AI & quantum computers News about bigtech advancements reaches us daily. Is it all true and possible? Always do your research, especially if it sounds disruptive. Be skeptic and check the sources. AI achievements that attract strong media coverage have to be taken with a grain of salt. This happens because the mass media is…

The Bias of Artificial Intelligence When it comes to artificial intelligence (AI), most people think of the supremacy of robots, humanised machines or computer chips that want to harm us. In reality, AI is already integrated into various systems in the appearance of an algorithm. Whether it is word recognition in writing, speech recognition or…

Buckle up, cuz we are going sky-high! Technology is impacting more and more areas of our lives. Moreover, we experience these changes to occur at a rapidly increasing speed, meaning the number of innovative concepts is growing exponentially.  Our basic need for food is a classic examples of how novel trends of an entire industry…

Is artificial intelligence (un)biased?  Whether artificial intelligence (AI) is biased or not is mostly determined by its underlying ethics. By definition, ethics is the philosophical reflection of justifiable moral validity claims. This means that there are a few crucial questions that are examined, such as: How should we live? Which purposes and values guide our…

Where will we buy our grocery in the future?  Yes, I know Corona sucks and you don’t want to hear about it anymore. But it is interesting how Corona effected our shopping behaviour and how it will look like in the future. As a food technologist I am especially eager to find out more about…

On the Architectonics of Food We live in a world of plenty: natural riches and cultural artefacts, human intellect and powerful We live in a world of plenty: natural riches and cultural artefacts, human intellect and powerful technologies. We revel in an abundance of energy and information. Everything is available to us. However, the contemporary…

E-commerce – the land where milk and honey flows? In January 2020, no one would have imagined how this year would challenge us as globalized and interconnected world.  How different this year would be and how fast we as human beings would have to adapt to new situations. Curfews, social distancing, home office, empty shelves in…

Does the depiction of the carbon dioxide emission influence our consumer behaviour? Before we can ask ourselves the question if carbon dioxide (CO2) influences our consumer behaviour, we first have to dive deeper into the potential effect of CO2 to our planet. When talking about our planet, the climate change or sustainability CO2 emissions are discussed most….

Leveraging the potential of smart food safety Recent technological advances in Digitalization or the Internet of Things (IoT) are called to radically revolutionize the food industry. In this vein, there has been a growing interest in smart devices, digital twins, and artificial intelligence to be utilized in the automation process in food production.Up to this…

The (dis)informed society We are practically on the way from the age of information to the age of disinformation. The importance of experts is getting lost in view of the wide range of experiences available online. In 1966, Karl Steinbuch, a pioneer of digitization, drew a picture of society that will promote ubiquitous information and…