Metaviews

Our relationship with photography has evolved dramatically over the last few decades. What was once a relatively scarce skill, has never been more accessible and relevant to people’s lives. For example the selfie has come to represent a pillar of our culture, and yet as a technique, it remained out of reach for most people until the 21st century.

While there’s considerable potential for automation and robots in agriculture, there’s also a lot of variables that influence not only possible success, but whether such systems are viable in the first place.

Infections of the novel coronavirus are surging in my home province of Ontario. This is not yet a result of back to school, but rather reflects the socializing and activity that took place in the end of August and beginning of September

A brief preface to today’s issue, check out the latest podcast episode from Municipal World, where I provide a general overview of the Future Fibre series (to date).

There’s certainly some special status that comes with being recognized as the fastest ISP, especially if you’re community owned and operated. We previously profiled EPB, the Electric Power Board of Chattanooga Tennessee, who have been able to lay claim to the title in the past.

In yesterday’s issue we looked at GPT-3 from a technical perspective, in today’s issue let’s delve into the philosophy surrounding it. After all, technology as we know it today is as much philosophical or even ideological as it is technological.

The problem with data is that it is for all practical purposes an entirely abstract concept. As a word it has become pervasive in our culture, mentioned in all sorts of contexts, and regularly referred to as commodity, property, and fuel.