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Technology should work for us, not rule us
Higher employment rates, less government spendings, lower taxes. A larger, stronger economy and a more comfortable life for everyone. More safety. All of these things are possible when technology takes up its proper place in society, and if the government enables that. Serving society, with goals set in advance and with clear expectations — not…
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Danny Mekić’s week: entrepreneur, teacher, lecturer and technology expert (interview ‘Backstage’)
It’s not a matter of if but of when education will be digitalised. Young, successful entrepreneur and teacher Danny Mekić (26) warns us for the ‘Google school’. “It’ll be much more fun than regular school, but it’ll be sponsored by commercial companies. But the expertise is in the schools.” Monday Technology and the internet –…
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Certainty
A society on the move, both localising and globalising, where companies are looking for new economic models and where individuals aren’t sure whether what they learned in 2012 is still true in 2013. Politics coerced by the illusions of the day into serving the illusions of the day, media joining in happily. It all makes…
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ICT: From simplification to complication
For a long time, ICT seemed to be the solution to the increasing complexity of the world, to the increasing complexity of the questions and that of the answers, the yearly increase by 100% of information on the internet, the total information overload; ring binders and address books were replaced by digital systems, and without…
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Column: From Enlightment to Aggravation
There are more of us here now than ever before. We are tearing down national borders and language barriers; information, knowledge and ideas are now stored forever. We live to be older, maybe even wiser, and thanks to social media, we can be part of it from a very young age on: nobody needs to…
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‘Facebook puts our brain time on display’
‘We had internet fairly early on in our family. As a little boy, I was instantly fascinated by that medium. Most of all, I dreamed about the possibilities. What if in the future, you could even see people? And talk to them, live? That used to be as far as the daydreaming went. Look at…