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Perry Kinkaide
Perry Kinkaide, MSc, PhD, CMC, has spent over 50 years working across academia, government, and the corporate and non-profit worlds. He earned his PhD in Brain Research from the University of Alberta and spent 14 years with the Alberta Government before leading KPMG Consulting's Knowledge Management practice in Edmonton.
Since retiring in 2001, Perry has founded and led the Alberta Council of Technologies Society, now a subscriber base of over 20,000, and built KEI Network from a personal list of 15,000 contacts into a platform for connecting experts, entrepreneurs, and leaders across industries. Alberta Venture named him one of the province's 50 most influential people in 2007.
Perry writes and speaks on economic diversification, emerging technology, and the social shifts reshaping how people live and work. Expect a direct take and a healthy dose of humor along the way.
The Last Commons (Chapter Five): The Institutional Antibody (Issue #261)
What if the systems we rely on for stability are the very systems preventing us from adapting? We tend to interpret continuity as evidence of strength. Institutions that endure are assumed to be effec
The Lost Commons Episode Four: The Missing Medium
This audio episode looks at what's disappeared from the space between individuals and institutions, and why that gap matters more than people realize.(17min 02sec)
The Last Commons (Chapter Four): The Missing Medium (Issue #260)
What emerges instead is a more uncomfortable truth. Across decades of investment, the real gap was not financial, but relational. What was missing was the connective tissue—the human capacity to align
The Lost Commons Episode Three: The Illusion of Permanence
This audio episode challenges the assumption that today's institutions and roles are fixed, and asks what happens when the ground everyone built on turns out to be temporary.(19min 19sec)
The Last Commons (Chapter Three): The Illusion of Permanence (Issue #259)
Institutions, policies, and expectations quietly assume that tomorrow will resemble yesterday. This week's KEI Network newsletter continues our serialization of The Last Commons: Reclaiming Personal S
The Lost Commons Episode Two: A Globe Under Siege
This episode zooms out to the global picture, tracing how pressures on sovereignty, economics, and technology are converging faster than most institutions can respond to. (17min 59sec)
The Last Commons ( Chapter Two): A Globe Under Siege (Issue #258)
Yet today those foundations are being tested by accelerating technological change, economic uncertainty, and shifting social expectations. In this issue, we continue our exploration of The Last Common
The Lost Commons Episode One: The Infrastructure We Can No Longer See
Perry Kinkaide reads from The Lost Commons: Human Relevance Under Siege, his new book on what happens to human relevance as automation and AI reshape work, community, and daily life. (14min 48sec)
Th Last Commons: (Chapter One): The Infrastructure We Can No Longer See (Issue #257)
Our capacity to think independently, to reflect critically, and to act with intention is increasingly shaped—if not quietly captured—by systems designed to attract, measure, and monetize our attention
The Last Commons: A Final Reflection Before the Journey Begins (Issue #256)
The public is no longer merely informed; it is harvested. And the sovereign self is increasingly reduced to a metric. We ask what remains when identity is mediated, quantified, and publicly validated.