Witnessing Gen Z-style innovation at the Canadian Music Week 2018 Hackathon
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As someone who’s flirted with technology reporting for years, it was only a matter of time before I went from covering sterile ‘digital transformation!’ events hosted by middle-aged Corporation Men in grey suits to wacky ‘hackathons’ hosted by a man with a white afro wearing a Pac-Man suit.Yes, the world is changing. Fast. And I think, on the whole, I prefer this emerging one. The Generation Zers at the Canadian Music Week 2018 Hackathon were hungry — full of purpose and the energy that comes from knowing that geeks are now certifiably cool and that you and your technological black magic are destined to inherit the Earth.No whiff of the sinister intentions of the men in grey suits, just a collection of people resembling the cast of Watch Dogs 2 united in the belief that their coding can change (...)
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