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The Year Ahead: Our Guide To 2024
Our annual look at what’s coming your way this year
This realtor created a Tinder for property co-ownership
“You shouldn’t meet someone online once and jump into a purchase, any more than you would go on one Tinder date and agree to get married”
My students are using ChatGPT to write papers and exams—and I support it
“It made no sense to ban ChatGPT within the university. It was already being used by 100 million people.”
The Year Ahead: Our Guide To 2023
The people, places, events and ideas that will define the year ahead
Technology blurs the line between white- and blue-collar work
IN A MODERN AUTO PLANT, robots are everywhere. People? Not as much. Even if thousands are employed there, they may be hard to spot on the assembly line. “You walk through and you say, ‘Where are they? They’re not putting the cars together. They must be somewhere else,’ ” says David Santi, dean of the Marshall School of Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship at Ontario’s Mohawk College.
When will the NFT bubble burst?
NFTs are great for artists, but is blockchain really the future of art?
The makers of the metaverse want you to give up on reality
Silicon Valley is promising a digital world within our world. But logging in to the metaverse won’t solve our issues.
As photo booths disappear, the pictures they gave us are ever more precious
Photo booths had a unique ability to capture some of our silliest and most intimate moments, leaving us with a precious record of time
Trying to lie to your insurance company? Your car will betray you.
Car tech is exposing the nose-stretchers told by drivers trying to scam their insurers
Formula E—the all-electric circuit race—is back and quiet as ever
The first Vancouver E-Prix will take place in False Creek over Canada Day weekend 2022
With ‘aerohaptics,’ holograms can feel real to the touch
The 3D images are a popular Victorian mirror trick, but researchers at the University of Glasgow are elevating the technology that brought Tupac Shakur to life onstage in 2012
Space exploration is about more than launching billionaires into orbit
The eye-rolling at the obvious PR stunt of sending William Shatner to space hides a growing antipathy towards space exploration—but we’ve forgotten how much humanity benefitted from it