Somewhere in my categories is a title “Communication is the Future”. In a significant way it is misleading. Yes humans are in instant contact with one another but are they really communicating. Many years ago when you phoned anybody they had no way of knowing who was calling and they answered. Not to-day. On the Continue Reading
Police are no different than all people. They think, firstly about themselves and their own safety. A black man Andrew Loku, who came from the Sudan and who suffered to some extent with mental illness, was shot dead in Toronto carrying a wooden hammer. This incident created a shock as it came within a year of Continue Reading
In the July-August issue of Foreign Affairs there was an article by Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, a professor of robotics at the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University. It left me with a great deal of misgivings about the future of mankind. I was used to thinking about robots in a military situation, drones delivering packages Continue Reading
An Article by Catherine Chatterley in the Huffington Post Comparing the suffering of human beings is a fruitless enterprise that breeds resentment, hostility and competition. An old professor of mine at the University of Chicago, the distinguished historian Peter Novick, called this dynamic, appropriately, the” Victimization Olympics”. For scholars trained in specific fields Continue Reading
When I contemplate the articles and news reports in the papers, T.V. and radio that followed the death of my good friend, Alan Borovoy, it has brought an ironic smile to my face. Why? When Alan retired and we met on occasion thereafter, he always commented that he was out of the public eye. No Continue Reading
The owner of the Ottawa Senators, Eugene Melnyk has created an issue of entitlement. Why should a prominent man with money, even though it was not spent, be allowed to get a liver replacement because he was well-known, and his problem was given prominence in the newspapers. Most ordinary Canadians with a similar need for Continue Reading