A Boolean function can only have either of two values (on, or off, 1, or 0). However, most things that are of value to us humans cannot be captured in the Boolean functions. With a simplification of our complex reality to True and False, we will inevitably destroy our understanding of the world in the …

Some sectors emphasize their tradition, such as beer, whiskey and wine, and other sectors pride themselves on continuous innovation in order to achieve ever better quality, such as detergent producers and (high) tech. Needless to say, both sides of the marketing strategy spectrum - tradition or continuous …

It is clear that the increase in scale that communication technology (colonization) has realized has reduced the number of co-existing realities. Still, the process of increasingly global unification and the subordination and absorption of local diversity is far from easy to understand. The paper focusses …

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 …

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 …

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. …

Uit de aanbeveling van het onderzoek door Francken (2019), naar de relatie tussen stress en prestatiedruk onder tweedejaars voltijd Toegepaste Psychologie studenten van hogeschool Saxion te Deventer, kwam naar voren dat het bespreekbaar maken van deze problematiek een grote schakel kan zijn in de vermindering …

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 …