Logging: To Be or Not To Be

In a legally intensified digital reality, logging is no longer a supporting IT function. It is a board-level line of defence. Those who lose their logging lose not only insight…


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WEF Davos 2026 – Het einde van de Malthusiaanse periode

WEF Davos 2026 therefore marks more than a moment of rupture; it marks the end of a conceptual framework that has dominated Western thinking since 1971 — and, in reality, since…


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Menselijke versus kunstmatige intelligentie

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…


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Complex versus Ingewikkeld

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…


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Onze energierekening is een belastingaanslag geworden

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…


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2026 – De terugkeer naar ‘Realpolitik’

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


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Een kerst-essay: groeten uit 2035

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…


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De cryptocrash als koopkrachtcorrectie

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…


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Datacenters zijn energiecentrales voor informatie

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…


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Waarom AI geen oordeel kan vormen

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…


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