Wayne MacPhail
Director, Emerging-Media
Wayne MacPhail has been a print and online journalist for 25 years. He was the managing editor of Hamilton Magazine and was a reporter and editor at The Hamilton Spectator until he founded Southam InfoLab, a national future information products facility for Southam Inc. in 1991. He went on to develop online content for most major players in Canada including Sympatico-Lycos, where he was the director of content. He is also a book author (Spin Doctors) and is a published and performed playwright (Abandon Hope Mabel Dorothy). He has taught online writing at several Ontario colleges and universities and is the co-owner of w8nc inc, a marketing and communications firm aimed at non- profit and educational organizations.

Why is Google backing a messaging service without adequate privacy protections?
Home digital assistants are ready to serve
Measuring the pace of progress with technologies of the past
Disruptive innovation could set hearing aid industry on its ear
We can't imagine what real artificial intelligence will be like, and it doesn't care
Augmented reality is building a world of digital exclusion
Darkness comes to San Jose
CIA spying and the Theatre of Privacy
Facebook's track record makes its starry-eyed manifesto hard to swallow
