After several requests to follow up on last year’s predictions and now, as is tradition, it is time for some predictions for 2023. Before that, I would like to share some thoughts and observations about 2022. I personally think my hit rate was pretty solid with a few misses but…

Do we really need Web3, Crypto and Blockchain? — Recently a group of important voices have come out against Web3. These aren’t the usual technology adverse critics but rather voices that are in general pro technological innovation; People like Jack Dorsey and Tim O’Reilly: but also others like Levi from Box.com and large parts of the entire…

By now most people know that one of the most powerful things about NFT’s is that they are digital items that behave like they are physical. — What less people realize is the other side of that equation: Physical items that behave as if they are digital. Let me explain… Turing Completenes NFT’s are universally programable via smart contracts. Whatever functionality you can program into a normal app, NFT’s can do in principle.

We often hear the claim that humans are destroying the planet through consumption, capitalism, energy usage, and impact on nature. I believe that’s false and here’s why. — Most recently, the documentary Seaspiracy has gotten people enraged because they see it as yet another proof that man is in the process of destroying the planet we live on and that we are depleting the planet for its resources.

The words metaphor and intuitive are often used in UX. They are the metrics we use to judge the quality of a solution. But is this quality really as universal as we might like to believe? Some years ago I needed a file from my parents’ computer sent to me. I called my mom (my dad who normally fiddles with computers wasn’t home) and asked her to send the file. As my mom isn’t the most avid user, I knew I would have to guide her…

Let me ask you a question: If you had an idea for a new hammer and you wanted to test it, which of the following ways do you think would yield you the most valuable feedback? I am guessing most of you would choose #4. After all, getting a feel…

“No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and he is not the same man.” — Heraclitus An exploration of a simple idea with a potential big technological impact on society. Written in 2010 but resurrected because of some of the potential of the block-chain. It takes seven years for almost each and every atom in your body to be replaced by another. Not overnight, of course; it’s not some…

Let’s start with what most people probably can agree. Information is accumulating online. The amount of available information is increasing at an exponential rate, some say it doubles every second year. This mean that any illusion of being able to stay up to date with everything that is going on is utopian and the reason why is very important to understand. — Most people know this, yet that is exactly exactly what we all seem to be trying to do. …

Out of 108 startups with a valuation of more than one billion dollars, 78 are from the US and only nine are from Europe. Why? Before you read on: This is a complex issue and I don’t claim to have the answers. In fact it’s going to ask more questions than it answers and I wasn’t even sure I wanted to publish it. It’s not even obvious why chasing unicorns is such a good idea…