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Perspectives
Long-form essays and interviews on AI, leadership, economic resilience, and the forces reshaping Canada, from Perry Kinkaide and the KEI Network community.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Paradoxes Prevail: Converging Crisis Pending? (Issue #282)
In recent issues, we have returned to the ancient counsel Know Thyself—the idea that understanding ourselves is essential to judgment, responsibility, and…
Fact or Fiction: Safety or Freedom? Are We Becoming Over-Protected?
For generations, progress has meant making life safer. We developed safer automobiles, safer workplaces, safer playgrounds, safer medicines, safer food,…
The Inner Commons: The Future of Mind (Issue #281)
Together, we have explored the emergence of mind, the architecture of attention, memory and perception, and the consciousness, emotions, relationships and creativity through which we become human.
Fact or Fiction: Canada Is Getting Fixed
For years, Canadians have heard variations of the same diagnosis: productivity is weak, investment is leaving, major projects take too…
The Inner Commons: Becoming Human (Issue #280)
Beginning with The Lost Commons: Human Relevance Under Siege and continuing now with The Inner Commons: Knowing One’s Self, we have been following a question that becomes more important as the forces
Fact or Fiction: Humanity Has Reached a Tipping Point
The language of “tipping points” has become commonplace. Climate scientists speak of ecological thresholds. Economists warn of debt ceilings and…