Bram Vermeer

Bij diagnose is het oordeel van kunstmatige intelligentie nu al beter dan dat van artsen. De groei van medische gegevens en uitbreiding van bevolkingsonderzoeken maken de computer onmisbaar.

Wetenschappers dromen al meer dan een eeuw van een elektriciteitskabel die onderweg geen stroom verliest. Ik schreef dit weekend voor het Financieel Dagblad hoe supergeleiding nu doorbreekt: het bespaart energie en maakt windturbines en elektrische vliegtuigen lichter, en dus efficiënter.

Dit jaar is er voor het eerst sinds een kwart eeuw weer kernfusie op aarde. Bij de Joint European Torus (JET) in het Britse Culham, bij Oxford, is nu alles klaar om de energiebron van de zon na te bootsen. Het zal nog minstens vijftien jaar duren voordat ITER in Frankrijk het volgende fusierecord vestigt. Ondertussen boeken kleinere bedrijven ook goede vooruitgang bij kernfusie. Ik schreef er dit verhaal over in Het Financieele Dagblad.

Met de beeldend kunstenaar en techniekdocent Gerald Maurice beschrijf ik het verhaal achter alledaagse verschijnselen. Een mooi boek voor alles wat je onderweg tegenkomt en niet helemaal begrijpt.

Interactive e-book in Dutch and English (bilingual). How do robots change society and how can we prepare for it? With interviews, background stories, podcast debates and videos that together provide a nuanced picture of the promises and consequences of robot technology. I was project manager and co-author.

Contains 36 thought-provoking essays by leading experts on the future of energy in society.
I wrote an overarching essay. The other essays are edited, introduced and sometimes
ghostwritten by me and my co-editor Gert Jan Kramer. With contributions by i.a. Jorgen
Randers (Club of Rome), Amory Lovins (Rocky Mountain Institute), James Lovelock (‘Gaia
hypothesis’) and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Club of Rome). The first copy was presented
to His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the… Show more

Contains 36 thought-provoking essays by leading experts on the future of energy in society.
I wrote an overarching essay. The other essays are edited, introduced and sometimes
ghostwritten by me and my co-editor Gert Jan Kramer. With contributions by i.a. Jorgen
Randers (Club of Rome), Amory Lovins (Rocky Mountain Institute), James Lovelock (‘Gaia
hypothesis’) and Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker (Club of Rome). The first copy was presented
to His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands. Show less

Forthcoming, autumn 2025. In this book I describe the world as an increasingly complex system with ever-increasing
interdependence. I thereby show how we have shaped our world - from the emergence of
the first life on earth to the rise of populism. The book highlights recent research from so-
called ‘complex systems science’. This gives a deeper understanding of for example
economic bubbles, the spread of epidemics and increasingly fragile ecosystems. And it
shows how we can… Show more

Forthcoming, autumn 2025. In this book I describe the world as an increasingly complex system with ever-increasing
interdependence. I thereby show how we have shaped our world - from the emergence of
the first life on earth to the rise of populism. The book highlights recent research from so-
called ‘complex systems science’. This gives a deeper understanding of for example
economic bubbles, the spread of epidemics and increasingly fragile ecosystems. And it
shows how we can achieve stability and durability in these issues. Co-authored with Rutger
van Santen, until recently academy professor at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Sciences (KNAW) and former rector magnificus of Eindhoven University of Technology. He is
co-founder of a research center for complex systems. Show less

To be published in 2024. This book describes and explains the role of energy in society. The way humanity harvested and used energy has shaped societies. Conversely, societal progress along with changing environmental factors have transformed and continue to transform the world’s energy
system. Co-authored with Gert Jan Kramer, professor at Utrecht University.