The Digital World is a novel landscape evolving in new and unexpected ways. Witness the effect on modern day language with the inclusion of the concepts and reality of avatars and memes, new verbs like frag and dogfood, and other digital notions influencing whole new forms of entertainment, research, therapy, and crime. Vigorous discourse and varied points of view comprise a vital and healthy society. The Sumnergroup Ideas pages are a forum for the exploration of widely varied concepts from a spectrum of writers and thinkers we are connected to.

THE WAY WE LIVE NOW: The Year of Living Dangerously By Michael Ignatieff, public intellectual and former professor at Harvard.

Amos Key: on Language and Culture Interviewer Elma Miller explores a range of issues on the topic of language and culture with noted Six Nations scholar and linguist Amos Key.

What kind of Canada do we want in the 21st century? By Mary Moylum, former Canadian immigration judge; currently Director of Legal & Client Services.

A Clash of Cultures: How to Reconcile Aboriginality with the Straight Line By Frank Krzyzewski, Technology Manager.

Rethinking Web Design Assumptions in the Age of Widescreen Display Technology By Frank Krzyzewski, Technology Manager.