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Sep. 07, 2018 / Ken Ohrn

Friday Funny — New Tech Got You Baffled?

I’m afraid it’s a well-known problem.  People just need help to get the hang of new tech — witness this…
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Oct. 09, 2017 / Gordon Price

Training Consumers for Technology

I saw a first the other day at the local Safeway. No, not the self-service scanner technology.  It’s been in…
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Sep. 28, 2017 / Gordon Price

Garbage Talk

This is interesting for several reasons: Ever seen a sanitation department use language like that? It’s a pro-active approach to…
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Jan. 26, 2017 / Ken Ohrn

When the Factories Come Back Home

Scott Gilmore writes in Macleans about companies returning manufacturing operations to North America (“re-shoring”). And bringing their robots with them. He…
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Dec. 28, 2016 / Ken Ohrn

Big Software Services Sale

Or:  there’s gold in them-thar smartphones. Vancouver tech company “PayByPhone” has a new owner – Volkswagen Financial Services AG. Thanks…
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Sep. 21, 2016 / Gordon Price

Driving out the Humans – 3

From The Guardian: The automated city: do we still need humans to run public services? From driverless buses to an AI…
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Aug. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

Course: Transport Planning and Technology

PT is pleased to post this notice from Clark Lim, the principal of Acuere Consulting and an instructor in the SFU…
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Aug. 05, 2016 / Gordon Price

'Anxious and Powerless' – Driverless Cars in BC

From Business in Vancouver: A survey of more than 1,000 Insurance Corporation of BC (ICBC) customers found that half of…
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Jul. 22, 2016 / Gordon Price

Tech and Transportation: The future is already here

Two tech items from the New York Times: Big City is watching you. It will do it with camera-equipped drones…
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May. 24, 2016 / Gordon Price

Japan: Some Startling Observations

From ULI’s UrbanLand magazine:   . Takeshi Natsuno, professor at the Keio University school of media and governance, bluntly said…
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May. 20, 2016 / Gordon Price

Flypaper: Is this a joke?

Hard to tell: . It’s from Streetsblog US here.…
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May. 19, 2016 / Gordon Price

Daily Scot is going to make your life better today

pricetags: At least he’s improved mine. In a comment below, Scot recommended a most amazing app: This is the app…
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May. 13, 2016 / Gordon Price

Autonomous Vehicles and City Building

Sandy James: This piece has just come out from Ryerson on the issue of autonomous vehicles. I took one look…
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Apr. 20, 2016 / Gordon Price

Truck Platooning has arrived

Not quite ready for prime time – but already on the roads.  From The Guardian:     “Truck platooning” involves…

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