futurism

American fietsers like me are usually pointed toward Rotterdam, rather than a city like Utrecht or Amsterdam, for a very...

There’s a familiar metallic roar disturbing the peace of the Netherland’s bike paths. It’s the sound of gas-powered motorcycles. They’re...

Zoe Kooyman is now running the Free Software Foundation. People I know and trust say she’s a good choice. She had...

I rode a Swapfiets bike from Maarssen to a meeting in Amsterdam yesterday, as an experiment. The result was not...

I came to the Netherlands to gather material for a book on e-transport. The book is changing as I write...

In America you buy an e-bike. In the Netherlands it makes sense to rent. But these are different products. My...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtQwt7s7ZOA This is the question Ray Liotta asks Kevin Costner’s character in the movie Field of Dreams. Costner’s response, “No,...

Arguments about Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) have become almost religious in nature. They shouldn’t be. It’s not a question of...

This should be obvious to everyone. But for those car heads in the back, it needs to be said again...

Just one day in the Netherlands and I can already see I was right about some things. E-Transport isn’t coming....