Denmark is known for having a strong democracy. We have high election turnouts, political transparency, widespread and profound trust in the public system, and a lively political debate facilitated by strong and nuanced medias.
However, we argue that there is a growing breeding ground for Trumpism in Denmark and would like to point out two reasons why.
Research and politics
The first is a weak relation between research and politics.
Teknologi fylder stadig mere i den offentlige og politiske debat: Sirikommission, Disruptionråd og en generel opmærksomhed over for f.eks. digitalisering, robotter og kunstig intelligens. Det er både godt og nødvendigt - og vi vil gerne være med. Vores første input er 7 små sandheder om teknologi skrevet ud fra vores humanistiske og informationsvidenskabelige faglighed.
...'XO' is simply the name we give large heterogeneous ensembles (Sugar+Quanta+AMD+Plastic+Scratch+Akila+Teacher+Papert+Batteries....) in which the specific components differ from deployment to deployment [...] A good question to the community, besides from general comments, is, then, what do you think we do and what, really, are we bringing?