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 …

De recente kritiek op de Triodos Bank is onterecht. Bij duurzaam bankieren hoort een andere houding dan die van consument, vindt Frank Jan de Graaf, lector corporate governance & leadership op de Hogeschool van Amsterdam. Het conflict tussen de Triodos Bank en een groep van haar certificaathouders is …

Velen in de milieubeweging zetten hun kaarten op regelgeving. De schaduwkanten van deze benadering blijken bij Triodos Bank, een duurzame onderneming met een maatschappelijke doelstelling. Voor écht duurzame ontwikkeling is een goede verbinding nodig tussen geld en duurzame doelen. Daarin heeft regelgeving …

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, …

In order to be able to do paid work, it is a condition that people also do reproductive work. Raising children, taking care of the house, running errands, taking care of the community (family, neighbours), etc. all this is also necessary work. No paid work without this so-called reproductive work. There …

Gepubliceerd peer reviewed artikel behorend bij het congres INTED

It is argued that both continuous improvement and growth in one direction, are (sometimes partly) based on the illusion of control. It is precisely through our actions, by exerting as much control as possible over both natural and artificial processes, that we make things worse, often despite our good …