Tag Archives: Innovation

Legislating The Speed (Limit) of Light

By Adam | Published: June 3, 2009
I’ve been thinking a lot about the talk that Jim Carroll gave at the Tech Alliance Power breakfast (much of which was cataloged here and examined in greater depth by the good folks at Honey Design and by David Canton). The question that keeps coming to my mind is this: If innovation moves faster and [...]
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Oh, But The Home Of The Future Is Sooooo 1939

By Adam | Published: June 26, 2008
The future home will probably be equipped with a number of control centers, from any one of which the homemaker can give her commands to appliances at work in the kitchen and laundry. Electric ranges already are equipped with automatic controls for temperature and cooking time, but there is no practical reason why these operations [...]
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Tell Me A Story… And It Better Be A Good One.

By Adam | Published: June 2, 2008
h/t to Slashdot for this… Apparently, there’re plans afoot to blend a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG) with a weekly TV show on the Sci-Fi Network in the US. Most of the reaction in the blogosphere have pointed towards this being ill-advised. I agree, but perhaps for different reasons than “It’s gonna suck.” [...]
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Michael Geist on Canada's Wireless Crisis

By Adam | Published: May 8, 2008
Michael Geist’s most excellent blog elucidates a point I made in a previous posting here; Namely, that the state of the wireless industry in Canada is a sad one, and that the lack of competition in the country is hurting our ability to innovate and compete on the world stage. “In many ways, the iPhone [...]
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Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 Wikipedias worth of cognitive capacity – Boing Boing

By Adam | Published: April 27, 2008
Nothing too crazy here, but I really like the sentiment: “Cognitive surplus” [is] the idea that automation gave us an enormous amount of free time to think and cogitate, and that sitcoms and other light entertainment from the past century were a way of absorbing that surplus” Link: Death of the sitcom frees up 2,000 [...]
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iPhone 3G coming to Canada?

By Adam | Published: April 27, 2008
The Toronto Star is now reporting that the 3G iPhone will be not only coming out this summer, but that Rogers will carry it. My favourite parts of the article had nothing to do with the iPhone per se, but rather with data pricing in Canada: “It has been widely speculated that the stumbling block [...]
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