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[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] The Great Disconnect
“I already pay for the Internet. The implication: why would I pay extra for the newspaper, movies or music? This is a feeling shared by a significant number of Internet…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Reading is bad: it gives ideas
The disaster is here. In a small 181-page book that looks like an unbridled reactionary manifesto, two CEGEP philosophy professors rage against the increasingly common use of digital technologies at…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] How to save the planet without running out of steam
There are ads everywhere. The proof: the Royal Bank managed last fall to embroider its logo on the front of the jersey of the Montreal Canadiens. On your wireless too,…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Praise be Amazon!
Health is priceless. For everything else, there is a subscription plan. In a world where we can no longer afford anything, life in permanent rental is becoming the solution to…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] GPT-4, the exponential leap after ChatGPT
The speed at which artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving is already insane. The expected arrival towards the end of 2023 of GPT-4, the next generation of the system that brings…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] TikTok, soon in Odorama
Many refuse to admit it, but we’ve all shed at least one tear at the end of a particularly emotional film. Who has ever cried because of a video game?…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] What if Zuckerberg was right?
There are many people who roll their eyes at the mere mention of the term “metaverse”. Meta Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg is giving himself ten years to confound these…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] All against Elon Musk and Elon Musk against all!
If you’re the richest man on the planet, you’re building a private planetary Internet, you’ve just got your hands on a digital communications network already reaching 300 million people, and…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] The artificial intelligence that reads our thoughts
Created quietly in recent years, the Montreal application Waverly officially comes out of the shadows today. It relies on the ability of its algorithms to understand the natural language of…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Why unplug 5G?
This is not a conspiracy. Disconnect 5G? is the title of a work published today by a collective of French researchers grouped around Jean-Michel Hupé, himself associated with the French…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] It’s time for Apple to save Android
Steve Jobs was a fierce capitalist. Yet he understood the importance of industry standards. For him, it seemed to go without saying: messaging on the iPhone should eventually become an…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Apple’s MacBook Air M2: midnight plus two
The new MacBook Air that Apple is bringing to market this summer comes with two new features: a new M2 processor, fast and enduring, and a blue-black casing laconically called…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Apple’s MacBook Air M2: midnight plus two
The new MacBook Air that Apple is bringing to market this summer comes with two new features: a new M2 processor, fast and enduring, and a blue-black casing laconically called…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Your credit card is hiding a fortune from you
If your monthly credit card statement feels like a litany of gibberish, you’re not alone. Mastercard and Visa are just waiting for the signal from the banks to clean up.…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Marshall McLuhan predicted Instagram 60 years ago
Canadian media philosopher Marshall McLuhan is best known for popularizing the idea of a “global village” long before the advent of the Internet. But that’s not the most amazing prediction…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] Win the Stanley Cup, lose the Canadian Internet
The final series that should lead a National Hockey League team to drink champagne from the Stanley Cup begins any day now. And while there will definitely be a winning…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] A hard drug called TikTok
Studies follow one another which show that the mechanisms used by social networks like TikTok and Instagram to always hook their users a little more cause an addiction comparable to…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] The billionaire’s new bucket list
To be a billionaire, you obviously have to have at least a billion dollars. Some would say it’s better to have a billion dollars in assets. It avoids having too…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] The new challenges of full employment
A not-so-new term has replaced the issue of labor shortages in conversations in Quebec’s tech sector these days. Quebec is currently experiencing this phenomenon that we thought was exclusive to…
[Chronique d’Alain McKenna] The incomparable Canadian wireless
Few topics are more unanimous in Canada than the cost of wireless services. They’re that expensive. Why ? There, opinions differ. Because to get an idea, we would have to…