Hans Timmerman

Practical craftsmanship in trades and factories has largely disappeared through mechanisation, industrialisation and automation. And now AI agents and AI bots are doing the same…

Perhaps, then, we should take the term data-driven working a little less literally. Data should not drive us. Our goals should drive us. The outcomes we want to achieve. The…

It is no longer simply: “Is our IT secure?” The real question is: “Can we, as a board, demonstrate that we understand our digital risks, manage them, monitor them, and act…

Europe is growing older. That is a fact we cannot escape. But aging does not automatically mean economic decline. Higher productivity makes every worker more economically valuable…

The real innovation is therefore not replacing the employee with a machine. It is giving the employee a machine that enables them to accomplish five times as much. Not more people…

We see the paradox: cheap labour makes labour inexpensive and can therefore delay innovation. Scarce labour makes innovation necessary, but only if we also keep the technology,…

Not everything needs to be preserved, and not everything can simply be thrown away. But everything that still exists deserves a conscious decision at some point. That is why we…

Security by obscurity is dead. AI has simply pulled the plug. What remains is the question of how we build digital systems in which not secrecy, but evidence, forms the foundation…

The Earth will probably survive us. The question is whether we will survive ourselves. And perhaps the answer lies less in our political debates than in our chemical laboratories.

Without a trustworthy institutional memory, there can be no trustworthy government. Perhaps that is the most remarkable lesson of all. Sometimes a few fairy tales about an…