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Enrique Dans
On the effects of technology on people, companies and society
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Cyber-attacks: now a threat to global stability
Cyber-attacks: now a threat to global stability
The recently elected administration headed by Rodrigo Chaves in Costa Rica is facing what is possibly the largest ransomware attack in…
Enrique Dans
May 18
Netflix and the terrible tendency toward isomorphism
Netflix and the terrible tendency toward isomorphism
Since the value of Netflix’s share price began plummeting in November due to some numbers that seemed to portend an overly competitive…
Enrique Dans
May 17
Programmatic advertising, or spying on an industrial scale
Programmatic advertising, or spying on an industrial scale
A timely report by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties, entitled “The Biggest Data Breach” (pdf), looks at programmatic advertising and…
Enrique Dans
May 16
Google at 25: could things have been different?
Google at 25: could things have been different?
It seems a growing number of people are looking for alternatives to some of Google’s most popular products, such as search and email. For…
Enrique Dans
May 15
Let’s leave autonomous cars in peace to do their job
Let’s leave autonomous cars in peace to do their job
An article in MIT Tech Review, “It will soon be easy for self-driving cars to hide in plain sight. We shouldn’t let them”, explains how…
Enrique Dans
May 15
Elon Musk and the entrepreneur’s (mental) bandwidth.
Elon Musk and the entrepreneur’s (mental) bandwidth.
The news that Elon Musk may be reconsidering his Twitter takeover bid, after shaking the world with the news, has more to do with the fear…
Enrique Dans
May 13
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Distributed work, myths about innovation and a lack of ambition
Distributed work, myths about innovation and a lack of ambition
The more time passes since the days of lockdown and mandatory distributed working, the more I realize how many organizations are lacking in…
Enrique Dans
May 12
This is no blip: things are going to get very real for Big Tech
This is no blip: things are going to get very real for Big Tech
On Monday, the Dow Jones index plunged 600 points, with the S&P 500 falling below 4,000, its lowest levels in over a year. In just three…
Enrique Dans
May 11
As electric vehicle sales rise, emissions fall
As electric vehicle sales rise, emissions fall
Research by JATO Consulting of carbon dioxide emissions in the European Union over the past year shows that the sharp increase in electric…
Enrique Dans
May 11
Apple: why a forced return to the office will lead to a brain drain
Apple: why a forced return to the office will lead to a brain drain
Ian Goodfellow, one of Apple’s most important machine learning engineers experts, who has made important contributions to the area of deep…
Enrique Dans
May 9
If you had a 100 tons of free luggage, what would you take to the Moon?
If you had a 100 tons of free luggage, what would you take to the Moon?
I have to confess that as somebody who studies disruptive innovation, my interested was piqued when SpaceX engineer, Aarti Matthews…
Enrique Dans
May 9
Soaring VPN downloads are a symptom of all that is wrong in Russia
Soaring VPN downloads are a symptom of all that is wrong in Russia
There has been a huge rise in the use of virtual private networks (VPNs) in Russia since the start of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, with…
Enrique Dans
May 7
If redlining is illegal in the real world, why isn’t it illegal online?
If redlining is illegal in the real world, why isn’t it illegal online?
A lawsuit filed by US citizen and dismissed by a Washington DC court could create a very interesting civil rights question: what right does…
Enrique Dans
May 6
Why data is the future of healthcare
Why data is the future of healthcare
A growing number of studies around the world show that healthcare is steadily evolving into a science based on the analysis of mass data…
Enrique Dans
May 5
Grindr case represents everything that is wrong with online advertising
Grindr case represents everything that is wrong with online advertising
If further evidence of everything that’s wrong with online advertising were needed, look no further than the recent revelations surrounding…
Enrique Dans
May 3
Why aren’t we applying self-driving technology to public transport?
Why aren’t we applying self-driving technology to public transport?
The first self-driving bus in the United Kingdom, developed by a company called Fusion Processing, begins road tests this week, initially…
Enrique Dans
May 2
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