Author Archives: Alistair

24 hours in Virtual Reality

January 5, 2016 – 2:39 pm by Alistair 0 Comments

I’m going to spend 24 hours in VR this year. Here’s why—and a plea for your help getting there.

Unlocking our future past

December 16, 2015 – 10:08 pm by Alistair 0 Comments

In a few years, algorithms will be able to describe video content as well as humans can. Unlocking the pent up information in petabytes of video will have wide-ranging impacts on society.

Dear Canada: Stop apologizing

November 30, 2015 – 10:53 pm by Alistair 0 Comments

It’s time to stop writing press releases and start hacking markets. Because the world’s best startups have a dirty secret: they’re all a little bit evil.

This trifecta drives the next decade of tech

October 15, 2015 – 4:49 pm by Alistair 4 Comments

Big data, smart agents, and new interfaces are cool on their own. But together, they’re a virtuous cycle that shows what the next decade of tech looks like.

Can we fix representation?

August 24, 2015 – 5:54 pm by Alistair 3 Comments

Representative government is broken. But now we’re all connected, maybe syndicates can fix it?

Can tech fix our carrying capacity?

July 31, 2015 – 2:19 pm by Alistair 0 Comments

We humans invent things like sanitation, or disease resistant wheat strains, to increase our carrying capacity. But can new technology features do the same?