Tomorrow is Good: how hype delays innovation
We all try our hand at predicting things. But how good are those predictions? The Danish Nobel Prize winner for Physics in 1922, Niels Bohr, spoke these wise words: making predictions is very...
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Superfast floating metro to replace European flights
In ten years’ time, a European network of superfast floating metros is to be constructed which will travel through magnetic fields in a vacuum tube system. This will replace flights within...
Tomorrow is Good: Leadership is not a one-man-show
Recently I watched the fascinating Netflix documentary Wild Wild Country about the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, who had a huge group of followers in the 1980s. Often it was because of a...
Going underground with the WARR Hyperloop
It’s the holiday season and especially at this time a year, there is probaby hardly any driver who does not dream of a way to get faster to where he wants to get, while he is sweating in long...
From rLoop to rBridge: The idea that could change innovation
In June 2015, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk launched his global competition to find designs for a functioning hyperloop pod prototype. Answering the call were over a thousand teams from universities and...
VDL will present its Electric Truck early next year
Elon Musk made the headlines again recently, this time by the announcement of an electric truck with a range of up to 800 kilometers and an equally spectacular charging time of only half an hour....
Daan Kersten: Re-use of Knowledge
In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer, Daan Kersten and Tessie Hartjes, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All five contributors are all working on technologies that can provide solutions to the...
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[TOMORROW IS GOOD] Daan Kersten: Elon Musk’s Plan B
Tomorrow is good. In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer and Daan Kersten, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All four...
Invitation for Elon Musk to visit #EHV Summit
Startup event EHV Summit is only 50 days away so the schedule for preparations is getting more and more tight. Team captain Victoria Martinez has her team (which is in fact growing every day) in...
Podcast: TU Eindhoven researchers discuss how to overcome the trials and tribulations of working from home.