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 […]
Tag: Geo-politics
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Huawei vs. Trump
Let’s be real, we are living in a time when a multinational company battles against world super-powerful countries and end up defeating them. This is the case of Google vs. Iran, AirBnB vs. Spain or Uber vs. every country; in most of these cases the multinational has gotten its way. Today we are in the […]