In November 1957 we sent a little curly-haired stray dog to certain death, her name was Kudryavka and we all know her as Laika, the space dog, the first living thing to orbit the earth. For all of us, the mission was a great success, proving that animals can withstand microgravity and learning that if …
If we stop to think about the world we lived in 20 years ago, we are bound to be able to point to a number of substantial differences. However, few of them will be comparable to having almost every imaginable piece of information at a click of a button, in our trouser pocket. In this …
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Less than 3 years ago, I was at university, about to take the leap into the world of work, full of completely different ideas to the ones I currently hold. I went through the job search phase and a year into this new phase, a lot of “truths” that I had grown up with came …
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The turn of the year is full of reflections, illusions and goals. As was not to be outdone, 2018 has left us pensive and we have started the 19th by taking stock. As the question is the tool that best serves us to investigate the issues that occupy us, we have asked ourselves what we …
Yes, today’s products and services are growing and expanding really fast. Looking at the image below, we can see the increase in the speed at which different products or services have spread to reach 50 million users. TRENDS The digital component of products or services has helped significantly to accelerate the speed of adoption. On …
TRENDS The digital component of products or services has helped significantly to accelerate the speed of adoption. On the other hand, the global competition we are facing is boosting the innovation process. When something works, it spreads almost immediately. Although trends emerge more and more quickly, it is true that they are also more ephemeral. …
In last week’s post we looked at the planetary conquest of our species, and the influence that abstract concepts and imagined orders had on it. Today we will analyse the common factors between the blockchain and these abstract environments of trust that 70,000 years ago marked a substantial difference between Homo Sapiens and the rest …
Today in our blog we are going to talk about Blockchain from an anthropological point of view. We are going to look at some of the human characteristics that were indispensable to achieve our dominance of the environment, and how blockchain-based systems mimic these characteristics. What made us different “100,000 years ago at least six …
Today is Monday, 23 July 2018 and we live in the most advanced world ever seen, and at the same time, we will never know a world as old as this one. A few millennia ago, humans emerged as the dominant species on the planet and this brought with it a responsibility to care for …
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Faced with the pollution caused by single-use plastics, Europe is proposing a change in the consumption paradigm. The European Commission has put forward a series of measures to reduce the impact of single-use plastics, especially in the sea. It wants to ban the marketing of single-use plastics for which affordable alternatives are available. The products: …
