Jesse Eppink
Aerospace Engineering student at Delft University of Technology.
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Utopia revised
When values will be taken more into account during the design of a neighborhood, then safety, sustainability and human well-being can go… -
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The price of cost-efficient killing
How drone-warfare forms a huge risk to the safety of innocent people, including ourselves.Every technological implementation comes with its own set of values and risks. 1 Risk can consist of financial consequences, but safety may also be at stake. Safety engineering is one of the pillars and key values of Responsible Innovation. 2 Today I will discuss a very controversial technological innovation. An innovation which is developed in the United States and already used by the U.S. Air… -
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About sports cars & climate change
Today I have done some Technology Assessment myself on Tesla Motors, providing me further insights into the origin and future goals of the… -
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From ‘Jugaad’ to Frugal Innovation
Jugaad is a Hindi word that means an improvised fix, a clever solution born in adversity. Why does humanity need these forms of innovation -
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Innovating to innovate
After a meeting with Alex Lokhorst from the TU Delft Science Center, I asked myself the following question: Is innovation in itself a… -
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The pretended obstacle called moral overload
What we can learn from the stem cell debate regarding clashes of ethics and technology.Ethics and technological research and development do not always go hand in hand. In ethics, technology is often only mentioned as the source of our problems, and not as a potential solution to our moral dilemmas. On the other hand, from a technology perspective, ethics is often only mentioned as a constraint on developments, where it could be seen as a source of innovation. 1 Situations in which… -
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TTIP: take responsibility
About us getting disadvantaged by our own government and the EU, which should be there to stand up and take responsibility for our safety…