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Enrique Dans
On the effects of technology on people, companies and society
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The inescapable logic of renewable electricity
The inescapable logic of renewable electricity
In 2023, more than 85% of new electricity came from renewables, especially solar and wind. Out of a total of 553 new power plants built…
Enrique Dans
Sep 1
Musk, Brazil and the limits of human stupidity
Musk, Brazil and the limits of human stupidity
The latest twist in a saga of brinkmanship involving two giant egos has seen a Brazilian judge order the blocking of access to X: in short…
Enrique Dans
Sep 1
OpenAI readies to join the gods of technology on Mount Olympus
OpenAI readies to join the gods of technology on Mount Olympus
OpenAI’s difficulties in building an economically viable company, despite increased revenues, mean that it has had to launch a new funding…
Enrique Dans
Aug 30
Can the bots be stopped?
Can the bots be stopped?
A scholarly article in the latest issue of the leading Information Systems journal, Management Information Systems Quarterly (MISQ)…
Enrique Dans
Aug 30
What the West could learn from China
What the West could learn from China
Applying Newton’s Third Law to the complexities of geopolitics may be little more than an exercise in journalism, but it’s worth looking at…
Enrique Dans
Aug 29
Could growing demand for data centers help drive growth in Spain’s rural economies?
Could growing demand for data centers help drive growth in Spain’s ...
Recent months have seen several large companies known as hyperscalers, which are capable of providing and aggregating memory, network and…
Enrique Dans
Aug 28
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What the arrest of Pavel Durov tells us about freedom of expression in the West
What the arrest of Pavel Durov tells us about freedom of expression in the West
The arrest in France of Pavel Durov, the creator of Telegram — and formerly of VKontakte, known as VK, puts me in the strange situation of…
Enrique Dans
Aug 26
It looks like China is the place where we’ll be buying our humanoid robots
It looks like China is the place where we’ll be buying our humanoid robots
A notable addition to the World Robot Conference this week in Beijing has been the number of Chinese companies, almost 30, that have…
Enrique Dans
Aug 25
Why two NASA astronauts faced added danger because of incompatible spacesuits
Why two NASA astronauts faced added danger because of incompatible spacesuits
Two astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS), Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams, will now return to Earth on a SpaceX…
Enrique Dans
Aug 25
Can cryptographically authenticating content help prevent fake news?
Can cryptographically authenticating content help prevent fake news?
In November 2019, Adobe, The New York Times and Twitter, concerned about the spread of fake news and the ease of producing it, founded the…
Enrique Dans
Aug 23
Disney’s magical world of terms and conditions
Disney’s magical world of terms and conditions
A married couple, one of whom, a doctor, is allergic to nuts and dairy products, sit down to eat at a Disney World restaurant. Following…
Enrique Dans
Aug 22
Three home truths about the car that we just can’t accept
Three home truths about the car that we just can’t accept
Ever since Henry Ford began marketing his mass-produced Ford Model T in 1908 with an ambitious low-price strategy to give every American an…
Enrique Dans
Aug 21
Developing AI could be turning into a zero-sum game with some major losers
Developing AI could be turning into a zero-sum game with some major losers
It seems increasingly apparent that the companies developing generative AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and the like face a long…
Enrique Dans
Aug 20
Could open source provide a better, more accessible AI?
Could open source provide a better, more accessible AI?
The Open Model Initiative, recently created by three artificial intelligence companies, Invoke, Comfy Org and Civitai, as a…
Enrique Dans
Aug 19
Nvidia and the nature of copyright
Nvidia and the nature of copyright
In March of this year, three writers, Brian Keene, Abdi Nazemian and Stewart O’Nan began legal proceedings against Nvidia because some of…
Enrique Dans
Aug 18
Google and the nature of the beast
Google and the nature of the beast
As the discussion continues about where the data used to train generative algorithms should come from and how much the companies developing…
Enrique Dans
Aug 17
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