The quest for safety is about something bigger “Have a safe flight!” people will often say to me before I fly off. But safety on board a commercial flight is far from any concern of mine. As reported by the Dutch consultancy To70, the rate of fatalities...
The more things change… There’s a French expression that we have long borrowed in English: “The more things change, the more things stay the same.” In French, it’s usually “plus ça change, moins ça change.” (The original...
The power of psychedelics There is a lot of exciting news flowing from various prestigious universities and research centres (such as Imperial College, UCL and King’s College London in the UK, Harvard, Yale, UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins in the US), about how...
Watching time pass by? I don’t know about you, but I inevitably think of time passing when we chime in the New Year. That said, I’m definitely not one who musters up new year’s resolutions. But the changing a digit of the year, i.e. when I have to...
I am frequently invited to discuss and/or debate the potential to humanise artificial intelligence (AI). Will it be possible to imbue AI with human qualities, sufficient to dupe us or equal us? Worse yet, will it supersede us? And judging by the reactions in the...
To what extent do you believe you know yourself? How closely do you think your outward-facing image is aligned with who you are down deep inside? From my own observations (starting with myself), being fully aware of who we are is generally an elusive task. As author...
How to tag someone on LinkedIn if their name doesn’t come up?
