Water is an irreplaceable human need, an indispensable resource for the economy and plays a key role in the climate regulation cycle. Drinking water is indispensable for the survival of all life. We use 10 billion tonnes of it a day, but that is not enough, we
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Just think, it is now one step away from being possible. Pull up the lever on your home’s electrical panel, and it connects with a ray of energy coming from the sun and bounced off a satellite: no cost, no ecological damage, no end. An existing network
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Modern life is closely linked to computers. But classic computer technology has already largely reached its limits. Scientists are therefore looking for new directions that could make a revolutionary breakthrough in computing. The most promising is considered to be the quantum computer, which should be much more
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Nature surrounds us, both as macrocosm and microcosm. The macrocosm consists of objects that are proportionate to man and perceptible to the senses, such as animals, plants and various physical bodies. The microcosm, on the other hand, is a collection of extremely small objects such as molecules,
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“Any technological innovation can be dangerous: fire has been so from the beginning, and language even more so; you could say that both are still dangerous today, but no man could be said to be so without fire and without speech”. This was said by science fiction
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The industrial age has cost humanity a profound climate change, which is occurring at an unprecedented rate. This process resembles the rapid changes that have affected the Earth’s ecosystems in its geological past and which – therefore – can help us prophesy and direct future choices. Or,
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Space exploration is the most striking example of the triumph of human intelligence and its perseverance in exploring the unexplored corners of the universe. Not so long ago, just over a century, the ‘flight to the stars’ was the prerogative of science fiction writers, but already by
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The world is in constant need of novelty, real or imagined. The myth of unstoppable progress did not die with the end of industrial capitalism fifty years ago, when mankind realised that it is not possible to increase production indefinitely, but it is possible to increase consumer
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This is the image of the entrance to a New York shopping mall at almost midnight on Thanksgiving Day. Although the phenomenon seems to be (very) slowly decreasing[1], the place where the vast majority of Westerners spend their leisure time is a shopping mall – a non-place:
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Even the rich cry. It happens, as in the famous Mexican telenovela, that a misunderstood billionaire is left holding the bag. A proponent of hyper-technological progress, Mark Zuckerberg[1], is abandoned by investors. The dystopian vision of the project and a lack of clarity drive away
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