Augmenting the human brain

Over the past years, I’ve worked on and written about a lot of things that can be put under the umbrella of digitalization, ie applying digital technologies (computers and software) to create new opportunities in different areas. These areas can be process improvements, analysis possibilities or even completely new functionalities (business opportunities if you like). According to some, this is putting our jobs and even lives in danger. I don’t believe that’s true.

Part of my work is bringing digital technologies to places where they haven’t been used so much, or sometimes not even at all, and showing what they have to offer. Often, the discussion starts with data because, for some reason, that’s the first thing a lot of people think about when we talk about digitalization. That doesn’t come as a surprise as I myself keep telling people that data is important, data is everywhere and when we can convert data into information, it may help us do better things and get better ourselves.