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It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly

19/01/2025 avi maxwel

In the fall of 2016—the year in which the proportion of online adults using social media reached eighty per cent—I published an Op-Ed in the Times that questioned the popular conception that you need to cultivate a strong social-media brand to succeed in the job market. “I think this behavior is misguided,” I wrote. “In a capitalist economy, the market rewards things that are rare and valuable. Social media use is decidedly not rare or valuable.” I suggested that knowledge workers instead spend time developing useful skills, with the goal of distinguishing themselves in their chosen fields. The article took off, driven by a provocative title added by my editors: “Quit Social Media. Your Career May Depend on It.” For a brief period, it even topped the paper’s most-e-mailed list.

The backlash soon followed. The CBC invited me on a national radio program to discuss the essay; I was surprised,

How the growth of wearable technology is transforming football

17/01/2025 avi maxwel

It was not so long ago that professional footballers would treat their bodies with little more care than a Sunday league player.

“At Liverpool, if we played an away game in the late ’90s, we’d get onto the team bus and there would be a couple of crates of lager,” Michael Owen tells The Athletic.

“You’d have to tick a box before kick-off to say whether you wanted chicken and chips or fish and chips after the game — and by the time you were halfway home, the whole bus was engulfed in cigarette smoke.”

Fast forward to 2023 and modern-day football is worlds apart from the amateur game, most notably due to the detail with which players’ performance is objectively monitored — from the volume of passes made to the blades of grass covered.

We have grown accustomed to seeing players wear a GPS (global positioning system) sports

The Digital Divide: Can Technology Support Vernacular Architecture?

14/01/2025 avi maxwel

The Digital Divide: Can Technology Support Vernacular Architecture?

Village houses set in the landscape of Madagascar’s central highlands. Image © Bernd Bieder

The architecture and construction industry has undergone a transformation with the integration of various digital tools, now indispensable to the design process. The welcoming of technologies has effectively streamlined operations, enhanced efficiency, and elevated design quality. This digital shift, however, has resulted in a digital divide that goes beyond accessibility to tools and software. It also encompasses the crucial aspect of integrating traditional and indigenous communities into the urban development landscape. Can advancing technology support the growth of vernacular architecture? Can indigenous building practices find a place in the vision for a digitalized future?

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An industry traditionally slow to adopt technology has been revolutionized primarily with the introduction of computer-aided design (CAD) software. Digital tools have enabled

Skiing: A new artificial snow-making technology could offer a lifeline to struggling resorts

13/01/2025 avi maxwel

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Nestled in the Pyrenees mountains, La Molina is Spain’s oldest ski resort. It boasts the biggest superpipe in the Pyrenees and its slopes have hosted high-profile events, from the Alpine Skiing World Cup to the Snowboard World Championships. But La Molina now faces an existential threat: A dearth of snow.

As global temperatures rise, the resort, like many around the world, is being forced to rely increasingly on artificial snow.

But fake snow comes at a cost. It is both water and energy intensive — a difficult combination anywhere but especially in a country grappling with a prolonged and severe drought fueled by climate change.

That’s why La Molina will spend the next three years testing a new snowmaking technique that promises to be far less resource intensive, as well as being able to produce snow at warmer temperatures — increasingly important as some resorts are approaching temperatures

NFL tested technology to track 1st downs during games including Super Bowl: reports

10/01/2025 avi maxwel

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The NFL’s use of technology may finally be used to determine first downs.

Multiple reports out of the NFL Scouting Combine on Thursday noted the league tested technology to track first downs during multiple games this past season, including Super Bowl LVIII between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers.

While the optical technology is reportedly not ready to be used for the 2024 season, it could very well be implemented when it is.

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