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The Future of Media Is Beyond The Screen

Mitch Joel | Posted 04.21.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Airplay, Connected Appliances, Wearable Technology, 3D Printing, Apple TV, Robotics, Digital Media, 3D Printer, Digital Advertising, Screenless Media, Digital Ads, The Future of Media, Canada Business News
Mitch Joel

The next half century could well be about advertising taking on a smaller position in the expanding marketing sphere as brands create loyalty not through impressions but by creating tools, applications, physical devices, true utility, and more robust loyalty extensions that makes them more valuable in a consumer's life. It will be interesting to see which brands embrace media beyond the screen.

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15 Countries Where Robots Are Taking Over

The Huffington Post Canada | Daniel Tencer | Posted 01.09.2013 | Canada Business
Read More: Robots and Income Gap, Robots and Income Inequality, Income Gap and Robots, Are Robots Taking Our Jobs, Robot Revolution, Mind the Gap, Robotics, Countries Where Robots Are Taking Over, Robots, Income Inequality and Robots, Canada Business News

Let’s face it: Robots are taking our jobs. The International Federation of Robotics carries out an annual survey of the state on the robot busine...

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Ottawa Lab Building Advanced Robot

CBC | Posted 03.21.2012 | Canada
Read More: Ottawa Lab Robots, Video, Cbc, University of Ottawa Robots, Robotics, Emil Petriu Robots, Robots, Ottawa Robots, Canada News

Canadian scientists are developing a robot that mimics the human face's expressions and human hand’s tactile processes, which they say ...

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The Morality of Drone Attacks

Bessma Momani | Posted 12.11.2011 | Canada
Read More: Yemen, Drone Attacks, Afghanistan, Anwar Al-Awlaki, Drone Combat, War, Drone Warfare, Robotics, Morality, Drone, Robots, Legality, Al Qaeda, Lars, Canada News
Bessma Momani

Human beings are attempting to codify the set of ideal characteristics, virtues, moral commands, moral dispositions and even the capacity of judgment into a set of algorithms to then impart to a machine. However, for thousands of years, humanity has attempted to create good people, without much success.

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