Category: Tech

SOCIAL MEDIA AS A CONTEMPORARY NEEDS OF MANKIND

Abstract: Social networks are one of the most popular ways of communication in the world. Learning its wise use and knowing the alphabet is one of the fundamental steps to pursued, with greater tenacity in health, due to the risks and benefits that these powerful tools offer. Social media has become a powerful vehicle to…

Is Collective Intelligence the answer to our Global Challenges?

“No problem can be solved from the same consciousness that created it. We must learn to see the world anew” A. Einstein In my last article, I wrote about the change of era we are experiencing and introduced the idea of leveraging our collective intelligence, to address the challenges we collectively face in this globalized world.…

Blockchain or blockchains?

blockchain or blockchains

In the previous articles we have seen the technical characteristics of the blockchain and the function of the logs in the communication protocols, but there is only one blockchain managed model or the templates are more than one? What are the consequences of the fact that this is a distributed register? Permissioned blockchain o unlimited…

The nightmare of Harvey and climate change

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Parts of the Houston area set a record for rainfall from Harvey storm in the United States. The unofficial five-day total in some Texas locations reached 51 inches on Tuesday. That easily tops the previous five-day record for the contiguous U.S. in Medina, Texas, into 1978. The flooding has resulted in at least 30 deaths,…

The blockchain or the new telematic traceability mechanisms of transactions

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We increasingly hear about blockchains and the attention that the most diverse institutions, public and private, turn to this technology testifying its importance as a tool for telematics traceability of transactions; but what is and how does the most popular “distributed” protocol of the moment work? The term “blockchain” (literally “chain of blocks”) indicates a…

The battle of Maduro vs the Venezuelan Ecosystem

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There is only one natural resource that is now available in larger amounts than in the past: humans. Connecting them, in novel, pervasive, widespread and affordable manners, is perhaps the biggest breakthrough enabled by digital technologies” Fabrizio Sestini Any attempt to perform an analysis of the current political and social crisis in Venezuela, which does not…