Harry Shannon
A couple of weeks ago the Toronto Star had a story on the big tech companies Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Google. The headline used an acronym to write: “Tech giants’ FAANGs sink teeth into our wallets.” (They also mentioned Microsoft, but I guess the acronym wouldn’t have worked.)
The story quoted a Univer…
Month: September 2019
Eton school, please stop what you’re doing.
Harry Shannon
I was born and raised in the UK, so I pay some attention to what's going on there.
A while ago I heard the headmaster of the British school Eton justifying its ultra-exclusivity and the fact that almost all its students are from very rich families. (Eton actually calls itself a ‘College’.) The headmaster claimed that ma…
Communing With the Dead – or the Living?
Harry Shannon
I had to renew my Ontario Driver’s Licence and my Health
Card. One of the forms sent to me was
for registering as an organ and tissue donor.
I was happy to fill it out, though I added a note that my
organs can’t be used to generate private profit.
But what caught my attention was the space to add my phone nu…