On a brisk December evening in Antwerp, the city was cloaked in a typical winter chill, the kind that makes you question why you ever leave your house. It was the kind of night that beckoned for the comfortable seats of a warm cinema. The streets shimmered with rain, the air thick with the scent …
Jaarlijkse archieven: 2023
Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, by Paul Hawken
Let’s face it: reading about climate change usually feels like being trapped in a monologue delivered by a doomsday prophet. Fire, floods, famine… fun times ahead! But what if, instead of grim inevitability, we were handed an actual plan? Enter Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming. The book that doesn’t …
State Surveillance Capitalism, with Chinese Characteristics
Welcome to the brave new world of state surveillance capitalism, where your data isn’t just being harvested for ad revenue — it’s also being catalogued for national security, social order, and probably a bit of light amusement by an omnipresent algorithm somewhere. In most places, this is a job best left to Silicon Valley. But …
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50 Things that Made the Modern Economy, by Tim Harford
Have you ever stared at a barcode and thought, “Wow, this little strip of black and white lines is basically the linchpin of global capitalism”? No? Well, Tim Harford has. In Fifty Things that Made the Modern Economy, he takes the seemingly mundane detritus of human progress: things like barcodes, shipping containers, and artificial light. …
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Over de particratie in België
Volgens Walter Zinzen, de voormalige journalist bij de openbare omroep VRT, is de particratie in België inmiddels zo doorgeschoten dat het stilaan een olympische discipline had kunnen zijn. En niet eens een sympathieke discipline zoals curling, maar eerder zoiets als speerwerpen in een overvolle stadswijk. Ik kan niet anders dan het met hem eens zijn. Terwijl …