2020 as a philosophical experiment: Why we keep running away from ourselves
Why does it take so much effort to stick to one of the most important corona measures: Stay at home. IO Columnist Katleen Gabriels views this with a philosophical eye.
Katleen Gabriels
Smart toilets or Big Brother is watching from the smallest room
Smart toilets may seem attractive to get quick diagnoses, but also raise questions about privacy. Columnist and moral philosopher Katleen Gabriels on World Toilet Day.
Moral advice straight from the computer: is it time for a virtual Socrates?
Our columnists are working on solutions to the problems of our time. In the section Tomorrow is Good, they write about their ideas and dreams for the future.
Facial recognition as the Manhattan Project of our time
Our columnists are working on solutions to today's problems. In the section Tomorrow is Good they write about their ideas and dreams for the future.
Tomorrow is good: Why we should keep the memory of Alan Turing alive
After three years of living and working in the Netherlands, I have often reflected on the differences between the Dutch and their southern neighbors. Student […]
Tomorrow is good: Digital vulnerability
By mid-March, teachers all over the world were faced with a tough challenge: a rapid transition to online education would have to be made. This […]
Tomorrow is good: Women in universities -we still have a way to go
Katherine Johnson died on the 24th of February at the age of almost 102. Johnson was a brilliant mathematician. Her work at NASA made an […]
Tomorrow is good: What about morality in machines?
What might machines capable of moral behaviour effectively mean in practice? The Swedish fiction series Real Humans presents an interesting spin on this question. ‘Hubots‘ […]
Tomorrow is good: An ode to futility
In the calm period after Christmas I wanted to quietly catch up on my backlog of unanswered emails that had accumulated during a busy first […]
Tomorrow is good: Human beings, machines with emotions?
Computers are good at abstract thinking; we are all too keen to delegate complex calculations to them in order to free ourselves from that chore. […]
Tomorrow is good: Beware of the visionary
Research on artificial intelligence (AI) started in the years after the Second World War. John McCarthy, an American mathematician at Dartmouth College, coined the term […]
Tomorrow is good: never say that ethics is just a trend
Tomorrow is good: never say that ethics is just a trend
Tomorrow is good: Made with morality
It was actually launched in the summer of 2016: the car for women. The SEAT Mii by Cosmopolitan was the result of a collaboration between […]
Tomorrow is good: Self-tracking for Stoics
At the end of the 19th century, weight scales in France were advertised with the message that those who weigh themselves, know themselves well; and […]
Tomorrow is Good: the importance of forgetting
“Hans has been keeping a diary for more than thirty years and finds comfort in it, and also takes pleasure in it. The other day […]
Tomorrow is Good: Tracking the Future
“We know where each student is anytime – which is virtually all the time – their mobile devices are connected to our WIFI network. When […]