Meer welvaart zorgt voor een duurzamere wereld, schreef Ralf Bodelier maandag in deze krant. Dat neigt naar desinformatie en zet de wereld op zijn kop.

Mensen met een beperking zullen na de coronatijd vaak moeilijk hun plek op de arbeidsmarkt weer kunnen vinden. ‘Sociale ontwikkelbedrijven’ kunnen daarbij helpen.

Sometimes religion and science are mentioned in one breath; both provide an explanatory framework for phenomena like uncertainty, chance or fate. In the meantime, science, or rather technology, has become a world religion. It’s a world religion, because technology connects: religion comes from the Latin …

The Corona crisis has shown that we can change quickly. The fact that politicians and the media lack momentum does not mean that we as human beings cannot or should not take our own responsibility towards a simpler life, with less technology, and belief in science and with much more belief in each other …

Such a crazy world! Disclaimers on cigarette packs, on medicines, on banking services and products, but not on the State Lottery, while crowds of lowincome people gamble, resulting in even less spending space. Mandatory unsolicited advice literally spoils communication between employees and clients. …

Pleidooi voor cultuurbeleid met als uitgangsunt culturele democratie in paats van democratisering van cultuur.

Brain & Technology is about the relationship between mind and technology, so about brain and lifelong learning, and therefore about the extended mind. More generally, humanity uses technology to outsource brain processes (mind) to smart devices, just as we partially outsource our digestion to cooking …

It is time for science and politics to take real responsibility for the "iatrogenesis" (pathogenic effect) of technology, instead of blindly investing in new disruptive technology. Even though the close link between technology and the economy seems to "force" it. Monocultures are both not natural, and …

If a pianist receives a completely different organized keyboard, (s)he would have to learn to play again. In digital technology this happens continuously. However, software companies show little or no awareness of this inadvertently “tweaking” users, and this is because we do not understand enough that …