The Future of Work (and Engineering) in an Automated World By Nick Brunt While dreaming up the future of humanity’s relationship with technology in the 1940s, influential science fiction writer Isaac Asimov imagined the famous “Three Laws of Robotics”, a comprehensive set of rules designed to prevent any possible conflict between man and his ever-advancing…
The Smartest City in the World
By Brytan Mendes It is fashionable at this time of year to leave Montreal for someplace warm – usually in the form of some Mexican or Caribbean locale – to hide from the snow. Yet Montreal has become arguably the hottest city on earth. For decades, such topics as deep learning and machine learning…
What happened, Apple? – A Rant
By Alexandre Darche In 2007, Apple released the iPhone in a world where Blackberry reigned as the king of the cellular market. This risky move quickly snowballed into the smartphone phenomenon of rectangular, all-touch, minimalist design we see everywhere today. It turned crackberry addicts who couldn’t put down their QWERTY devices into Apple-heads who line…