Where in the 90s everyone had a hi-fi stereo sound system to play their favourite records or CDs, now we hardly have any favourite music, let alone a decent installation to play it on. Although we can hear everything ever made through Spotify or iTunes, we usually listen through a speaker on the smartphone …

Online working adds a new dimension to our jobs. When I see myself working and interacting, I’m involved very differently than when I only act from my own perspective. From my first-person and newly acquired second-person perspective, I have slowly but surely come to form an opinion about this. From …

The "conscience" that humanity has had from the beginning can be seen as Mother Nature 's response to evolved and evolving technologies, in that conscience serves as an emergency valve. Technology and conscience are to some extent two sides of the same coin. This article eloborates on how.

Goede ventilatie in gebouwen bevordert de gezondheid. In de huidige coronatijd is goed ventilerennog belangrijker geworden. Het reduceert virusconcentraties in de lucht en daarmee de kansop virusoverdracht. Het advies in deze tijd luidt: ventileren en nog eens ventileren met versebuitenlucht. Benut pauzes …

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Naar een cyberweerbaar Amersfoort. Aanzetten voor gerichte risicocommunicatie ter bevordering van de cyberweerbaarheid op basis van een onderzoek onder het Amersfoortse Burgerpanel. Lectoraat Maatschappelijke Veiligheid, Hogeschool Saxion.

A rational choice of partner would end in abandonment as soon as even a slightly 'better ' partner appears. As a result, nothing could be built together, while collaboration is exactly what people are good at, for better or for worse. Virtues such as love and loyalty and feelings such as passion and …

Computers are so incredibly easy to deal with, for example compared to a sewing machine, that you really don 't have to be a techie. Preferably not; the government states that insufficient digital skills mainly concern employees in the lowest technical (and care) professions. Working on a computer requires …

Although Corona is a very nasty virus, we can learn from the global imbalance it causes. The "official" opinions are raised above any reasonable and unreasonable doubt, which is dangerous, because unexpected events, such as the new Coronavirus, always lack knowledge at first. By accepting assumptions …

Due to the increase in scale due to (digital) technology, we are increasingly losing sight of our "common grounds". Our behaviour becomes bizarre, almost psychotic, but decimated by social media. In these Big Tech 'village squares ', we are both consumers and producers, like the sheep of yesteryear, …