Robot Sex

“It’s not good or bad to be a robot. It’s just a thing.”

Paper versus digital reading

Accessibility is important, but not everyone likes reading from a screen. Are e-books changing literacy for better or worse?

What do deep fakes mean for politics?

Deep fake tech is one of the most worrying consequences of rapid artificial intelligence (AI) advancement. In an interview with the Brookings Institution research group Nick Dufour, a research engineer at Google, proclaimed that deep fakes “have allowed people to claim that video evidence that would otherwise be very compelling is a fake.”

Get ready for AI journalism

Stock Screen

Artificial intelligence (AI) isn’t going away anytime soon, but many fear jobs are. Journalism is one of the latest fields being impacted by AI.

Put down your phones

In this image: A person using a cellphone.

When our cellphones become barriers to connection, we forget about living in the moment. Although often unintentional, it also can be damaging.

Baby Boomers to Gen Z

Welcome to Dalhousie University, Generation Z.   In 2014, Maclean’s told us Gen Z-ers are “smarter than Boomers, and way more ambitious than the Millennials.”   If we believe the predictions, Gen Z will soon outnumber both. The Boomers who […]

The sensation of sexting

People are linking their sexuality to their phones. That’s the future. We’re becoming more and more involved in technology in ways we couldn’t have imagined. Digital dirty talk is so accessible […]

Encouraging women in STEM fields

Parents, teachers and peers are unintentionally pushing young girls away from taking courses in the “STEM” field – science, technology, engineering and math – based on biases. “The myths include: […]