Samenvatting

I love technology. We live technology; technology is as ubiquitous as nature used to be. It has reduced biodiversity and cultural diversity, creating a dangerous global uniformity with pollution, deforestation, climate problems and boredom and loneliness, also on a global scale. A lot of technology has been developed in the "war industry", and it can be used just as easily for, as against, humanity. One may argue that it is not the technology that is the problem, but the use of it. But no individual, body or government is in control, technology development has a life of its own in the laboratories of knowledge institutions and science, and especially in the hands of thousands of innovators and companies, who earn their living with it. Technology and humanity, two dangerous loves of mine!