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Enrique Dans
On the effects of technology on people, companies and society
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Can cities meet the challenges of micro-transportation?
Can cities meet the challenges of micro-transportation?
The authorities in London are increasingly clashing with rental e-bike companies, along the lines of the problems with e-scooters in Paris…
Enrique Dans
Sep 10
Is typing still an important skill in the AI age?
Is typing still an important skill in the AI age?
A much-discussed article in The Wall Street Journal, “Gen Z-ers are computer whizzes. Just don’t ask them to type”, highlights many young…
Enrique Dans
Sep 9
Salesforce reinvents itself
Salesforce reinvents itself
Salesforce’s $1.9 billion acquisition of Own.co, a specialist maker of tools for backing up data in the cloud and preventing risk, is the…
Enrique Dans
Sep 8
Ticketmaster is a rip off, and everybody knows it
Ticketmaster is a rip off, and everybody knows it
Nobody should be surprised at the latest hullabaloo over Ticketmaster. Its abusive practices have even attracted the attention of the US…
Enrique Dans
Sep 6
Snapchat heads towards enshittification
Snapchat heads towards enshittification
Coinciding with Snapchat’s 13th birthday, founder Evan Spiegel has just announced that the social network will start placing ads in users’…
Enrique Dans
Sep 5
The road looks rocky for the automotive sector
The road looks rocky for the automotive sector
For the first time in its 87-year history, one of Germany’s leading traditional automakers, Hitler’s “people’s car,” is shutting down…
Enrique Dans
Sep 5
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Would you let a robotaxi chauffeur your kids around?
Would you let a robotaxi chauffeur your kids around?
Some screenshots shared on Reddit show a survey emailed by Waymo to a user for test the idea of a new service called Waymo Teen, a…
Enrique Dans
Sep 3
Batteries now make renewable energy a realistic option, so let’s start using them
Batteries now make renewable energy a realistic option, so let’s start using them
There’s a growing consensus that batteries are going to play a central role in creating secure electricity supplies around the world.
Enrique Dans
Sep 2
The inescapable logic of renewable electricity
The inescapable logic of renewable electricity
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 rural economies?
Recent months have seen several large companies known as hyperscalers, which are capable of providing and aggregating memory, network and…
Enrique Dans
Aug 28
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
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