Even journalists and academics sometimes employ dichotomies that fall short almost immediately. An example is the prophets and wizards dichotomy. Populism with a scientific twist, which apparently makes sense and appeals to our gut feeling. A golden formula, with an implicit logical appeal to dialectics, …

TheUniversity of Twente, SaxionUniversityofAppliedSciences, ROCofTwente(vocationaleducation), centre of expertise TechYourFuture and the H2Hub Twente, in which various regional hydrogen interested corporations are involved, work together to shape a learning community (LC) for the development of innovative …

De opkomst bij de gemeenteraadsverkiezingen van maart 2022 was ‘historisch’ laag, zo kopten verschillende kranten. Het landelijk gemiddelde lag op 51 procent, 5 procent lager dan in 2018. In sommige gemeenten lag de opkomst ruim onder het gemiddelde en was de daling nog groter. Rotterdam had met 38,9 …

Nederland is bekend als zuivelland en zuivel is een belangrijk onderdeel van het voedingspatroon van veel Nederlanders. De zuivelindustrie is een moderne, innovatieve en sterke economische sector. In de afgelopen jaren zijn het aantal melkveebedrijven in Nederland afgenomen, terwijl het aantal melkkoeien …

In this article it is argued that we will no longer be able to spare the elephant in the room, technology, which has gradually evolved into technocracy, governing our day-to-day behaviour without being consciously or politically chosen. We do this on a large scale and meanwhile worldwide. For example, …

Our planetary footprint has become so incredibly large, precisely because we have been doing less and less ourselves. Our entire culture revolves around outsourcing. First to slaves, then to wage slaves, machines and now also to AI. We let others produce (often industrially) all sorts of things, in clean-looking …

A tenet of behavioural change that almost every academic adheres to, is to do not name the bad behaviour but indicate how to perform the good behaviour. Three quartersto the left is one quarter to the right. However, being allowed to give instructions only in left (or, conversely, only in right) often …

It is argued that a world can exist in which man is not a plague, in which we do not take away all diversity with cheap copy-paste mass production to worship a system world that makes everything uniform everywhere and in which we wrongly believe that we are working to establish heaven on earth. Optimists …

Uitwerking van het smart industry ecosysteem voor onderwijs en arbeid. Hierin aandacht voor Smart Industry en Formeel leren, Leven Lang Leren, flexibilisering en Learning by doing.

Human beings are, above all, narrative creatures, extremely sensitive to good stories. The (implicit) stories of futurologists have their own characteristic structure, when they outline what our future full of technology will look like. One element of their narrative structure is often that the speaker, …