The digitalisation of Europe, under the motto "A Europe fit for the digital age", is one of the six political priorities of the elected European Commission president, Ursula Von Leyden. Among the measures that are planned to be deployed to achieve this goal is working towards Europe´s technological sovereignty. European leaders has discovered full of panic that our digital dependency from US and China may cronified and make Europe definitively an economic colony of these countries.The...
The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity by Kwame Anthony AppiahMy rating: 3 of 5 starsIt would difficult to find a more appropriate writer for a book about the absurdity of identities than Kwame Anthony Appiah. The author is mix-race person, which descend from high-class but self-made families from different countries and religions, and he is also openly gay. Taking all this background he spends various a little more than two hundred pages deconstructing religions, nationalities, races, classes...
Some years after the first wave of Internet based digital technologies, we started to notice the appearance of a new kind of individuals that we called "digital natives". Their unadvertised emergence was a surprise for all the social and economic structures, from private companies to governments, who quickly need to develop measures and actions to serve their needs and satisfy their yearnings. Nobody expected that a new breed of applications may have such a global and quick impact on humanship...
El ambiente festivo reinante se negaba a irse todavía, extendiendo su sonrisa un poco más si cabe. Marcos había aprobado hace no mucho las oposiciones y desde hacía menos de un año ya ejercía como funcionario directivo de nivel medio. Un trabajo muy duro en épocas opositoras unido a su gran brillantez, no pasaron desapercibidos y pronto recaló en proyectos de envergadura en el ámbito público.Cualidades no le faltan, es un chico joven pero maduro, en plenitud física y mental. ...
One of the main fuels that propels the dystopian visions of our future is the fear for the end of human usefulness in the working place. Although labor has been seen along the history of humanship as an ugly consequence of the original sin, it has also been the source of the daily resources needed for living such as food or housing. Therefore, the raise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) usage as a substitute for human labours at work has given way to a new wave of ludite movements. Nevertheless,...
This have been the "annus horribilis" for the great US technological companies, the so called GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple). The multiple data breach scandals have ignited a general lost of confidence in the ability to preserve their users privacy, the impact of targetting political campaings in electoral process have spread the awareness of their big and unleashed influence power and their plans to extend their businesses to a growing number activty areas, such as finance, has raised...
La playa de los ahogados by Domingo VillarMy rating: 4 of 5 starsLa segunda entrega de las aventuras de Leo Caldas es un salto de calidad en la obra del autor. Sin perder la gran habilidad para perfilar a los personajes que demostró en "Ojos de agua", las descripciones del entorno de la trama ganan en profundidad y realismo. Resulta imposible, por ejemplo, no sentirse ahogado por la claustrofobia de la vida en Panxon en el primer tercio de la obra. Tan sólo sigue sin convencer las forzadas...
