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. …

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 …

A paradigm shift occurs when scientists stick to their model of reality (theory), while evidence begins to pile up that doesn 't fit in there. Often a group of relative outsiders is needed, for example a younger generation of scientists or scientists from a different discipline, who are first seen as …

Rich versus poor, rural versus urbanites, workers versus managers, the autistic versus the “normal”. Despite systems to “enlighten” truth (such as the rational enlightenment that heralded the scientific revolution), we will always have to feel and believe. Our knowing will always remain temporary, until …

We investigated online intead of onsite working and found that adult workers generally see the benefits of screen meetings much more than students. Students seem to miss social contacts enormously. Adult employees now have the chance to integrate work and private life. A culture of working from home …

Now that higher education is closed in Corona lock-down, schools are only going to continue very partially (“pretend” they 're still open), we run the risk of pricing ourselves out of the market. Because if it really is only about knowledge transfer, there are of course so many more interesting documentaries …