Storytelling
Spud Crazy
Martí Sales | nomdenoia
A text playing on the history of the potato, on the frontier between essay and fiction, tensing the format of a text, to think about literature and other knowledges without floodgates.
Education
Learning and teaching with digital technologies
Júlia Coromina
When integrating ITCs into the classroom it is important to evaluate to what degree it enriches the relationship established between students, tasks and contents, and teacher.
Technology
The 4.0 revolution and its tunes
Ramon Sangüesa
As in the previous pointzero revolutions, the story of efficiency and economic growth coexists with the possibility of an alternative narrative that situates the community at the centre.
Culture
Flexible institutions for a fast-changing world
Ana Manzanedo | Liliana Arroyo
The time has come to convert the public administrations into flexible, distributed spaces with a shared purpose and meaning.
Commons
Two self-managed Grecs
Joan Carbonell
What can we learn from the first two editions of the Grec, a self-managed, egalitarian and ground-breaking festival at the height of political and cultural upheaval?
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Culture
Flexible institutions for a fast-changing world
Ana Manzanedo | Liliana Arroyo
The time has come to convert the public administrations into flexible, distributed spaces with a shared purpose and meaning.
Culture
Towards a new Design Atlas
Efraín Foglia
Social and industrial changes in recent decades are urging a reconsideration of design typologies, with a re-reading for the current era.
Education
Learning and teaching with digital technologies
Júlia Coromina
When integrating ITCs into the classroom it is important to evaluate to what degree it enriches the relationship established between students, tasks and contents, and teacher.
Technology
World Siliconization
Éric Sadin
The irresistible expansion of digital liberalism points towards regulating, for the sole purpose of benefit, the course of life through algorithms.
Technology
Not computable
David Casacuberta
Algorithms are not yet able to capture all the nuances of a human decision, so there are some decisions that, for the moment, only we can take.
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Artificial Intelligence
Technology
Machines Now Know How to Terrorise Humans
Cristina Sáez
The Shelley Project studies how to produce horror stories as a result of collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence.
Technology
Machines and Humans: We Need to Talk
Andreu Belsunces | Marta Handenawer
The rise of personal virtual assistants calls for reflection on who is helping whom, and to what extent we will delegate tasks to machines.
Storytelling
The book to come
Javier Celaya
Artificial intelligence, big data, and virtual reality are set to change the book world over the next ten years.
Technology
When Creativity Ceased To Be (Exclusively) Human
Jose Valenzuela Ruiz
How do artistic artificial intelligences work? We analyse what seemed to be the last stronghold of human creativity.
Science
On the Multiplicity of Intelligences
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
What is intelligence? How can we accurately define a concept that we only understand superficially?
Science
Avatars, Cyborgs and Robots: Can Humans Enhance Themselves? (I)
Sandra Álvaro
The design of bionic prostheses and the creation of intelligent machines are some of the advances made towards enhancing our physical and intellectual abilities
Science
Avatars, Cyborgs and Robots: Can Humans Enhance Themselves? (II)
Sandra Álvaro
Codifying human beings and increasing the processing capacity of computers has made it possible to create machines that can respond to our actions.
Technology
Living with Smart Algorithms
Sandra Álvaro
Algorithms enable us to create smarter machines, but their lack of neutrality and transparency raises new challenges.
Technology
Algorithmic Injustice
David Casacuberta
In light of the increasing use of algorithms to automate decisions, we do not just want them to produce results that are correct. They must also be fair.
Science
The “uncanny valley” hypothesis in robots
Ferran Esteve
The "uncanny valley" hypothesis holds that when a robot looks almost, but not exactly, like a human being, it causes disconcert and revulsion in the observer,