One of my obsessions is the continuous interaction between emerging technology and human behavior. Basically, how tech affects our lives and the other way around. Both directions exist, but the latter is the hardest to spot. Tech -> Behaviour: Some examples - Self-driving cars will free up hours of time for…

I’ve noticed a peculiar pattern when it comes to future predictions. We’ve all seen how people tend to predict doomsday scenarios when talking about new tech. “AI and automation will kick millions of people out of their jobs!” “Facial recognition will destroy privacy!” … However, when talking about upcoming new…

I often wonder why certain innovators don’t seem to realize they fell in love with the wrong technology. In certain domains, there is a high degree of certainty on what kind of future there will be. Take the technology of smart cameras and image recognition as an example: In the…

Too often futurists and dreamers overestimate the rate of change. As a result, vague concepts designed in corporate brainstorm tend to leak out into the wild. Press & tech blogs, hungry for clickbait, are eager to announce the next big thing. “Flying cars!!!” “Nanobots will cure cancer!!” …

☞ Follow & join the discussion on Linkedin Job titles are hard. Does this sketch make sense to you? This is not an exact overview, more a conceptual approach to show how I use the different roles. In our own team of innovation consultants, I assume that most people are…

When we run an intrapreneurship program in a large corporate, we aim to push participants out their comfort zone. During several exercises intrapreneurs have to brainstorm on what the future could bring to their organisation. Spotting emerging trends & technology is never easy. …

I’m working on a new service to rethink online banking. Before explaining my experiment, I would like to ask 1 simple question: For me, checking payments and doing bills is just one of the many chores that I need to do. There is absolutely no sense of pleasure in doing…

Concept Art for The Last of Us by John Sweeney (http://conceptartworld.com/?p=24769) The most engaging movie I experienced recently was actually a game. It took 14 years since the noir story of Max Payne 1 & 2 to discover another game that managed to pull me in completely. The growing father-daughter…

How Facebook analyses your photos to position ads in your newsfeed. — tl;dr: Facebook understands what’s on your photos. It uses this data to cluster similar posts together on your newsfeed. (but not always successful) Let me start by the following overview. Everytime you load your newsfeed, Facebook needs to decide which status updates to show you. It also needs to decide…