Global economic growth and its associated challenges, particularly those related to environmental impact, vulnerabilities in various global regions, inclusivity, and sustainability, prompt serious reflections on the types of economic and business models capable of achieving such growth, while addressing …

Book Review of S. Vallor (2024). The AI Mirror. How to Reclaim Our Humanity in an Age of Machine Thinking. Oxford University Press, New York, 263 p.

Er zijn opvallende overeenkomsten in mensgerichte domeinen zoals zorg en onderwijs als we kijken naar de manier waarop over ICT wordt gesproken. ICT wordt in deze domeinen vaak als beperkend of niet toereikend ervaren om de beoogde doelstellingen te bereiken, laat staan dat de betrokken informatiesystemen …

In this short article the author reflects on AI’s role in education by posing three questions about its application: choosing a partner, grading assignments, and replacing teachers. These questions prompt discussions on AI’s objectivity versus human emotional depth and creativity. The author argues that …

''New technologies are advancing at an unprecedentedly accelerating pace over the years. The distance humanity has covered in 2200 years, from the Antikythera mechanism of ancient Greek world, the oldest known analogue computer, to the 4-bit first microprocessor in 1971, is not even comparable to the …

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In this post-pandemic era, humanity is at a crossroads between restoration and change. Life-Changing Design is the theme of the tenth IASDR congress, geared towards exploring the role of design in these transformation processes; and how it’s renewing and transforming itself.

It seems easier to talk about the end of humanity than about giving up the internet or giving up driving. It is argued that in our developed "first" world, we now need development aid ourselves. We are “blind” at the mercy of technological “progress”, which we continue to see against our better judgement, …

Green energy is just one of the two types of energy humanity needs, the energy for our man-made world, including cities, road networks, industries and technological systems (energy for the systems that drive out the ecology). However, a second type of energy is needed to meet our biological needs, energy …

This text explores the role of education during of a time of transition from the Holocene, a stable epoch benevolent to humanity’s development, to the Anthropocene, an epoch that is unpredictable and very possibly hostile. The aim of this text is to explore the literature on the potential of ‘embodied …