Rewind to the first weekend in June. I was called down to review the Shaw Festival’s production of Sweet Charity. We bicycled through the various vineyards of the Niagara region, spent time with both sides of his family and topped it off with the season’s front-running show. It was an amazing weekend. As a Torontonian, […]
Tag Archives: Technology
We are Legion: A Defense of Physical Books
EDible News: Brooke Solnik, Contributor Boxes in 2-D Phones, computers, and TV screens They increase, multiply, take over The new way replaces the old But is it really “new and improved”? Leaves on trees crumple with the change of seasons Just as the pages of a book grow faded with age Only the screen is […]
The Degradation of Literacy
EDible News: Nadine Wyczolkowski, Staff Writer Our ability to read and write seems to be declining. There is a plethora of reasons why this may be so, yet one seems prominent in my mind: technology. Over time, our attention span shrinks to accept only what can be encapsulated in a mirage of a high sensory experiences […]
Twitterlitterate: The Evolution of Language in the Online Era
EDible News: Mike Gyssels, Staff Writer Hidden within the riddling lines of James Joyce’s 1939 masterpiece, Finnegans Wake, (that idiosyncratic spelling is a small joke, for those (un)familiar with the text) is an urgent call to preserve the literacy of our little ones in the face of the festering mass of perpetual, torrential information that is […]
