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“The ad blocker is a godsend”
“We’ve entered an age where more and more standard products are becoming obsolete. Marketeers need to ask themselves: is my product even relevant these days? This is their challenge: how can you still really surprise individual customers?” Being in touch with the customers “People have become so individualistic that it’s becoming less and less effective…
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Danny Mekić: ‘Teach children a love for learning’
“After our industrialisation and our globalisation, we’ve now ended up in a new kind of society, in which the new powers and the new economy mainly depend on new technology. Which, moreover, keeps changing constantly and rapidly.” “What this means for education remains to be seen. Any attempt to get on board with it is…
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Notes on the Dutch Public Transport Chipcard
ON THE DEVELOPMENT: “The Dutch OV-chipkaart (public transport chip card) was developed in a time when mobile phones couldn’t do much yet. It was something new back then, having a separate information carrier (the card itself) and application (the payment system). But nowadays, touching a card to a card reader isn’t necessary any more, now…
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The Netherlands to leave Britain and the US far behind as digital surveillance state
Constitutions were initially instated to keep the State at an appropriate distance. To never give the government more power or limit citizens’ fundamental rights more than strictly necessary, and only when it’s effective. Today, in the shadow of worldwide dangers and fears, the constitution of more and more western countries has degenerated into a soothing…
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Technology is racing forward
Orchid growing with Google Glass and a robot that folds your laundry Last October, Rabobank Gouwestreek organised an event entitled ‘New technologies: Google Glass’. Guest speakers Danny Mekić and Mike van Rijswijk told us all about the technological developments going on at the moment, and demonstrated Google’s flagship invention: Google Glass. “We live in interesting…
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Governments: No more external consultants for IT
IT and the government: MPs playing Mark Zuckerberg is not such a good idea “I had to google what IT means, exactly,” chairperson of the House of Representatives Anouchka van Miltenburg candidly blurted out last Wednesday, upon receiving the inquiry report into governmental IT disasters presented to her by commission president Ton Elias. It wasn’t…