The muse of inspiration is clandestine, vane and transient (maybe this is the reason why I haven’t written anything for so long), she comes, goes and returns depending on the swings of the universe. But… What inspires us? What pushes us to creativity? These are questions for the infinite, but even so we can be […]
May you live in interesting times – Chinese curse
May you live in interesting times – 愿你生活在有趣的时代, as the Chinese use it to curse others, because it is actually better to live in uninteresting times. Now… Are we living in interesting times? Where most see death and infection, yours truly here writing these lines sees only the poor getting poorer, a great shift of […]
Technological Diet and Addiction
Today we all live glued to our phones and technological devices, they have become so important to our existence that they have opened a whole new dimension to the human existence: 1) The corporeal dimension. 2) The documentary dimension. 3) The digital dimension, that was addressed in the article Technology puts us into everything (read […]
Tiktok is showing us American “Capitalism” true colors
During the last few weeks we have been witnessing an escalade in the Tech-Industry by the Trump Administration against the Chinese Tech-Giants Huawei, Bytedance (Tiktok) and Tencent (WeChat). Everything is being accomplished in the name of “National Security” without any legal grounds to support this within the constitution. Huawei wants to be forced out of […]
Latency and the 5G battle
The race for the 5G networks that we are witnessing between China and the USA is underlying a layer about Tech-Politics (defensive or offensive positions taken by countries driven by the technological decisions of other countries, read related article). This is a race for the control of the infrastructure, that down the road leads to […]
The thoughts of a hyper-connected confined individual
Should we live the rest of our lives with fear of leaving home, fearing the neighbor or the bystander? Is it worth it to keep living this way? Are the technological means the answer? These and other questions rise as we continue in this confinement that everyday becomes more unsustainable from the economic and the […]
From Religion to Facebook – The end of the Democratization of Wealth
During the last century we have witnessed a democratization of Power and Wealth; and nowadays with the empowering given by science people have turned more agnostic and religion has lost its place as the tool to control the masses. Throughout all history previous to the 20th century Power and Wealth was concentrated within a very […]
Economic Protectionism and Tech Companies after COVID-19
Once we are out of homes where we have been confined for some weeks now and on the other side of this COVID-19 pandemic we will be and live in a completely different world: a world with even greater inequalities, more controls, more data collection and more restrictions to our liberties; but also, there will […]
Manchester City’s penalty and the future of football as a business
Friday 14th of February the UEFA announced a penalty to Manchester City Football Club banning them from all European competitions for the following 2 seasons, plus 30 million Euros for breaking the Financial Fair Play Regulations. This opens the question whether football can be a business or part of a bigger business that has a […]
Facebook comes to challenge the traditional systems of control
In the light of economic theory, the factors of production are Land, Labor and Capital (the later one seen as supplies and machinery), and during the last decades there has been the need to add Technology to this list. Whomever controls the factors of production, controls the economy. These factors are important for their characteristics […]