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Naider

  • City and technology at 30 Next Ame

    A few weeks ago < a href="http://americancity.org/magazine/issue/i30/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Next American City, one of the most accurate ways to follow news and emerging issues in urban issues, publishes its 30th issue, dedicated to the relationship of cities with the new technological currents that seem to offer solutions for improving urban functioning. Most of the articles are…

  • Electrical system simulator tests

    Via Pedro Linares I have reached simulator of the Spanish electricity system created by Alberto Ferrero Cándenas for the Technological Research Institute of the Comillas Pontifical University. The tool, still in testing, offers the possibility of playing with different parameters (efficiency and % of national and imported technologies for electricity generation) to simulate what the…

  • Trust in Apple is trust in innovation

    This week Apple has surpassed Exxon as < strong>the most valuable company in the world, signifying a business milestone that illustrates the confidence of markets and investors in innovation. We all know the meteoric rise in both price and sales that Apple has experienced in recent years after the latest addition of Steve Jobs. Apple…

  • smart city. Emerging technologies for urban functioning

    I take advantage the summer to leave in a unified document the posts that I published a few months ago on the subject of smart cities, which have generated so much information avalanche in recent times. There were a few articles that tried to organize somewhat the different analytical perspectives on a complex issue due…

  • we are not asleep

    Dear friends I want to share with you the next lines, not because I want to believe that with them you can try to change our current society in something, but because I need them to get out of my head as soon as possible, and that with their stealthy but piercing voices they do…

  • Do not confuse cool with business

    A few weeks ago I was on Rodolfo Carpintier’s blog on post “Cool doesn’t always mean business” talking about the hundreds of cool apps being developed for Android and/or iPhone that don’t generate business. From a broader point of view, the question of discerning between “cool” and a real business opportunity has always interested me…

  • Philips lands in Castilla y León

    A few weeks ago we were surprised the news of thepurchase of Indal by part of Philips. Since then we have a new multinational corporation in Castilla y León. Will the region play its cards right this time? Surely this move carries certain threats. We know all too well what the distance from decision-making means:…

  • The decision to leave a million dollars on the table

    In relation to start- oops we have everything to learn from Americans, and especially from the San Francisco area. In the video hosted at the following link you can listen to a very interesting interview that Paul Hontz from The Startup Foundry makes Darshan Shankar (co-founder of Flotype). In the interview, the entrepreneur explains why…

  • Fighting the car invasion…in 1896

    I discover a curiosity on the blog The Urban Country. As reflected in the photograph -the cover of the San Francisco Call– in 1896 thousands of protesters -100,000 people, according to the newspaper; that is critical mass– gathered to protest against what, already then , they considered an illegitimate and excessive invasion of an appliance…

  • Get out of the crisis. The Great Reset

    The edition of the latest book by Richard Florida is available in Spanish. The great reset. New ways of living and working to promote prosperityis the embodiment of the author’s vision of the consequences of the current crisis in the reconfiguration of the economic geography in North America mainly. It is, together with the book…