Tag Archives: future

Dead reckoning and getting unstuck

Posted on May 4, 2010 by Bill Wren

Sometimes to go forward we need to go back. It’s a cliché, but to know where we’re headed we need to know where we are. To know where we are we need to know where we’ve been. In The Friday … Continue reading →

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Trade-offs and other matters of concern

Posted on November 1, 2009 by Bill Wren

In New Brunswick, there are several battles going on: the one between the power deal with Quebec and the H1N1 vaccine for top news story. Then there’s the one within that power deal between the those for and those against. … Continue reading →

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Twitter, statistics and speculation

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Bill Wren

Allow me to inebriate some sober numbers … When we talk about Facebook and Twitter, cars and bikes, business and the arts, we are always self-referential. We think a certain way, we use something in a certain way, we believe … Continue reading →

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What Star Trek did to me

Posted on April 23, 2009 by Bill Wren

I suppose I shouldn’t restrict this to Star Trek since it was science fiction generally that affected how I see the world. It should be stressed however, it was not any science fiction. It was the science fiction of the … Continue reading →

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Today’s speculative musing – the end of us?

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Bill Wren

As I read Nicholas Carr’s The Big Switch I wonder, as I have before, are we making ourselves redundant? By “we,” I mean us. Human beings. As computerization does so many wonderful things for us, one of those wonderful things … Continue reading →

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