Perspectives
The Industrial Revolution
The industrial revolution changed the way work was done in the same way that the technology revolution is changing work today. The old cottage system of work migrated to larger units of production, particularly as the availability of centralized power made it possible...
Email Statistics
If computers, voice mail and cell phones weren’t enough to overwhelm the typical corporate user and blur the boundaries between work and home then email was the next nail in the coffin. In case you have forgotten, Email started in 1965 as a way for multiple users of a...
The life of the Peasant Farmer
A blog about feudalism recently showed that the system worked for the peasant farmer much better than it does for us now. "In a recent chat at the highly literary Hay Festival in Wales, Andrew Simms and David Boyle, authors of The New Economics: A Bigger Picture and...
Mobile Phone Statistics
Mobile phone technology, while not increasing the volume of data or the volume of communications received by an individual on a daily basis, certainly started to blur the boundaries of home and office and by working and vacations by making it possible to reach people...
Feudalism
When you come right down to it, the way we work is very similar to the way people worked in the pre-industrialized middle ages. While we don’t call it Feudalism anymore, the effect is quite the same. Feudalism in its heyday was the exchange of land for military...
15 Greatest Canadian Inventions
In the course of looking for background on Canadian Inventions, I came upon a list of the top 50 Canadian Inventions (Five-Pin Bowling is number 4). This list came out of a show put on by the CBC (who else) in 2007. Following on the heels of the Greatest Canadian this...
Top 10 Canadian Websites
Top 10 Canadian Websites I like to keep track of who’s watching what so I turn to Alexa.com frequently to figure out what people are doing when they’re surfing the net. I know, I know, Alexa’s stats are flawed, blah, blah, blah, but it is a quick and dirty tool for...