Offline: The coming technocracy

Symbolic Significance of Yeats's "The Second Coming"

Decentralized Banking: Monetary Technocracy in the Digital Age

Bitcoin has ushered in the age of blockchain-based digital currency systems. Secured by cryptography and computing power, and distributed across a decentralized network of anonymous nodes, these novel systems could potentially disrupt the way that monetary policy is administered – moving away from today’s human-fallible central bankers and towards a technocratic, rules-based algorithmic approac...

Beyond functionality and technocracy: creating human involvement with educational technology

Innovation of education is highly topical. It is obviously boosted by a range of new technologies, which enable new modes of learning that, are independent of time and place through Web-based delivery and computer-mediated communication. However, innovators in education often encounter intrinsic conservatism or even deliberate obstructions. For innovators it is important to be aware of and to u...

The Second Coming

The definitions and characteristics of the out-of-body experience were examined. It was concluded that none of the various definitions are specific enough wRh regard to the idea of an actual physical split between the consciousness and the body. The experimental evidence was outlined, the weaknesses highlighted and alternative explanations were given. The out-of-body experience associated with ...

The microbes are coming.

1332 CMAJ, August 9, 2011, 183(11) © 2011 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors So, your three months of dieting have gone really well, but it still feels like the weight wants to come back on. Maybe your gut feeling is spot on. What if you’re harbouring trillions of little microbes that simply won’t accept this dieting stuff and are “telling” your brain to get back to your plump old se...