I have some time to give a bit of a longer recap of what I have been doing the last couple of years while Montreal Tech Writer was offline. I actually run this website via a Docker container created by a wonderful programmer named Oskar Hane who now works at NEO4J, the graph database
The internet, blogs, e-commerce, new data-driven web apps like Airbnb and Uber are a marvel. What if those currently not at the party could gain entry? Traditionally (a funny word when referring to something new like internet technology, but nonetheless) those hyper-successful Silicon
Some could argue that the Singularity is already here; that point in time as Ray Kurzweil famously popularized after which our technologies improve at such an exponential rate that even tomorrow becomes incomprehensible to today. I would argue we have just about arrived. It is true th
Old religions and the priestly hierarchies who largely administer them still propagate the notion that religion is somehow otherworldly. A new crop of theorists and art, though, begins to get at the miraculous of the now, none the least of which is Lee Smolin from Canada’s Perim