Jens Martin Skibsted

Looking at the numbers, the transatlantic slave trade matches the Holocaust in horror - maybe even without counting subsidiary effects like internal…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I do think we need to at least register artificial intelligence units to be able to monitor and control them. Because we…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Bundling finance, energy solutions, water solutions, traffic infrastructure, and all general urban infrastructures is too much of an ask for most developing…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Consumers do not want a perceived cheap car; they want a car to flaunt. A car is as much about status and…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Neoliberalism became the leading economic ideology in the U.S. and in the U.K. during Ronald Reagan's and Margaret Thatcher's mandates. In this…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Urban mobility is a massive global challenge. The world needs people to use multiple forms of transport - a mix of biking,…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Citizens have long been easily influenced by the opinions of others and sought social proof, but social media have amplified the phenomena…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Design negotiates between technology, policy, systems, and users.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Curbing pollution and global warming takes a global cooperative mindset. Development aid needs to be rethought in this context.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Being design-led means designers take ideas from the abstract to the concrete, from potential to real value.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Our houses, shops, and factories waste gigantic amounts of energy, often in the form of excess heat. How do we slash this…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Regardless of our political stance, we cannot afford to perpetuate the Western car-centric model.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Airships could be part of the answer to Africa's infrastructure woes - if the financial challenges are overcome.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Anyone can dream up great ideas, but an idea is nothing until it's realized, be it as a website, a physical product,…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Humankind has mainly evolved in Africa, and we only left Africa very, very late in our evolutionary path. This means that there…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Time hygiene is about finding more time for ourselves: to think, to do what we like.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Immigrants are not the main threat to the industrialized world's workforce: robots are - or, rather, artificially intelligent robots are.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Cities are important because that's where the majority of the world's population lives and an even bigger share of the global economy…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

If intelligent robots are our competitors and, to some extent, cerebrally alike - enough for us to discuss their ethical standing -…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

From NASA putting a man on the moon to DARPA developing what later became the Internet, the U.S. government, through a host…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

It is widely accepted and understood that consumer decisions are as much influenced by emotional attachments to a product or service as…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I believe that to further strategic growth and development via design, we need to have a set of public design policies.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

I believe we need to lay race theories to rest: Democracy - and identity - is difficult enough without 'scientific' obfuscation.

— Jens Martin Skibsted