No sooner had we dispatched our October issue, featuring a special report on innovation, to the printers than some counterintuitive news came to light. In contrast to the history of technology companies, ideas and talent leaving the province – a fact we sought solutions to in our cover story, “Building the Economy of Ideas” – we learned that Radient Technologies Inc. was relocating its operations from Ontario and British Columbia to the Edmonton Research Park. (more…)
I’ve long meditated on how the drift of commercial technology tends to be towards lowering the quality of the experience for the sake of convenience – decreasing the bandwidth in favour of reach, if you will. (more…)