrastructure could support continued technological innovation, deliver a capable and competitive cell and smartphone ecosystem, and protect its citizens from the machinations of foreign jurisdictions.
by Lee Rickwood
Digital Activist’s Suicide Triggers Internet Memorials, Online Controversies
Digital innovator and cyber activist Aaron Swartz, 1986 – 2013. In a speech he made last year, he spoke of the on-going battle to define what can, what will and what will not take place on the Internet.
by Lee Rickwood
Canadian Live Tech Demo Shows Your Data on the Internet
At a special technology event this weekend, you can see pictures of where data travels on the Internet, just like you’re looking at friend’s vacation diary or something. But following data around is a lot more difficult to do, for a host of technical, physical, business and regulatory reasons.
by Lee Rickwood