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A silicon mind and human heart
Generative AI is a collaborative tool that is depended on human input, but that will also raise the human level of creativity
18 Apr 2024
- by Wouter Boon
Aligning an orchestra
Why professor Frido Smulders advocates an ‘entrepreneurial dialogue’ within large organisations
22 Jun 2021
- by Wouter Boon
The creative benefits of the coronacrisis
How Covid-19 stimulates innovation and a guaranteed income turns hobbies into jobs
28 Apr 2020
- by Wouter Boon
Thinking like a startup
To become the first climate-neutral continent in the world, the EU should break out of its political and economic straightjacket
28 Jan 2020
- by Wouter Boon
The creative work environment
A model explaining the relationship between an employee’s creativity and the organization’s ability to innovate
22 Aug 2018
- by Wouter Boon
You can only imagine what you know
How an insatiable hunger for knowledge forms an essential foundation for world famous inventions
07 Feb 2018
- by Wouter Boon
Art with an extended arm
Why primates can’t use creativity to make art and why artificial intelligence can – in a few decades.
03 Oct 2017
- by Wouter Boon
The Architecture of Creativity
How Apple’s state of the art new HQ is designed to optimally facilitate the creative output of its employees
09 Aug 2017
- by Wouter Boon
Creative Destruction
The meaning of creativity from both a Western and Eastern point of view
14 Feb 2017
- by Wouter Boon
Making the EU Great Again
Why not show European citizens the creative potential of the EU and improve its image along the way.
22 Nov 2016
- by Wouter Boon
A good plan violently executed
While young Boyan Slat is determined to rid the oceans of plastic, the experts keep telling him it’s not a good idea
25 Aug 2016
- by Wouter Boon
Shell’s looming Kodak moment
How the trend towards renewable energy disrupts Shell’s core business and why the company should quickly reinvent itself
23 May 2016
- by Wouter Boon
Standing out from the crowd
How Dutch artist and inventor Daan Roosegaarde is reduced to a showman and a fraud in Dutch TV program College Tour - and why it left me puzzled
25 Feb 2016
- by Wouter Boon
Why robots will work for us
The robot revolution will easily generate new, specialized human jobs, rather than just take them away
14 Jan 2016
- by Wouter Boon
It takes three to tango
Walter Isaacson's book 'The Innovators' describes how successful inventions are built on vision, engineering skills and entrepreneurship
22 Oct 2015
- by Wouter Boon
Creative by influence
Researchers at Rutgers University create an algorithm that assesses a painting's originality by its influence on others
21 Jul 2015
- by Wouter Boon
The road to singularity
A model predicting terrorist behaviour reveals the first step towards creative artificial intelligence
18 Dec 2014
- by Wouter Boon
Brainstorming on your own
By connecting 'remote associations' Seenapse is the first step towards the digital brainstorm
27 May 2014
- by Wouter Boon
3D printed human beings
Though we don’t know exactly where 3D printing will take us, it will most definitely physically change us
04 Apr 2014
- by Wouter Boon