VeloCity is a startup program with the University of Waterloo, and has announced 30 new startups this fall of 2013. The program fosters entrepreneurship by providing University of Waterloo students with opportunities for startup funding, free workspace, workshops, networking opportunities and access to mentors. The Waterloo-Wellington Region, which has traditionally been an area where Mennonites, maple syrup and farming, along with an undercurrent of holistic healing and organic lifestyles, is now home to businesses to the world famous Blackberry, along with Google and other such global tech firms. We are indeed headed into interesting times. In a land that was founded by German and Anglo-Scot Christian farming communities, the question is, will these groups equally contribute to the growing movement of technology singularity, or will they diverge into their respective extremist camps, spoiling the 'processed-icing-layer- on-organic-cake' of traditional and high-tech societies? Will the wisdom of traditional folk systems be paved over by faceless technology corporations whose employees (and perhaps employers too) forgot to eat fibre based on food, choosing nano-fibre instead, or will some of us become modern-Mennonite Cyborg farmers of the future, getting help from Android farmhands who 'themselves' left with the preacher's daughter? We are headed into interesting times indeed.
http://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/velocity-introduces-30-startups-fall-2013
http://uwaterloo.ca/news/news/velocity-introduces-30-startups-fall-2013
