In the United States, a number of IT billionaires are set to join Trump’s administration. Besides Elon Musk, Peter Thiel (PayPal, Facebook) and Ramaswamy (IT billionaire) will also be stepping in. Their role is intriguing: they are being given a free hand with the mission of making the government more efficient. This illustrates that Big… Continue reading Big Tech to govern
No one can do without digital tools anymore. Life in today’s society has become impossible without them. Whether you use your smartphone to send a message, gather information, take a photo, or join a meeting: of the more than eight billion people on earth, two-thirds owned a smartphone in 2023, which is used daily, often… Continue reading Who controls the world with AI?
This article is an update of the article with the same title from 21 October 2019. Introduction. The world is rapidly digitalising, and as a result, it is increasingly being controlled—perhaps even dominated—by digital systems, backed by parties that develop, use, exploit, and manipulate these systems. While many of these parties are useful and legitimate,… Continue reading The Digital Black Hole
Image created using ChatGPT and DALL-E, AI technologies by OpenAI. Three Major Transformations The world is currently in the midst of a number of significant transformations. From Physical to Thinking Being. What’s happening? Humans have been evolving for decades, but now this process is accelerated by digital advancements, from a physical being supported by brains… Continue reading Is digitalization our salvation?
Democracies are failing. What should you do as citizen?
(the picture is generated with DALL-E 2023) Conflicts are on the rise. The world is descending into increasing chaos. It is becoming increasingly clear that humanity, with its current way of operating or governing, is not capable of living together in a balanced or sensible manner, neither with each other nor with the surrounding nature.… Continue reading New World Order: the Fluid Society
It is needless to say that developments in the world are increasingly determined by digital progress. This encompasses a wide range of different aspects, from rapid developments in digital services and products to the significant influence of social media on society, from large-scale transformations in almost every industry to spectacular developments such as bitcoins and… Continue reading Without Big Tech, Europe falls behind
With a group of four people: Joost van Iersel (former member of Dutch Parliament for the CDA; Senior Advisor at the European Policy Centre), Willem Korteweg (former CIO, former Director of the Leading Edge Forum), Paul Timmers (former Director at the European Commission; Research Associate at Oxford University, Adjunct Professor at the European University Cyprus)… Continue reading The digital- sovereign- Europe-theme group
At the moment there is quite some discussion about the pros and cons of AI: Artificial Intelligence. Recently, Microsoft bought ChatGPT an AI system that generates a detailed and reasoned answer based on questions, worded in such a way that it looks like an expert with a lot of knowledge has responded. Microsoft plans to… Continue reading AI in search engines: a threat or opportunity?
There is no denying that the world is currently facing a dramatic situation..We are living in a consumer society that has outgrown its capacity, As a result our natural environment is gradually collapsing.So much so that numerous scientists in the fields of climate, biodiversity, resources and biology, believe that in their areas, the points of… Continue reading Can humanity still save humanity?
