If you need a car, computer, new refrigerator, stove, new desk or couch, flat screen TV, or anything else high-tech or high-ticket, do your research this month but wait until mid-June to buy.

The rise of this Canadian tech giant has put this mid-sized south western Ontario city on the map in more ways than one, helping to solidify the community’s allegiance.

It also provides an understanding of how AI or machine learning, as the technology is often called, has the potential to remake the tech world in the same way the web did in the mid - '90s.