globalization

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

by Fernando on April 27, 2010

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 ...

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

by Fernando on April 10, 2009

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 ...

From private to public. Past and future of human privacy

by Fernando on March 8, 2009

Today, we are used to share ourselves with, almost literally, the rest of the world. Hundreds, thousands of people in some cases are able to see us, watch us, read us. We are actually broadcasting our lives. Every little aspect of our lives (thoughts, feelings, knowledge) is being transmitted to ...

Nonzero: The logic of human destiny. Another book recommendation

by Fernando on March 3, 2009

What does History, Number Theory and Evolutionary sciences have in common? Nonzero takes you on a fast ride around the world (I mean the real one, not just the left side of the map) and through history. Sinthetic and comprehensive. Shows that two variables ( information & communication) have been ...