Category Archives: Society
Common sense at the world’s greatest hotel.
Seems the Canadian government decided to finally address some of the issues that have a created a tragedy of the commons dynamic around Canadian citizenship. In an op-ed piece from last week in the Globe and Mail, The writer, Natalie … Continue reading
Spot on.
In Friedman’s column today on the Great Reset (nod to Richard Florida), there is a great quote that goes to the heart of the matter of why things have to change. “We created a way of raising standards of living … Continue reading
Away from HCW™ on Valentine’s
Away from HCW™ on Valentine’s Day, what better way to celebrate the day and a business trip, then Jerry Springer’s Hillbilly Valentine’s Day Special. Hoo-wee!!!!
Dead air.
In an article on the social impact of new technologies, The New York Times reports on how cell phones (and digital video recorders) are changing people: “As the sociologist Erving Goffman observed in another context, there is something deeply disturbing about people who are ”out of contact” in social situations because they are blatantly refusing to adhere to the norms of their immediate environment…. Listeners don’t always passively accept this situation: in recent years, people have been pepper-sprayed in movie theaters, ejected from concert halls and deliberately rammed with cars as a result of rude behavior on their cellphones.”
Navigating the waters.
Kuroshin has a toungue-in-cheek article on ‘How To Get Rich & Famous By Blogging At Work’: Here are some techniques you can use to safely and effectively maintain a blog about the useless idiots (i.e. everybody except you) at your place of work without getting fired and, more importantly, gain money and fame.
News from the Case Comp front.
Employing my own little “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy”*, I took a moment to savor the quality of the men at the Case Competition going on this week at the Bonaventure Hilton.
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Editorial: What future for our cities?
One of my favorite subjects is the city. I love to visit cities and learn about their development. I grew up in the city and have a definite penchant for cities. I have read a number of books by Jane … Continue reading
Woe be to thee who bloggeth
The New York Times reports on the potential perils of blogging with respect to one’s friends, family and job. I can personally attest to the difficulty in knowing where to draw the line and have had numerous people ask me … Continue reading
Technology and society
Written in 1945 by Vannevar Bush and entitled “As we may think“, it is considered a classic in the field of computer science and one of the seeds of the Internet. A second thought-provoking article is “The computers of tomorrow” … Continue reading