social trends

What Do Google’s Driver-less Car and Killer Drones Have in Common?

by Fernando on October 27, 2010

Google’s utopian vision of the future now includes us riding in the back seat of our cars surfing the net, watching movies and drinking coffee while our cars gets us safely to our destination. What this vision doesn’t trigger in our minds is the not-as-charming-path that had to be walked to achieve this futuristic reality.

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 ...

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

by Fernando on April 1, 2009

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 ...

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 ...