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Take It Personally: What the Referendum Means to You (Issue #288)
Personalization: The Quiet Reversal of a Hundred Years of Sameness For most of the last century, progress meant making things the same…
Most Recent Perspectives
Sovereignty, Commons—and a Rather Large “What If?” (Issue #287)
September at the KEI Network has been devoted to the future economy: the forces…
The Future Economy Will Not Wait (Issue #286)
What intangible assets, artificial intelligence, data centres and crisis teach us about managing change.…
Who Defends the Cloud? (Special Perspective)
This Thursday’s KEI Network podcast, “AI, Data Centres and Trouble Ahead,” examines the rapid…
The KEI Network is comprised of an international array of contacts interested in the forces and sources of change. Through our newsletters and public webinars we explore leadership and the clash of public and private interests, innovation and the impact of emerging technologies, including your views, panelists and guests.
Perspectives & Podcasts
The October Series
September asked what the future economy looks like. October’s answer begins here: Personalization.
Week 1
#287 Sovereignty
Week 2
#288 The Referendum
Week 3
#289 Safety First
Week 4
#290 Personalization
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Take It Personally: What the Referendum Means to You (Issue #288)
Personalization: The Quiet Reversal of a Hundred Years of Sameness For most of the last century, progress meant making things the same for everyone. The same curriculum, the same broadcast, the same office hours, the same form letter from the…
Sovereignty, Commons—and a Rather Large “What If?” (Issue #287)
September at the KEI Network has been devoted to the future economy: the forces reshaping work, technology, investment, institutions and the assumptions upon which prosperity has been built. October may be rather less tidy. October has long had a reputation…
The Future Economy Will Not Wait (Issue #286)
What intangible assets, artificial intelligence, data centres and crisis teach us about managing change. Throughout September, the KEI Network’s In Search of the Future Economy series examined intangible assets, Canada’s adoption of artificial intelligence, the expansion of data centres and…
Who Defends the Cloud? (Special Perspective)
This Thursday’s KEI Network podcast, “AI, Data Centres and Trouble Ahead,” examines the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure and the questions it raises about electricity, water, land, community costs and economic benefit. One question deserves attention: Who protects the AI…
AI, Data Centres and Trouble Ahead (Issue #285)
Artificial intelligence is arriving with the force of a technological and economic tsunami. It promises breakthroughs in healthcare, education, scientific discovery, productivity and public administration. Yet it also unsettles assumptions about employment, privacy, democracy and human relevance. As explored in…
Canada’s Next Economic Challenge: A Call to Chamber Leadership (Issue #284)
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are the backbone of Canada’s economy. More than 98% of Canadian businesses are small or medium-sized enterprises. Together they employ approximately two-thirds of Canada’s private-sector workforce and generate well over half of the country’s private-sector…
Exposing The Hidden Economy: Why Accounting for Intangible Assets Matters (Issue #283)
The KEI Network begins its September series, In Search of the Future Economy, with a basic question: are we still measuring the economy we actually have? Traditional accounting was built for an industrial age dominated by factories, machinery and physical…
Fact or Fiction: Data Centres Are Safe
Artificial intelligence may live in the cloud, but the cloud has a very large physical footprint. Behind every AI query are enormous data centres consuming electricity, requiring cooling, occupying land and connecting to transmission systems. As governments race to capture…
A New Chapter Begins
For more than twenty years, the KEI Network has been built around a simple belief: that informed citizens, thoughtful leaders, and open dialogue can strengthen our communities, our economy, and our democracy. Join us on our new mission as the Network evolves into a broader platform for ideas, with modernized publications, webinars, and new ways to participate in and support what comes next.
Perry Kinkaide
Founder, KEI Network
Upcoming Events
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Canada's 51st State Counteroffer
Friday · 7:15 am MDT
Rotary Club of St. Albert, Food Bank
Perry Kinkaide presents "Canada's 51st State Counteroffer" for the Rotary Club of St. Albert, October 30, 7:15 AM.
Books & Series
New Book
The Lost Commons: Human Relevance Under Siege
20 years. 1,000 voices. ONE book. Be among the first to experience the audiobook and the book’s fall release.
Perry S. Kinkaide has spent a lifetime exploring the intersection of technology, institutions, human behaviour, and social change. In The Lost Commons: Human Relevance Under Siege, he asks a fundamental question: how do we remain relevant, and sovereign, in an increasingly automated world?AI, democracy, creativity, listening, human relevance and the future of civic society.
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