Dr. John Hollins, past Chair CACOR reviews the book: What is government good at? A Canadian Answer [1] by Donald Savoie [2] Donald Savoie argues that politicians and the top layer of public servants are good at: o managing an organisation dominated by the prime minister of the day: responding to demands from the prime […]
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
Robert Hoffman, CACOR member, book review. Pearl, Judea and Mackenzie, Dana. (2018). The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. New York: Basic Books. (kindle edition) The Book of Why, written by UCLA professor of computer science Judea Pearl and science writer Dana Mackenzie, describe in non-mathematical language the intellectual content of […]
Has the Horse Bolted with the Internet of All Things?
By Lalith Gunaratne, CACOR member. I am disappointed and dismayed of our modern world after reading two interesting and scary books back to back – Yuval Noah Hariri’s Homo Deus and Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction. Is this where we have come to after all these years of scientific and technological development?. Greed and expedience seems to thrive […]
Reinventing Prosperity by Graeme Maxton
John Hollins, Chair CACOR Board of Directors Book Review. Reinventing Prosperity by Graeme Maxton and Jurgen Randers Greystone / David Suzuki Foundation, 2016 A review “For most of the last thirty years, unemployment has been rising in the rich world, while the gap between rich and poor has been widening. This is not what conventional […]
Our final century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century
BOOK REVIEW by Steven B. Kurtz, CACOR member. Martin Rees _Our Final Century_ (2003) This is as macro as it gets, folks. Multiverses, big bangs, solar systems, and yes, our planet are systemically linked and existentially evaluated by Sir Martin Rees in this superb work. The universal and the particular, objective and subjective, probable and unknowable, […]