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Spain’s blackout: blaming renewables only reveals ignorance and conflicts of interest

On April 28, Spain and Portugal’s power grid collapsed spectacularly. In a matter of minutes, generation fell by more than 15 GW…

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Cerabyte and the Yottabyte Era: storing the future in ceramic

In a world racing toward what many are already calling the “Yottabyte Era,” the exponential growth of data has made the need for durable…

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IMAGE: A rack of Cerabyte glass-looking modules

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From melody to machine: who owns the future of creativity?

Not only is the angry backlash from some established artists against the rise of generative AI short-sighted, protectionist and…

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IMAGE: On a beige solid background, the schematic images in black of a guitar, a dollar sign and a robot

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When tariffs block the machines we need

In its article “Why robots are not the answer to US manufacturing reshoring hopes”, the Financial Times recently dismantled the idea that…

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IMAGE: A robot draped in the stars-and-stripes flag reaching toward a wall of “TARIFF”-branded shipping containers, visually dramatizing how trade barriers keep US industry from the automation it needs

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Prompt, or be prompted: the AI survival skill no one can ignore

Just a few years ago, when people started talking about the idea of a “prompt engineer,” many dismissed it as another inflated tech…

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IMAGE: On a dark, neo-noir palette of deep blues and teals punched through with fiery oranges and reds, in the foreground a silhouetted figure hunches over a glowing laptop, the greenish screen forming the mouth of a speech-bubble that simply says “Prompt.” From that bubble rise swirling, tentacle-like ribbons of color that twist toward the top of the frame. Embedded in the ribbons are a snarling, dragon-headed serpent and two judge’s gavels.

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The things we can now do after we die

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IMAGE: An image of Chris Pelkey generated post-mortem via AI, taken from the video that was used for his impact testimony in the trial

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Digital identity in Switzerland: a democracy’s test of trust

Switzerland, long admired for its model of direct democracy, its regular referendums and its deep-rooted traditions of neutrality and…

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IMAGE: On a Swiss flag background, a ballot box and a hand introducing a vote that reads e-ID

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Who is AI for, us or Big Tech?

If we’re going to avoid the mistakes of the past, we have to understand what will happen if, as everything seems to indicate, Big Tech…

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IMAGE: A female robot dressed like a hooker and surrounded by company logos like Mastercard, Amazon, Coca-Cola and Facebook

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When pseudo-science kills: the human cost of vaccine denial

The COVID-19 pandemic not only left a trail of victims and health crises, but also sowed the seeds of the disinformation that we’re now…

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IAGE: A female patient completely covered in measles, receiving a vaccine

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Autonomy as infrastructure: the new reality of driverless mobility

When we talk about a technology like autonomous driving — developing at great speed but unevenly, limited to a few markets, and once…

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IMAGE: A Waymo autonomous car on a road, under a happy sun

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Enrique Dans

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Professor of Innovation at IE Business School and blogger (in English here and in Spanish at enriquedans.com)

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