Hans Timmerman

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…

The oldest responsibility of government has never changed. Since the earliest civilizations, governments have existed to record the events upon which societies build their rights,…

Government no longer consistently knows what it already knows. The first symptoms of institutional memory loss have begun to emerge. We forget what we once knew. We lose track of…

Swarms will not simply make militaries more powerful and better protect their personnel—they will fundamentally change the nature of warfare itself. In the end, victory will…

Twenty years from now, we may no longer talk about the AI race but about the energy race that made it possible. Just as no one can truly understand the Industrial Revolution…

Security is fundamentally an organizational issue. It is not primarily about systems, but about leadership, accountability, discipline, transparency, and continuous improvement.…

As Elon Musk once aptly observed, the most important product is not the product itself, but the machine that builds the product. The factory is the real machine—the machine that…

The question is therefore not whether AI is the next industrial revolution. The question is whether the institutions created during previous industrial revolutions are still…

The European Union seems to believe that you can win a match by being only the referee. But in the end, it is the players who determine how the game develops. The real challenge…