Booki The Human Network Explosion In the past 2 centuries, urbanisation, distance communication (telegram, calling, television, internet, flat communication) and accessible commuting speed has caused our networks to expand. As a result, we are digesting many more connections
Science Fiction Deep Dream Devs I find myself dreaming that I'm programming My brain is training and improving its neural network I think predictive programming CNN (PPCNN) could be the future of programming. PPCDN could map a textual
Science Fiction Are VR Autonomous Segways the future, or was it just a dream? Tonight I had a dream that I was woken up abruptly from so I was able to remember it in clear detail. This dream was so revealing of how traffic could be. I
Science Fiction The new hackers will impersonate the ones you love Hacking is getting easier. Developments in AI provided tools for face and voice replication like never before. Many tools we use nowadays don't have a strong verification to certify it's really you that's
Science Fiction The AI Boom is Near... Soon the AI Boom will change things in a drastic way. Google, Facebook, Apple, WhatsApp.... are all... listening. reading. maybe even watching... everything you do. every step you take. Every result you get.
Science Fiction The dark side of globalization Decentralized internet (different content in different countries) is good. We are doing a global experiment on ourselves and don’t know the long term effects. E.g.: allow porn? Allow games? User retention?
Science Fiction How to create a sustainable world? The earth has existed for a couple billion years. That’s a couple thousand million years. That’s about 2.250.000 times longer than the 2018 years we’ve counted until now.
Science Fiction The importance of rooms lies in hyperpolar immersion In a house, there are different rooms: living room, bedroom, kitchen, study room, etc. This makes sure you are able to change your environment based on what you want to do. The environment
Science Fiction Why I went to Bali and why I don’t know where I’m going next I just arrived in Bali and I already got this question at least 5 times: How long are you staying here? Where are you going next? My answer is I don’t know.
Science Fiction Is Skynet already there? My prediction of the collapse of internet as we know it I am going to predict something that has been predicted before by a science-fiction movie in the 80s: It's called Skynet and the idea became popular by the movie Terminator in 1984. This
Science Fiction The Multiple Personality Coder I have to confess. In the past 7 years, in my insomnia and obsession with coding, I have developed MPD. These are some of my personalities, and this is how I use them
Science Fiction Capitalism drives cyborgs to the top, if we like it or not We become more and more dependent on machines. You could say that current technology is already an extension of ourselves as we are using it in everyday life. In a few decades, if
Science Fiction Google makes us creative, but also more self-determined Today I was listening to Drum & Bass when I thought: 'What if this would be classical? That would be epic!' So I searched for 'Drum & Bass classical', and voila! Somebody
Science Fiction Elephant-shit You might not have identified them yet, but it’s true: shit elephants are everywhere.You can find them on Facebook, on TV, and in the newspaper. In the Netherlands, we have a
