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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
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
Separating fame from paint
Why celebrity artists reap greater rewards than creative ones – not just at Christie’s
23 Apr 2019
- 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
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
Sustainable innovation
Since not every CEO is as visionary as Tesla's Elon Musk, patent laws should be 'softened' and thus reformed in favour of a sustainable world.
07 Jul 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
Tech nerds wear t-shirts
Why the world of digital start-ups cares less about looks and lifestyle
25 Feb 2014
- by Wouter Boon