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Long-form essays and interviews on AI, leadership, economic resilience, and the forces reshaping Canada, from Perry Kinkaide and the KEI Network community.
Fact or Fiction: Silicon Will Outsmart Carbon
Fact or Fiction: Silicon Will Outsmart Carbon The rise of artificial intelligence has sparked a question that keeps ethicists, scientists, and everyday people awake at night: Is the future silicon, no
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)
Fact or Fiction: Start-ups Fail Because They Lack Financing
Fact or Fiction #260 Start-ups Fail Because They Lack Financing In this issue of the KEI Network, Chapter Four of The Last Commons challenges a deeply embedded belief: that innovation rises or falls o
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)
Fact or Fiction: Will AI Restore a Shared Reality—or Replace It?
Fact or Fiction: Will AI Restore a Shared Reality—or Replace It? In a time marked by fragmentation, polarization, and algorithmic amplification, a new proposition is gaining traction: that artificial
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)
Fact or Fiction: Consumerism Is Coming to An End
Consumerism Is Coming to An End Canadian pollster David Coletto recently posed a provocative question: Is consumerism beginning to stall? On the surface, the economy appears stable. Employment remains
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)