Year: 2022
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Now is the Winter …
âNow is the winter of our discontent…” William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act-I, Scene-I, Line 1 This scourge has carried on for two years, through what feels like a never-ending cycle of lockdowns and isolation, through information wars spawned from within and without, leaving us with uncertainty and doubt. Many are ready to give up. Nearly…
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Isolation
in: Observation
In an earlier post, I assembled a selection of dots connecting an increase in social isolation and certain trends in technology adoption propelled by our tendency to privilege left-brain thinking. Some have noted this trend towards isolation began with the emergence of the mobile phone, around 2008 or so. Now after two years of intermittent…
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Automation and Instrumentation
in: Observation
In his book on history and technology, Connections, author James Burke quipped “If the Normans didn’t have stirrups we’d all be speaking Anglo-Saxon”. His point was how the introduction of technology influences the outcome of events, which in turn triggers a course change along our path into the future. For what ever reason, this quote has…
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Trucker Protests – Appropriations
The single protest, beginning just a few weeks ago with cross-country convoys starting on each of the east and west coasts converging on Ottawa, has metastasized across this country to Toronto, Fredericton, Quebec City, and at various border points in BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and most importantly the Detroit-Windsor border crossing. Photographing one in Toronto and…
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Terrorist Truckers Assault the Hub of Canadaâs Democracy at Queenâs Park
Saturday, February 5th, 2022 – Toronto: Successfully breeching the Toronto Police Forceâs âbig fenceâ of police cars and event buses by disguising themselves as women, children, babies in carriages, hipsters, Trump supporters, conspiracy theorists and the infirm, burly, tattooed, yet wily, âtruckersâ left their vehicles behind and mounted a siege, in the shadow of the…