Technology is not just a double edged sword-paradoxical good and bad effects. It’s far more complex-it’s a quadruple blade or four-edged blade sword. McLuhan predicted and warned us that every technology or human invented construct has 4 simultaneous effects on culture and society, which strateg...

Guess which city in the province of Ontario, Canada has the best record of entrepreneurial start ups over the recent period? Toronto? Wrong! Waterloo. Off the mark! Give up? Well its Oshawa, the city that has been hard hit by auto sector layoffs [hat tip to Andrew Maxwell for the stats] Unempl...

  Today's sporting gear is dumb and benign.   But sports equipment is about to get a lot smarter soon --not just from a style point of view but literally.   The sports industry (along with porn) has always been a bellwether sector for new technology applications. Fi...