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Internet Archaeology: Life in The Web 15 Years Ago (and How it Looked Like)

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If you were trying to spend your free time browsing in 1995, there wasn’t actually much to do. Nowadays you could say that if it’s not on the internet, it doesn’t exist. Fifteen years ago the online world (AKA cyberspace, for the old-schoolers) was a far smaller place. One problem that used to make the [...]

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Quantum Leap: Epitaph for Binary Society

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The Binary Age We’ve been born and raised in a binary world, a world of opposites where things are either black or white, 1 or 0, good or evil, Ying and Yang, manic or depressive. It’s not a surprise that in psychology, narcissistic disorders (characterized by a polarization of behaviors and representations) account for 60% [...]

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Achieving Your Potential: The Devils Within

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There’s something special about doing what you like most.  Energy never fades away when you enjoy what you are doing while you experience a limitless desire to constantly know and learn more. Freddie Mercury and Jimmy Hendrix were bonded to music; Einstein was devoted to physics and cosmology; Hemingway to literature, Maradona was one with [...]

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The Risk of Using Money as a Motivational Tool

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Managers, educators, parents and politicians are always looking for ways to motivate people.  That’s why when companies want employees to do something unpleasant or difficult they offer bonuses and other financial incentives. The most common practice to motivate people, also the easiest way to do it, is putting money in people’s pockets. It’s the most [...]

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Illegal Immigration is Unavoidable. What Do We Do With It?

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Migration is a phenomenon that not only applies to men, but animals too. If plants could walk, they’d migrate too. Animal species have migrated since life popped in this planet. Cataclysmic events, climate changes or resource scarcity are some of the factors that have triggered mass migrations in a quest for survival. And humans are [...]

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Understanding the Financial Crisis

This video has been circulating the internet for some time now but I still think it´s worth posting. The animation comprehensively summarizes the crisis in just 11 minutes. If I were a high-school or college teacher I’d be showing it to my students. But I’m no teacher so I’m sharing it with you. Rated E [...]

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Only 1 in 40 People Can Drive and Talk on the Phone Without Impairment

While for many of us driving and talking on a cell phone may seem second nature and appear not to carry any associated effort or loss of concentration, research from psychologists of the University of Utah has concluded that 97.5% of us are wrong. Technorati Tags: cell phone, cognitive theory, drunken drivers, exception to the [...]

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Link Love morning! These are some of my favorite blogs

This are the places where I spend the most time when I’m not looking for anything specific, in no particular order.   Global Voices:  aggregates, curates, and amplifies the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. That’s their tagline. It’s a great way to find news, some of [...]

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Apple’s iPad. What a disappointment

It’s finally here. After months of rumors, speculation and a hype level only comparable to that of the iPhone a couple of years ago Apple finally released its “netbook killer” to fill the niche between smartphones and laptops. I’ve been restraining myself from writing about it. After all, who needed another speculative post? What else [...]

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Real Time information is here. What’s next?

Google is too slow, RSS is too slow, traditional media is too slow, printed media is waaaay to slow. Now it seems that anything that has happened more than 20 seconds ago is old. The first sentence of this post is old (depending on how fast you read… wait… now it’s old). We are now [...]

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The e-volution of the internet

I was reading the article Game Web 2.Over? published on meish.org. It was about what’s currently going on with the social web. And it made me think. We are currently in the epilogue of web 2.0 and maybe starting to read the prologue of 3.0. But this is not another post about what’s coming, or how’s it [...]

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What is shaping future generations? Certainly it’s not formal education

Tonight I was watching the latest episode of Fringe, “The road not taken”. In one of the scenes, Walter is explaining Olivia why she’s been having visions. He describes our perception of time as a line, while in reality at every moment our reality unfolds into an infinite number of these lines. Every decision that [...]

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Future Shock. Too much change in a too short period of time

Times are changing, they always are. The particularity nowadays, is that things are changing faster than ever almost everywhere. Alvin Toffler coined the term “Future Shock”. He referred to it as a “personal perception of too much change in a too short period of time”. We are experiencing an immediacy of the future. The future [...]

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Getting better at Recruiting and Retaining (World of HR Management)

Recruiting and retaining are two challenging tasks in the HR/Mgmt world. Key to it, is realizing what population we are considering to fill those spots in the workplace. Today, a great percentage of those applicants were born between 1980 and 1999 and grew up during the 1990s and 2000s . They are the Gen Y. [...]

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Psychoanalysis: yesterday vs. today. Why we need to adapt to our new world

How do I start? It´s gonna be difficult to write this post in a way that everyone can ready it and at the same time don´t commit heresy by not being rigorous and awaken the wrath of my colleagues. Also, I don´t want to get into the “politics” of Freudian Psychoanalysis and the  “war” it´s [...]

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