Roel Smelt
Exploring what technology does to us — and then trying it out.

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06
Jul
The Sovereign Human After Scarcity

The Sovereign Human After Scarcity

Abundance does not automatically create sovereignty. It removes excuses and asks whether we can become present, loving, and worthy of freedom.
7 min read
04
Jul
The Abundance Stack

The Abundance Stack

Energy, food, transport, labor, and health are not separate trends. Together they expose the real scarcity: presence, love, trust, and spiritual maturity.
8 min read
02
Jul
Health Is Becoming Infrastructure

Health Is Becoming Infrastructure

Health Optimizer Therapies may shift medicine from damage control to vitality. But even perfect health does not give us love, meaning, or presence.
7 min read
30
Jun
This Time, We Are the Horses

This Time, We Are the Horses

Humanoid robotics is not just automation. It is the emergence of a new labor engine — and a spiritual test of what humans do with time.
8 min read
29
Jun
Volkswagen's Sovereignty Trap

Volkswagen's Sovereignty Trap

Volkswagen's autonomy dilemma is not really about software suppliers. It is about who owns the fleet learning loop behind unsupervised self-driving.
6 min read
28
Jun
Tony Seba Was Right

Tony Seba Was Right

RethinkX was not lucky. Seba and his team looked at cost curves, convergence, and system dynamics while incumbents looked at current market share.
7 min read
26
Jun
It Has Already Happened

It Has Already Happened

On Hannah Arendt, Tesla, AI, and Europe’s habit of waking up after the future has already left.
6 min read
26
Jun
The Netherlands Is Better Than It Feels

The Netherlands Is Better Than It Feels

The facts are not subtle: the Netherlands is safer, richer, healthier, better educated and more abundant than in 1990. The problem is that fear has better distribution than progress.
7 min read
24
Jun
The Outside Is the Illusion

The Outside Is the Illusion

Quantum physics does not prove Vedanta. The deeper wound is the fantasy that truth can be understood from outside reality.
7 min read
19
Jun
Europe Is Not Sovereign. It Is Comfortable.

Europe Is Not Sovereign. It Is Comfortable.

Europe mistakes comfort for power. Rutte’s defense warning is not an exception; it is the pattern across AI, compute, cloud, batteries, capital, platforms and industrial scale.
8 min read