We will remain hackable unless we create an equal knowledge-based society.

Knowledge is supposed to be the great equaliser, yet access to knowledge is not equal. When we combat things like climate change, hate speech or when we are fighting for equal rights. We are immediately met with opposition, the oldies, the skinheads, the conservatives, and the religious extremists. And turns out these people are doing a better job at uniting than we are.

What are they uniting over?

An unlimited source of new information. New lies are more wonderous and come in multitudes than the other kind(truth).

These days false news has more strength than any truth because, first of all, we are so bad at telling truths and because we are not investing enough in uncovering new things in this world. The great years of enlightenment followed a scientific movement. What a world it must have been, waking up to find new secrets of the universe.

But now we are just too lazy, science has lost its legitimacy, and no new Newton will come to this earth anymore because, unlike Newton, we have made science completely inaccessible.

There is a great need to make science accessible on all levels. We must now more than ever show the power of truth and let it shine and have its spotlight in all its multitudes. Or else the darkness…