Read Umair's piece here – some pretty hard-hitting observations here! A chat app bought for one fifth of the US educational budget. An Uber for dog-walkers....
Lectura obligada: el inminente problema de que nuestros iPhones sean más inteligentes que nosotros
The Coming Problem of Our iPhones Being More Intelligent Than Us https://singularityhub.com/2015/04/24/the-coming-problem-of-our-iphones-being-more-intelligent-than-us/ (via Instapaper) by Vivek Wadhwa Kurzweil, a renowned futurist and the director of...
27
Abr 2015
A Sucker Is Optimized Every Minute - why total optimisation is not...optimal (buena lectura vía NYT)
The gut is dead. Long live the data, turned out day and night by our myriad computers and smart devices. Not that we trust the...
18
Mar 2015
Su abogado pronto podría ser un algoritmo... (pero ¿qué es... pronto?)
“AI making legal decisions is a compelling idea. Not only is it more efficient, but couldn’t it somehow be more just to place decisions in...
08
Mar 2015
Cuidado con el ascenso de la oligarquía digital (buena lectura a través de The Guardian)
“Our personal data reflects our interests, our desires: it is a digital extension of our soul. By giving it away so freely to social networks,...
07
Mar 2015
Nuevo tema de ponencia: transformación digital en telecomunicaciones y TIC
As some of you may know, I have always done quite a bit of work in telecom, mobile and ICT but am now getting a...
24
Sep 2014
¿Sabías que tenías diabetes? Está por todas partes en Internet (lectura interesante vía Bloomberg)
This is a good read on a topic I have been looking at very closely – which personal information can be used online for what...
12
Sep 2014
Interesante artículo del NYT sobre la economía colaborativa: ¿Libertad e incertidumbre para los trabajadores?
A really interesting post presenting some of the key issues behind the rise of ‘sharing economy' leaders such as Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit and AirBnB. Some...
24
Ago 2014
Este es tu cerebro en el móvil (vía Medium): ¿obsesión por eternizar el momento?
This is a MUST-READ piece This is your brain on mobile — Medium by Jeremy Vandehey. Best snippets: As a human being, many of these triumphs...
25
Mayo de 2014
La transición hacia energías limpias es imparable, ¿por qué luchar contra ella? (lectura obligada de Chris Nelder)
Just ran across this interesting piece by energy analyst Chris Nelder, in the Huffington Post More about Chris The clean energy transition is unstoppable, so...
20
Abr 2014
How You, I, and Everyone Got the Top 1% All Wrong (gran artículo de Derek Thompson sobre la desigualdad)
Another great ‘penny-drop' piece by Derek Thompson / TheAtlantic. Really made me think about inequality and how dramatic it has become in the U.S., particularly...
06
Abr 2014
Revuelta contra la sublevación de los robots ? La clave para vencer a los robots -en las películas y en la vida real- es hacer lo que ellos no pueden (vía Entrepreneur.com)
Why You Should Revolt Against the ‘Robot Uprising' According to statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the manufacturing industry lost 2.3 million jobs in the most...
30
Mar 2014
¿El Big Data es sólo una gran estafa?
Made me think! Big Data Is Just a Big Scam https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2455435,00.asp This all harkens back to a comment made by a former CEO of American...
30
Mar 2014
La economía del futuro: Muchos perderán su trabajo por culpa de los ordenadores (vía USAToday)
The future of work and jobs is quickly becoming a major theme in my work this year. Read this piece below for context. Future economy:...
23
Mar 2014
Qué pasaría si el crecimiento económico ya no fuera posible en el siglo XXI (buena lectura vía TheWeek.com)
This post is spot-on and brings up some key questions. Be sure to read the whole thing. What if economic growth is no longer possible...
21
Mar 2014
The Pointlessness of Unplugging : The New Yorker (buena lectura relacionada con mi meme de la obesidad digital)
Interesting point below; yet I think of unplugging more like scheduling a diet – just having a few days where you eat less, and get...
21
Mar 2014
Airbnb ni siquiera posee una cama, pero sus patrocinadores creen que es más valiosa que Hyatt - Quartz
Pretty amazing – digital economics and hyper-efficiency at work;) Airbnb, the website emblematic of the “sharing economy” that matches up travelers online with people looking to...
21
Mar 2014
Vista desde mi "lugar de trabajo" temporal aquí en São Paulo
Video Sao Paulo on a sunny day— HUGE CITY.MOV Spending a day here for the NextNow in Sao Paulo ... Leer más