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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
After Geo-Politics come Tech-Politics
Politics has always been around, and for me the definition of politics is “the way the population interact with and elect the governing politicians”, interaction seen as a two-way multi-media communication where national discussions take place. Politics have changed over time from lords, to kings and further down to parliaments and presidents. And this interaction […]
The economic impact of our digital footprint
Recently on an interview the chairman of the FED Jerome Powell said that all “free” digital services were not being accounted on the country’s GDP and given this, one cannot visualize their great input to the economy; this is a reality and we may also add that most of these services are related to boosting […]
iPhone a great product with a decreasing value proposition
Steve Job’s brain CEO of Apple gave birth almost a decade ago to what we know today as the Smartphone. This pocket computer and phone all in one was a market disruptor and generated a whole industry that revolves around the technological development of microchips (hardware), man-machine interfaces (software) and marketing (know how). The iPhone […]
Technology puts us into everything
At the end of the 90the century premiered a movie called “The Devil’s advocate” starring Al Pacino (the Devil) and Keanu Reeves (the advocate). The devil was a global reach gangster with his hands in every dirty business and a promoter of war. At the end during a monolog from Al Pacino when it reached […]