In 2005 (how long ago that seems!) ex-Presidential candidate Al Gore premiered “An Inconvenient Truth”, that seminal documentary that introduced the public at large to the concept of anthropogenic climate change, global warming and greenhouse gasses. Almost immediately, his radical…
Why I wish people would stop asking me what I do for a living
BY: NADIA ZAIDI When people ask me what I do for a living I often find it a difficult question, and not because I don’t have a job — because I don’t think of what I do as work, per…
Artists are exploring humans’ potential roles in the future’s automated economy
BY: ELIJAH BASSETT As the replacement of manufacturing and other jobs by machines threatens to change the labour market beyond recognition, anxieties about the future of the economy in an age of automation are only growing. But some artists are trying…
Tales of migration: Chasing after the North American dream
BY: AISHA ILYAD Toronto, a city with a population of more than 2 million people and home to 6 million people in The Greater Toronto Area, is one of the most multicultural cities in the world and is ranked as the…
Make good $$$ as a professional odour tester, chocolate taster and other strange careers
BY JACK M. Tired of the nine-to-five grind at the office? No future at the factory assembly line? Bored with that commission-only job in retail? Or maybe you’re still looking around for your first real job after finishing school. If…
Why Psychopaths Are Great “CEO Material”
BY: ANGIE PICCIRILLO For anyone who has ever worked in a hostile corporate environment, the intense personalities of executives are all too familiar and far too scary. These peoples’ personalities can be described as devious, competitive and lacking empathy. They…
In 2017, you can buy a robot chef that will mimic the world’s best cooks
BY: DANIEL KORN One of my favourite bits of technology in Star Trek is the “Replicator,” a big grey box that can materialize any object you tell it to. Its most common use in the show is for food and…
You might lose your creative job to a robot sooner than you think
Drawing upon the warnings of past industrial alarmists like Karl Marx or Ned Ludd, CGP Grey warns of the imposing threat of technology. History has shown us that technology often does not embrace the past, but rather overwrites it. Mechanical…