More and more publications are starting to use illustrations generated by algorithms such as DALL·E, Midjourney and others to accompany their articles, suggesting a trend from simply demonstrating that it is possible to set an algorithm to generate an image for an article to a more systematic use now that…

With the tourist season in full swing in Spain and awash with hordes of visitors, many of whom haven’t had a vacation in two years, some cities are beginning to question their tourist model, and the impact it has on infrastructure, as well as how to factor in the growing…

Germany’s energy crisis, caused by its dependence on Russian gas, has been the subject of much commentary recently, with some blaming the decision to close its nuclear power plants. Indeed, there has even been a carefully engineered movement in Germany to supposedly forget past opposition and embrace atomic energy. However…

As of tomorrow, Brussels, the de facto capital of the European Union, will restrict automobile traffic in its historic center, the Pentagon or Petite Ceinture, and redirecting it through its ring road. The idea is to drastically reduce emissions and traffic, thereby drastically improving the quality of life for the…

The operation against Tornado Cash by the US authorities and the subsequent arrest in the Netherlands of one of the developers of the open source protocol used by the cryptocurrency platform exposes the problems related to using a technology before it has been fully regulated, and which tends to take…

Spanish radio journalist Carmen Broncano called me to talk about Big Tech’s seeming freeze on hiring, and whether this means there is an oversupply in the industry, potentially making the tech sector a less attractive careers prospect for young graduates. Why is Big Tech slowing down on new hires? The…

No more arguments. Engineers living in the past, ignorant politicians, disbelievers in the early stages of renewables, unconditional apostles of nuclear and other assorted denialists have their summer reading assigned: 15 universities from around the world have published their conclusions on the energy scenario of the future, and demonstrate that…

The idea of a balance between centralization and decentralization came to me from a conversation with another IE University professor, Ikhlaq Sidhu, in which we were trying to understand what factors affect this balance: if we start from biological systems, there are functions that develop in a decentralized way, such…

Epson joins the list of printer manufacturers that have succumbed to the temptation to treating their users like morons, tricking them through fraudulent programmed obsolescence techniques into retiring their printers early, a recurring scam that I first talked about back in 2008 (article in Spanish) and later in 2016. Whatever happened to business ethics? On September 13, thousands of HP inkjet printers stopped working and displayed this error message: “The following ink…medium.com