Technology

Technology has changed the restaurant and travel industries drastically from how they were 15 years ago.  Food critics who write for the local newspaper now have less sway over the success or failure of a new restaurant, and travel agents who service the offline travel crowd now have fewer clients.  The once-powerful place of critics and travel agents in society has been disrupted by handy online services such as TripAdvisor, Yelp and Priceline, new multi-billion-dollar companies that allow customers to search millions of listings and reviews in an instant.  The services also allow everyone to be a critic.

Vancouver is an important investment hub on the Pacific Rim. With a change in government for the province of British Columbia, how will the investment and business climate change – if at all?

In a historic turn of events, Google DeepMind’s artificial-intelligence program AlphaGo won four out of five matches against South Korean professional Go player Lee Sedol in March 2016. This is the first time a computer program defeated a human competitor in this strategic game of skill – a tremendous milestone in the development of artificial intelligence (AI) to date.