Sixty-five per cent of the American respondents and 62.1 per cent of the Chinese ones said people have become less considerate, helpful or cooperative over a sixty-year span reaching a few years into the future. Twenty-three per cent of...
A teacher in Greece opens a survey link and finds a student’s exercise on screen. Five parts, each already labelled correct or incorrect. Underneath sits a mark somebody else has given: five out of ten. The only thing left...
Canadian organizations may be eager to adopt artificial intelligence, but finding the capital to turn AI plans into working systems remains a challenge.
An upcoming virtual event from MacKay CEO Forums aims to help business leaders better understand the funding...
A man in my building told me last month that he has read everything I’ve published and has never once left a comment. He said it in the lift, somewhere between the ninth floor and the ground, in the...
There is a man on my floor who waters the corridor plants nobody asked him to water. He is eighty-six. Last month I watched a server at the noodle shop downstairs take his order, listen to it, then turn...
The qualities that help someone look like a leader are not always the qualities that help a particular team do its best work.
Talkativeness is visible. Assertiveness sounds like certainty. Someone who speaks readily, takes charge and occupies attention can...
The silicon spin quantum computer, which stores information based on the rotation of individual electrons, has been developed by quantum computing pioneer Diraq and will initially provide eight qubits, the quantum computing world’s basic unit of computational power.
Quantum computers...
“I need this truck moved, you’re making me late for work.”
Three hundred American adults read that line on Prolific, one chunk at a time, tapping the space bar to reveal the next few words. The people who wrote it...
When people picture a high-growth founder, they often picture someone barely old enough to rent the garage.
The familiar character is brilliant, restless and unburdened by a long career. He leaves university, writes software through the night and understands a...
Fifty-two minutes of work followed by 17 minutes away from the screen has the irresistible shape of a productivity formula. The numbers are specific, memorable and easy to turn into a timer.
They came from a 2014 analysis by DeskTime,...
