Hans Timmerman

The desire to mechanize thinking is ancient. Greek myths tell of Hephaestus’ golden automatons. The Jewish golem was animated through letters. In the Middle Ages, Ramon Llull…

The famous anecdote by Apple developer Bill Atkinson goes as follows: “Only when a change to the source code reduces the number of lines (‘negative code’) will the overall…

Energy has become an instrument of higher political objectives—objectives that were initially understandable, but are now clearly weakening society. While large parts of the world…

Een voormalig elektrotechnisch ingenieur pleit voor het herstellen van welvaart door middel van betaalbare energie, chemie en data – na jarenlange verwaarlozing.

In a single month, more changed than in years of stagnation. The EV market collapsed, subsidies vanished, the crypto market corrected years of fictitious wealth — false money…

Perhaps it is time to ask the question that is rarely asked in crypto debates: for whom was this value actually valuable? For early adopters and speculators, certainly. But for…

Information and energy are inseparable. Anyone serious about digitalization, AI, and “the cloud” must also be willing to talk about nuclear energy, grid capacity, and physical…

Steve Jobs’ metaphor still holds: the computer was the bicycle for the mind. AI is the car — perhaps even the airplane. It can take us farther than ever before, but only if we…

A future where data grows up Imagine a world where every datapoint is born as you and I: with parents, witnesses, and proof. A world where data can grow, reproduce through AI…

In the coming years, the Netherlands will decide whether it is a producer or a consumer of AI-driven science. Blind faith in European regulation with patchwork national…