Somewhere in quiet, unassuming Leuven; my favourite bar in all the world.
Amstelveen
Having cookies and apple juice at a motorway services station in beautiful Amstelveen. A lovely moment in a lovely day.
On taking pictures
A wonderful Spring day greeted us this morning. All the more remarkable as we are still in February. No pictures, though. Somehow it didn’t occur to me to capture the views*. Thinking about it, sometimes cameras do get in the way. There is much to be said for staying in the moment and for absorbing all that there is in that moment, without feeling the need to take a picture.
Driverless cars – within the next five years?
A follow-up to my post yesterday about driverless cars.
Today at the Consumer Electronics Show 2016 (popularly known as CES 2016), the CEO of Ford stated that driverless cars will probably be in public use within the next five years. Wonder which manufacturer will be first to the market.
Driverless cars – closer than you think
I am reading ‘The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies’. Written by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McPhee, it is an eye-opening study of the way our lives have changed as a result of technological advancement.