Science Fact: The Machine
Despite a recognition that there is a fair share of hype, science fiction is quickly becoming science fact ever so swiftly. Just this week it was announced that a computer has finally passed the Turing Test 64 years after it was proposed. This test is designed to gauge whether a compu
The Future, The Hype
I find myself conflicted. As a long time technical writer living through many software start-ups and several larger established and successful companies such as Autodesk and Moment Factory, I was almost forced de facto to buy into the hype of the future. That is, to believe in the pre
June 05, 2014
Ebb-and-Flows
The debate over communications rages on much according to Tim Wu’s argument in The Master Switch, and more narrowly made in technically oriented books like Who Owns the Future? by Jaron Lanier and one I just recently read called Dogfight by Fred Vogelstein about the Apple
November 24, 2013
Permanent Innovation
A couple of times in the last week I have heard the phrase “permanent innovation” or a close variation thereof. The intro to the new J.J. Abrams produced show ‘Almost Human’ talks about runaway technological advancement, and a podcast of BBC’s HARDTalk fe
November 20, 2013
Quantum Maybe?
Today I had to take a bus and metro in Montreal to a semi-unknown destination so of course I consulted Google Maps. Its suggested route was not bad, but because I do know Montreal quite well, I was able to use my ‘human’ common sense to take its suggestion and improve upon
Montreal in 3-Dimensions
The world behind the scenes in Montreal is wondrous. Remixing technology, art, business, careers, French and English, but most of all an avant-garde creative force that shook the planet—and will again—I thought it time to take an account inspired by what the book What the Doormou
September 22, 2013
The Future of Humans
Recently I was in touch with a new startup in Montreal called Flightfox whose model is to shop around a user’s flight itinerary to a group of “flight hacking” experts who themselves are the ones that take advantage of a decade’s worth of computer-based innovati
October 07, 2013
Googlenet: Footsteps from the Singularity
Ray Kurzweil likes to talk about the Singularity, that, depending on who you ask (mythical?), point in time after which technology will have gotten so advanced that there will be a break, a point-of-no-return, an acceleration whereby humans will be out of the loop, or at least will no
See you at the cloudHQ
Having recently disposed of just about all my hardware except for a Nexus 7 and a Chromebook, I have become more reliant on the cloud than ever, and one of the pivotal services that looks to help me complete the transition is the recently discovered cloudHQ. In a nutshell, the online
June 05, 2013
DITA: Or How to Love Technical Documentation
Automated PDF (&/or online content) production from a single source to multiple outputs is key for any modern information purveyor—and key really to an efficient software development house as technical documentation is quite often not thought about until (too?) late in the proces
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