A dot, an arrow or a droplet on a map on your phone: that is how we indicate our location today. But for those who grew up before the smartphone, the ANWB emergency roadside telephone was a reassuring presence along the motorway.
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For many people it is a milestone: the moment you can ride a bicycle without training wheels. Remarkably, in the Netherlands there are more bicycles than people.
Changes affecting the whole planet require a global vision of cooperation, justice and responsibility. Can humanity design such a world?
On a rapidly warming planet, the old dream of the ‘designer climate’ takes on new meaning. What if we could remove excess CO2 from the air? What if we could dim the sun's radiation?
The Second World War was followed by a period of tension between the two new superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. Weather and climate also became entangled in this ‘Cold War’. According to some researchers, human control over the atmosphere was within reach.
People and their environments have been influencing each other for thousands of years. To this day, specific designs and products are used to ‘tame’ nature and make it profitable.
The devices with which electronic music was initially created occupied entire rooms. Now software gradually displaced hardware until, eventually, one laptop could house all synthesizers and drum machines ever released.
Bee (Seungbee) Han developed the Bee Machine. A machine that judges potential friends on the possible success rate of the friendship.
Butterflies in your stomach, unable to eat a thing, constantly daydreaming and checking your phone every five minutes to see if you’ve received a new message: falling in love is magical.