Virtual worlds – the social implications

The City of Glass. Tokyo, is a compelling Japanese film screened during the 38th Montreal World Film Festival, 2014. It has all the ingredients that attract an audience interested in the seamier side of life: sex, suicide, murder, necrophilia and […]

Printed with Permission of the UN. ++++++++++++++ Your Excellency Mr. Ban, I am writing to you as a Palestinian Canadian mother, Associate Professor in Philosophy of Education, and peace activist. What is happening in Gaza against the Palestinian people is […]

Sometime in the third week of February this year, a physicist friend and teacher from Brooklyn, pondered the probability/possibility/paradox of locating an event (perhaps even as an alternate reality) at a distance using mathematical relationships between space, time (and […]

Why does Keanu Reeves act like a robot? The “singularity” (in its non-mathematical sense at least) is the purported point in time when machines take over the world – Matrix style. Ok, maybe that is a crude description of the […]

I — Mimesis Beyond all the special effects in the world of 2014, behind the digitalized technologies, the espionage, the surveillance, the intrusive computer viruses, the attempts to create self-conscious machines and even to cook up new universes – […]

On researching about Gregory Corso, the poet, I found this in a compilation Blog on some of the greatest poets of our time. In the introduction, it says the following: “ Gregory Nunzio Corso was an American poet, youngest […]

This British/American/Chinese techno-thriller depicts a scenario in which a technical singularity reaches a point of no return and the events following this crucial moment. The technical singularity in this case is that of a quasi-sentient computer uploaded with the intelligence […]

**  In memory of Alain Resnais recently deceased ** Should the art of cinema be used for propaganda purposes or is it in the nature of any kind of art to remain separated from socio-political issues? We could defend […]

http://youtu.be/YiRUlYlsPVw Written and directed by Oleg Dergachov Producer Zheng Liguo © Studio DO 2011 Posted with permission of the author www.dostudio.ca

Everything I know I learn from Google My spellchecker, my thesaurus, my encyclopedia my music player, my video player, my search for prayer, for meaning, for understanding my need for titillation, entertainment, delight all pass by the […]

“ROBOT & Frank”, as the title implies, is a film about human-robotic interactions. Frank is an elderly retired  cat burglar who is losing it. His children consider institutionalizing him but before doing so, they get him a robot to help […]

A recent FM channel survey caused me some intrigue, since the topic of discussion was the novel one of “Problems caused by Facebook.” Callers were invited to narrate their own experiences on how Facebook had adversely affected them at […]

CHEF, 2014. Featuring Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Bobby Cannavale, Emjay Anthony, Scarlett Johansson, Dustin Hoffman, Sofia Vergara, Oliver Platt, Amy Sedaris, Robert Downey Jr. and Russell Peters. Chef is a feel-good movie about food, father-son relationships, creativity vs control, […]