The neurodiversity movement advocates seeing autism as a variation on cognitive information processing rather than a disorder. Healing practices related to homosexuality and other forms of sexual identity (trans, bi, etc.) will become punishable. Will trying to cure a neurodiverse person from autism …

In 2050 moet de Nederlandse economie volledig circulair zijn: alles wat we willen maken, behalve voedsel, wordt dan vervaardigd van bestaande grondstoffen of onderdelen en hergebruikte materialen. In 2030 moeten we halverwege zijn, maar ook dat gaat hoogstwaarschijnlijk niet lukken.

Emancipation of law, violence and information dehumanizes us and therefore makes us a little more dangerous. The more "technical" the communication is, the lower the threshold for colliding with each other. Technology (or methodology) makes it possible to sharpen the contours of the conflict and thus …

Mass production and, more recently, communication technology, have led to both scaling up and an exact copy-paste reality. This has led to an increase in total material wealth, but unfortunately on credit.

As a consequence of the increasing global scale, we often think people should not reinvent the wheel over and over. However, inventing "wheels" is impotant to gain a sense of meaning in life, and it is argued that it both isn 't fair to prevent people from reinventing wheels and it is in the long run …

Where in the 90s everyone had a hi-fi stereo sound system to play their favourite records or CDs, now we hardly have any favourite music, let alone a decent installation to play it on. Although we can hear everything ever made through Spotify or iTunes, we usually listen through a speaker on the smartphone …

Online working adds a new dimension to our jobs. When I see myself working and interacting, I’m involved very differently than when I only act from my own perspective. From my first-person and newly acquired second-person perspective, I have slowly but surely come to form an opinion about this. From …

The "conscience" that humanity has had from the beginning can be seen as Mother Nature 's response to evolved and evolving technologies, in that conscience serves as an emergency valve. Technology and conscience are to some extent two sides of the same coin. This article eloborates on how.

A rational choice of partner would end in abandonment as soon as even a slightly 'better ' partner appears. As a result, nothing could be built together, while collaboration is exactly what people are good at, for better or for worse. Virtues such as love and loyalty and feelings such as passion and …