Power, Corruption and Lies

by | Jun 3, 2020 | Truth

Recent history is replete with positive and negative examples of what can happen to a democratic society when the advancement of technology outpaces regulatory momentum. “States are not moral agents.  People are.” – Noam Chomsky Not since the advent of the...
Reinventing the Second Wheel

Reinventing the Second Wheel

by | May 28, 2020 | Featured, Truth

“How does one measure the success of a museum?” – J. Paul Getty It has often been said that humanity’s most diffusive periods of economic growth were accomplished when disparate forces came together to solve the seemingly unsolvable. One need only look to the...

Year Zero

by | May 20, 2020 | Truth

“The future and eternity are two entirely different things.” – Douglas Coupland As Millennials contemplate being the first generation since the industrial revolution to have a lower standard of living than their parents, and Gen-X and late Boomers contemplate being...

Mother Nature’s Son

by | May 20, 2020 | Truth

“The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” – Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene III Calgary, the historical heart of the Canadian oil and gas industry, is at a once-in-an-epoch inflection point that will determine our destiny...

American History in Binary Code

by | May 20, 2020 | Truth

“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.” – Bob Dylan Ones and zeros. Where do they go when you throw away your computer? It may sound like a philosophical question, but given the ever-increasing adoption of personal computing devices of all sizes, it...