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The crisis is worth 50,000 euros
The National Statistics Institute has just brought us freshly taken of the furnace the statistics on R&D activities for 2009. Do we have reasons to smile in the Basque Country? The first important piece of information is that there is barely a million euros difference between investment in R&D in 2008 and 2009. So that…
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Net neutrality: sorry, but it’s not that simple
Net Neutrality: Excuse me, but It’s not that simple Today the country picked up the news on the motion presented by the PP before the Senate in which the neutrality of the telecommunications operators is requested to be respected. A neutrality that says that it must “ensure that the data packets that circulate through its…
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The cities of the future and emerging urban services. some reading
In a few days I will be around Barcelona, as I have already been commenting, in a coursein which much of what I hope to contribute has to to do with the role of technology in the configuration of current cities and those of the future. Above all, I am interested in addressing in the…
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fast sidewalks. Losing public space tile by tile
I read at Wall Street Journalan idea that seems intelligent and, in my opinion, contains a few perversions. Perversions of the fine ones, of the imperceptible ones, of those that are hardly noticeable but leave their mark. Come on, a Malaysian drop. They say that they say that in one area of London (the well-known…
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Economic recovery, technology and a new development model
La week I commented on the blog about the case of Silicon Roundabout and mentioned that David Cameron, British Prime Minister, has set his sights on this area, to send a strong signal of how it intends to drive economic recovery through digital technologies (you can find the full speech here): “We’re not just going…
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Physical attraction
I remember very vividly when, in the notes of the college, I brought home an A in physics. It would have been perfect if it had not been accompanied by a 70 in language, an 80 in history and a 30 in mathematics, among other magnitudes, some of them not very great. That the score…
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Vertical Farms: Plant Tomatoes in a Skyscraper
Dickson Despommier is a professor of Columbia University, which has been spreading the concept of vertical farms or vertical farming for years. In summary, these are buildings designed for agriculture, a kind of high-rise greenhouses in which each floor is dedicated to a specific type of crop. As Despommier puts it in this video, the…
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In an urban world the city dissolves
Fictional cities, fictional cities. Human constructions that use the term “city” to legitimize or humanize themselves, to appear to be what they are not, or to hide the absence of the values that correspond to the city. Manuel Saravia< /em> summarizes well these deceptions: city of the image, city of justice, city of golf, city…
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The war continues: content, networks and information technologies and their convergence
The war between the telecommunications sector, the media and information technologies, “almost a hundred years old”, continue to give sequels worthy of debate. And it all started when the markets began to nibble each other in what began to be called convergence. Who will win the battle? The contents have no value without networks that…
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Silicon Roundabout, technology-based urban economy
Silicon Valley< /strong> is the great myth, having a success story of wealth creation linked to the opportunities of new technologies. Who doesn’t want something like that? In Silicon Valley things also twisted with the crisis, but still working and other cities aspire to be the new global hub. The development of cities and the…