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I remember the moment vividly: I looked down and realized my phone was covered in flour. “That can’t be good,” I thought to myself. How else would I share this beautiful experience of baking bread? I need photos! Instagram! Snapchat!
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Last September, I bought my first smartphone. The next day, I flew home to Ottawa because my father had been moved into a hospice and the doctors said he wouldn’t have long.
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Smart phones give us instant connection to friends far away – and often distance from those sitting next to us. They give access to global information – and fake news. Increased safety for teens – and cyber-bullying. Direct participation in political life – and interference in elections.
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There was a time in the distant past when “distance education” meant sending letters to an instructor far away by post. In the long-distant past, you could do distance education by sending cassette tapes to an instructor in the mail. And just yesterday, distance education was about sitting down in front of a desktop or laptop computer and doing education over the internet.
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Young and perhaps foolish, we were trying to figure out the source of a famous quotation from Shakespeare while drinking a few beers at Pat-‘n’-Steve’s house. I disremember which quotation, but it may have been “They do not love that do not show their love.”
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This summer, many teens decided – or, in some cases, had their parents decide for them – to put down their phones for a week and head to different cities across the country to participate in SERVE where they helped the homeless, the hungry and anyone else who needed a hand.
Our kids love a song by Steve Poltz and Danny Michel called “Devices.” With a chorus of “Get off your devices / They’ve all become vices,” these Canadian singer-songwriters don’t mince words about the negative impact of phones and tablets.
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From where I sit, I see little that connects the intelligence community (CSIS, CIA, etc.) with the medical practice of my doctor. But a recent perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine suggests it might be beneficial for the medical world to explore how the intelligence world is handling information.
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Earlier this semester I entered my senior computer science class and greeted my students wearing a T-shirt that boldly declared: “Join the Anti-Revolution Party!” One of the topics for that day was the “Silicon Valley narrative” which seeks wholesale revolution by disrupting the current ways of doing things through technology.
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Two Canadian researchers, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, were the 2018 winners of the million dollar Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award (often called the Nobel Prize of computing) along with American Yann LeCun.
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The moon and stars, flocks and herds, wild animals, birds and fish. Psalm 8 lists each of these as part of God’s creation. But how do computers fit into creation?
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Technology has brought remarkable changes to the world, and these changes are accelerating with new advances in medicine, 3D printing, artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles and the worldwide “internet of things,” to name only a few. The most dramatic change, however, may be invisible to us – a change to the way we think.
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