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City Tom Ryaboi Posted on September 03, 2011 Report Inaccuracy City Tom Ryaboi Posted on September 03, 2011 Report Inaccuracy Latest Videos Toronto is a hub of photography. In addition to being one of the most photographed cities in the world, some of the best professional and amateur photographers…

Most people view creativity as an asset -- until they come across a creative idea. That's because creativity not only reveals new perspectives; it promotes a sense of uncertainty. The next time your great idea at work elicits silence or eye rolls, you might just pity those co-workers. Fresh research…

First This has been the summer that liberal discontent with Obama has finally crystallized. The frustration has been simmering for a while — through centrist appointments, bank bailouts and the defeat of the public option, to name a few examples. But it has taken the debt-ceiling standoff and the…

Now for some good news! Emily Maltby has a wonderful and timely article in this morning’s Wall Street Journal, Where the Action Is. She points out that seven cities across the USA are already fostering the kind of industrial commons that have been disappearing so fast. “Across the country,” she…

In many of the generous retweets of my articles, Why Amazon Can’t Manufacture A Kindle In The USA, and Does It Really Matter?, I saw comments like “a sad review of American manufacturing's decline” or “disturbing piece on the loss of US manufacturing.” These comments, while being correct as far as…

Does it matter? One question was: does it really matter? For instance, one reader (“ssaikia”) said that my article reflected “Flawed Logic.” He wrote If another country is able to manufacture at a lower cost companies such as Dell are doing absolutely the right thing to outsource to a foreign…

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August 26, 2011 4 min read Add Us On GoogleAdd SciAm Cities in Fact and Fiction: An Interview with William Gibson Author of the cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, William Gibson talks about the relationship between his fiction and the contemporary urban landscape The city looms large in the fiction of…

An economist is someone who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. Old joke based on Oscar Wilde’s quip about a cynic. I recently noted how conventional cost accounting inexorably focuses executives' attention on increasing short-term profits by cutting costs. The same thing happens…

Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, has been, by all accounts, a sales success, with over one million copies downloaded on its first day of release and undoubtedly millions more since. These stellar sales results do not necessarily reflect a perfect product, but merely one that has been much discussed and long…

Andrew Tolson To hear the uproar in Toronto, an avid book borrower might be forgiven for imagining that Canadian libraries are coming under financial siege. The administration of the city’s right-leaning, populist mayor, Rob Ford, is taking a hard look at closing branches of the Toronto Public…

Fiction August 29, 2011 ADRIAN TOMINE At Koenji Station, Tengo boarded the Chuo Line inbound rapid-service train. The car was empty. He had nothing planned that day. Wherever he went and whatever he did (or didn’t do) was entirely up to him. It was ten o’clock on a windless summer morning, and the…

Machine Learning & AIThe great digital buy-in: What retail CIOs hope AI transformation delivers in 2026The great digital buy-in: What retail CIOs hope AI transformation delivers in 2026Tech leadership from Target, Abercrombie & Fitch, PepsiCo and others shared a few pages from their AI playbooks at…

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Innovation Implosion My friends at Startup Genome just released a report on why startups fail. After analyzing surveys from 3,200 startups they concluded that of the majority of startups that failed, 70% fail because of premature scaling. Although, I did not run the analysis, based on the research I…

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by David Roth and David Raposa David Raposa: So did you see my public plea to read Frank Deford’s abominable plan to destroy baseball? David Roth: I feel for him. I like Frank Deford as an idea, and sometimes as a writer. I will always ride for an old sportswriter who rocks elbow-patch blazers and…

The sun sets over Coors Field in Denver. While summer nights are perfect for baseball, late-season games can get a little chilly. Doug Pensinger/Getty Images When baseball fell into its current schedule more than a century ago, the national pastime owned the sporting landscape. There was no…

The jaw-dropping intricacy of the libraries of old, with their leaded glass windows and tiers of dark wood shelves, is being replaced in favor of clean lines, open spaces and a focus on new technology in library architecture of the late 20th century and beyond. These 14 (more!) modern libraries are…

For some 20 years, Vancouver was a jewel in Canada’s video-game industry. It was home to the first Canadian companies that developed games, and as the interactive-entertainment sector grew, so did the studios in the Lower Mainland. Today, though, Vancouver is no longer the largest centre of…

Will books, as we know them, come to an end? Yes, absolutely, within 25 years the digital revolution will bring about the end of paper books. But more importantly, ebooks and e-publishing will mean the end of "the writer" as a profession. Ebooks, in the future, will be written by first-timers, by…

It feels like your comedy is so much cooler than mine. You’ve never done an open mic before. Instead you did Fez. You did Luna Lounge. You did the old Largo. You did Eating It. You did Invite Them Up. You did Tinkle. You did Rififi. You did Comedy Death Ray. You did Big Terrific. You did Meltdown…

Fiction December 3, 2007 Photograph by Bastienne Schmidt, “Impact Stills” (2007) It began the usual way, in the bathroom of the Lassimo Hotel. Sasha was adjusting her yellow eyeshadow in the mirror when she noticed a bag on the floor beside the sink that must have belonged to the woman whose peeing…

So Francisco Cervelli hit a big home run and clapped his hands in celebration as he stepped on the plate, directly under the nose of Red Sox catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia. The next pitch Cervelli saw hit him square in the back. It certainly looked incriminating, and although pitcher John Lackey…

Michelle Williams and Shirley Henderson in Kelly Reichardt's “Meek's Cutoff.”Credit...Oscilloscope Laboratories WHAT is boring? This question was inspired by a piece in the May 1 edition of The New York Times Magazine by Dan Kois that offered a cheerful conformist’s take on what in certain circles…