2004?  Well, I was kinda preoccupied that year.

That’s when our daughter @chaos-and-cake was born!

But I do remember one event pretty clearly:

SpaceShipOne took the X-Prize!

At the end of February Elon Musk’s SpaceX announced that it hoped to send two paying tourists on a flight around the moon in 2018. If successful, they will be the first people in forty-five years to leave the earth’s orbit. How did this happen?

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Humanity did not inch its way into the skies but leapt. It took just sixteen years from the Wright brothers’ first flight, to British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown flying directly from Newfoundland to Ireland in 1919. In 1927, eight years later, Charles Lindbergh famously flew solo from New York to to Paris. Within twenty years Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier. Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space in 1961. And in 1969, just sixty years after humanity’s first flight, Neil Armstrong stepped foot on the moon. The pace of advancement, of development, of discovery, seemed only to be accelerating.

But then we stopped.

No need for doctors in the future?

The following article is inspired by recent events, when I was approached to moderate a controversial discussion with an expert panel at an international health innovation event in Europe.  The topic featured:  “Disruptive Innovation in Medicine:  Will physicians soon be obsolete?”

Science Fiction – for real?

50 years ago the original TV series “Star Trek” introduced a most fascinating and…

Belgian “X-Prize” for SME Business Valuation

De warme zomer is nu voor iedereen voelbaar, maar hoe bereiden wij ons voor op de komende winter, GREXIT, het mogelijk wegvallen van de EURO, de opkomst van de BRICS landen en meer?

Hiervoor kijk ik naar Peter H. Diamandis, zie ook mijn eerdere blogpost.

Peter is één van mijn “disruptive mentors”. Zijn motto “The best way to predict the future is to create it yourself“.

In de geest van de X-Prize…

"Peter Diamandis is a 'space entrepreneur'. I hope he has a side business because space isn't paying off for a long time".