Technology
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Efraín Foglia | Ferran Esteve | Lucía Lijtmaer | Luis Paadín | Óscar Marín Miró | Ramon Mas Baucells
We invited several authors to explain what this quote by Arthur C. Clarke conjures up for them.
Science
The Quantum Sense IV: Why?
Marta García-Matos
Quantum physics questions several of the intuitive conceptions that we construct following daily interaction with the physical world to make sense of it. One of the most profound is causality, because quantum physics shows that an event can exist without any cause.
Culture
Transforming an institution into a decentralised organisation
Ana Manzanedo | Liliana Arroyo
How teal practices can be introduced into public administration. Five common challenges and three transformative case studies.
Storytelling
The politics of technology-fiction
Andreu Belsunces
Fiction, more than a formula for understanding information, acts as a means of control and a tactical technology capable of opening up other possible worlds.
Commons
Towards a data commons
Enric Senabre | Mayo Fuster Morell
Implications for the whole of society of the data policies of collaborative economy platforms.
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Storytelling
General Theory of Rubbish
Agustín Fernández Mallo
On the evolution of culture, now that we are living in the post era, where artists and thinkers are recycling the remnants of a society that has come undone.
Planet
Timothy Morton: Ecology without Nature
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros
We interview the philosopher Tim Morton, author of “Dark Ecology”, who proposes that we rethink the way we see ecology, anthropocentrism and art.
Culture
Transforming an institution into a decentralised organisation
Ana Manzanedo | Liliana Arroyo
How teal practices can be introduced into public administration. Five common challenges and three transformative case studies.
Education
The Contribution of the Montessori Method to an Uncertain World
Francesc Balagué
We talk with Ève Herrmann about the resurgence of Montessori education and what this may contribute to digital literacy and other challenges in education.
Technology
The end of trust?
Ferran Esteve
After decades of recognition and social prestige, the companies of the digital economy are starting to receive criticisms that are questioning their reputation.
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Sharing Economy
Commons
The Rules of the Game of Platform Cooperativism
Guido Smorto
Legal regulations play a crucial role in the capacity to successfully design and implement cooperative platforms.
Commons
The User Experience in Platform Cooperativism
Enric Senabre | Ricard Espelt
Some thoughts on the design of collaborative platforms and reputation systems that make it possible to build trust and solidarity networks.
Commons
A New Economy: Social, Commons, Feminist, and Environmental
Mayo Fuster Morell
Airbnb, Uber or eBay have popularized the collaborative economy, but where cooperativism is? The concentration of wealth continues in corporations.
Technology
The Keys of Bitcoin and Blockchain
Alan Lazalde
Bitcoin and Blockchain are a new generation of internet systems that eliminates middlemen, financial services that are fairer, transparent and accessible.
Commons
P2Pvalue. Collaborative Production Online
How does value work in the emerging organisational forms? What conditions favour online collaborative production?
Commons
The Wealth of Networks
Mayo Fuster Morell
A review of the book The Wealth of Networks. How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom by Yochai Benkler.
Commons
Mayo Fuster: “There is social production in the digital world, but there is no social economy”
Mayo Fuster, a researcher specialising in the fields of the Internet, politics and social innovation, talks about the commons and collaborative production.
