Over the past few years one of the questions popping up regularly in conversations with clients and prospects at banks and processors all over Europe was: “is there a real [...]
„Is our political system capable of managing rapid technological change?” When pressed I would be tempted to answer the question with a resounding YES! for I see abundant evidence around me we have done so very successfully. Actually it is one of the core abilities we humans have to adapt to changing conditions.
If the demo of pCell is anything to go by this is pretty disruptive technology for mobile cellular networks. Via Daring Fireball: Update 25 March 2014: via ReadWrite.com: "5 Things [...]
Question of the day (III) Let’s be honest; if a long time senior payments professional asks the title question after you have spend an hour explaining the significance of the [...]
"Light at the end of the tunnel, but what lays around the corner?" iPhone 5s (3 min. read) As many people I frequently visit a fair amount of [...]
One of the things that has always intrigued me immensely is how companies can operate while not a single person in that particular company has a full apprehension of what [...]
The starting point of my inquiry into collaborability is mega trends are influencing the way we collaborate big time. It will also influence the way our economy is structured; hence [...]
Publishing from LR to Dropbox I happen to be a happy amateur photographer since my schooldays. A separate blog could be filled easily on this topic alone by me. I [...]
Many Red Planet Dust posts contain links to - in my view - very interesting articles and video's from all over the web. Most of the times I only link [...]
In a side line of this Mondays post on the way governments will enforce their interest - while hopefully representing us citizens for the better - in this interconneceted epoque: [...]
In my regular daily newspaper NRC Handelsblad an article was published Monday last by Karen van der Wiel, Bas ter Weel and Casper van Ewijk called [translation RPD] "Exactly, science [...]
While thinking over collaborability I am confronted with the subject of “human nature and human abilities” again and again. I do not try to steer away from it - not [...]
Some of today's technological and economical trends culminate in the battle between Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Samsung and some of the other well known tech giants. I have been following [...]
Our society, as the collection of humans on this planet, has grown to a degree of complexity - and size - that, if you just take a moment to reflect [...]
While aware of bitcoin for some time being professionally involved in payments, my interest in bitcoin was triggered when I had the opportunity to discuss bitcoin backgrounds and developments with [...]
Just browsing the December 2012 issue of the Scientific American last night my eyes where caught by the very first lines of text as by-line to the cover on the [...]
In a matter of 2 minutes I was presented two seemingly unrelated articles on Flipboard Technology section yesterday. Rather small news items as we have seen them before, so nothing [...]
