We have allowed ourselves to become slaves to computers, and thereby to numbers and precision. In most contexts, precise numbers are spurious or misleading. Our obsession with them often leads to blinkered thought processes. Over the last decade, Big Data has become big business. A vast amount of time and energy is channeled into a…

I hope that in 2022 we can become more attuned to the natural world. The omens are not good. A major problem is our obsession with computer screens and the world of AI. Instead of treating them as a tool – a very useful tool, especially for crunching numbers, but still a tool – we…