
Students brought pots and pans to the Nest. Canada’s AI ambitions need something harder to buy: a social licence, earned with the people expected to live with the rollout.

Students brought pots and pans to the Nest. Canada’s AI ambitions need something harder to buy: a social licence, earned with the people expected to live with the rollout.

Neil Postman did not predict AI. He left us something more useful: a discipline for refusing to treat any technology as the weather. Here is what technological resistance looks like in 2026.

I marched through Vancouver in a crowd chanting ‘Fuck AI.’ Then I went home and used AI to organize my notes. That contradiction is the work.

Business in Vancouver got the thesis right: AI lands inside every profession. Here is the connective infrastructure B.C. still has to build and what BC + AI is already doing.

The Vancouver AI community is a vibrant and growing ecosystem, with a strong focus on open-minded progress. The regular meetups are a great opportunity for people from different backgrounds and disciplines to come together and share…
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