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: Economy
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 […]
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 […]