Macleans.ca » Rethink http://www2.macleans.ca Canada's only national weekly current affairs magazine. Thu, 23 May 2013 15:17:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Feschuk’s dispatch from a world of angry Sea Monkeys http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/18/dispatch-from-a-world-of-angry-sea-monkeys/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/18/dispatch-from-a-world-of-angry-sea-monkeys/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:30:01 +0000 Scott Feschuk http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=302222 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/18/dispatch-from-a-world-of-angry-sea-monkeys/feed/ 0 You people of 2012 are far too serious. Stop worrying and love the robot revolution. The farm on top of the city http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/18/the-farm-on-top-of-the-city/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/18/the-farm-on-top-of-the-city/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:20:01 +0000 macleans.ca http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=302220 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/18/the-farm-on-top-of-the-city/feed/ 0 A new crop of urban farming businesses aims to feed locavores, save the planet—and turn a decent profit Tomorrow’s people and the body of the future http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/18/tomorrows-people/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/18/tomorrows-people/#comments Thu, 18 Oct 2012 10:20:01 +0000 Anne Kingston http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=302248 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/18/tomorrows-people/feed/ 0 Brain caps that let us speak via our thoughts, cochlear implants that bestow super hearing. And it’s not far away. The robot working-class invasion http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/17/the-robot-invasion/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/17/the-robot-invasion/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 15:50:01 +0000 Charlie Gillis http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=302250 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/17/the-robot-invasion/feed/ 0 A new breed of small but complex ‘learning’ robots are set to revolutionize manufacturing and labour Futurist Brian David Johnson on microchips and why there is nothing to fear from robots http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/17/on-microchips-how-choice-always-wins-and-why-there-is-nothing-to-fear-from-robots/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/17/on-microchips-how-choice-always-wins-and-why-there-is-nothing-to-fear-from-robots/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 14:00:01 +0000 Brian Bethune http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=302228 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/17/on-microchips-how-choice-always-wins-and-why-there-is-nothing-to-fear-from-robots/feed/ 0 In conversation with Brian Bethune Flying cars go back to the future http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/17/back-to-the-future/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/17/back-to-the-future/#comments Wed, 17 Oct 2012 10:00:01 +0000 Nicholas Köhler http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=302224 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/17/back-to-the-future/feed/ 0 Once dismissed as a flight of fancy, the flying car is preparing for takeoff again Ketchup technology to the very last drop http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/13/ketchup-catch-up/ http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/13/ketchup-catch-up/#comments Sat, 13 Oct 2012 17:20:01 +0000 Chris Sorensen http://www2.macleans.ca/?p=302232 http://www2.macleans.ca/2012/10/13/ketchup-catch-up/feed/ 0 A solution to one of modern life’s most vexing problems: getting the last bit of ketchup out of the bottle