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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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 …

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 all sectors of the economy, whether in the governmental or private sector, one of the most crucial factors for success is the ability to maintain one’s assets most efficiently and effectively. Finding the best approach for the maintenance of an asset means that it will create the best value possible, …

Technology has always been a very distinctive feature of human existence. Technology is to humans what nature is to other organisms: our host. Man is nature, but through technology – humans came to stand against nature and its biodiversity; technology is now a global enterprise, advancing on a scale …