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Archive for November, 2008

More People Recognize Canada’s Digital Backwardness

Friday, November 28th, 2008

A CBC blog has a short but observant post about Canada’s digital backwardness.  More interesting are the comments.  One commenter writes: If Canada wants to draw creative, educated professionals, it’s going to have to foster a progressive environment which is attractive to digitally-able, post-materialist, 21st-century citizens. Wow.  Not sure I could agree more with this.  Hopefully [...]

Canada Won’t be Competitive in the 21st Century

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008

  Its dangerous to draw conclusions from history that is too fresh, but I’m going to anyway. Canada is a country with an essentially pre-industrial economy.  What I mean by that is our economy is based almost entirely or natural resource extraction.  Sure our extraction methods are more advanced today, but in essence ours is still a pre-industrial [...]

Uncomfy School Chairs Hamper Learning

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

I took a photography class a little while ago. It was held at a local high school. I has been a few decades since I’ve even been inside of a public school. I’ve never been a fan of public school. The only thing I can say I learned in high school was how to type. [...]