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CHARBONNEAU – AI is hungry for electricity, thirsty for water

May 23, 2024 // 0 Comments

WE HEAR A LOT about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence but little about mundane things such as how to feed the lumbering savant. The promise is that generative [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Huxley’s futuristic solution to the ‘drug problem’

May 9, 2024 // 7 Comments

ALDOUS HUXLEY came up with a solution to the drug problem of the day in his dystopian novel Brave New World. Huxley’s book is set in the World State city of London in AD [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Robots could learn from the lowly flatworm

May 2, 2024 // 1 Comment

WE CREATE ROBOTS in our own image. Or, in the way we imagine ourselves. We imagine ourselves as calculating machines with all the processing going on in our brains. Bodies [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Premier Smith waffles on federal help to cities

April 25, 2024 // 0 Comments

ALBERTA PREMIER Danielle Smith must wake up each morning and think: How can I stick it to the feds today? That’s the purpose of Smith’s Bill 18, the Provincial Priorities [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – How will history write this age of tumult?

April 18, 2024 // 3 Comments

WE LIVE IN AN AGE of upheaval and uncertainty. How will it end? What was the start? Did our current epoch start with the havoc of COVID: supply chain disruptions with panic [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Instead of axing the tax, axe the subsidies to Big Oil

April 13, 2024 // 3 Comments

CANADIANS MAY BE OUTRAGED at the carbon tax/rebate but give little thought to the subsidies they give Big Oil. The corporate fat cats would rather keep quiet your gift to [Continue]