On Wednesday, Oct. 22, Drex and I spent most of our tech-talk-time meandering on about streaming video.

A new player enters the Canadian market in a few days with the launch of Shomi, a joint project of Rogers and Shaw. The service is taking on Netflix.

For his part, Drex is looking forward to any opportunity to laze around binge-watching old episodes of ’80s-era sitcoms.

We also talked about the optimistic outlooks both Richard Florida and Ray Kurzweil have about the future of humanity. Drex may be worried about Skynet, but Kurzweil isn’t.