The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.
Tim Berners-Lee
This book, Ch@nge: 19 Key Essays on How Internet Is Changing Our Lives, is the sixth installment in BBVA’s annual series devoted to the exploration of the most important issues of our time. We seek out the world’s leading experts and ask them to use a straightforward approach and language accessible to laypeople to explore the best and most current knowledge on topics that matter to us all. Over these past few years, we have been incredibly fortunate to have presented the work of more than 130 authors at the forefront of their [...]

This week we recommend Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work and Think, by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger and Kenneth Cukier.

Mathematical algorithms, the Internet and an asset that is rising in value: information. These are the three ingredients of a revolution th [...]

Since the appearance of Kuhn’s thesis in the 1960s, we have been told that advances in science are made in leaps rather than continuously. When a paradigm which is accepted and recognized by the scientific community and which has been added to with successive contributions over subse [...]

This week, in an event hosted by Fundación madrid+d, Raquel González, the Madrid Delegate for Doctors Without Borders, shared with OpenMind a revealing perspective on the advances of medicine and the priorities of medical investigation. With the 21st century well underway, there ar [...]

In the past power grids have been based on large power plants that supply electricity to end users via transmission and distribution networks built many years ago. This traditional model has done a good job of providing power reliably and securely. But growing demand for renewable en [...]

These are the first definitions of the verb “to read” which appear in the Royal Spanish Academy dictionary:

1. Pass one’s gaze over what is written or printed, understanding the significance of the characters used.
2. Understanding the meaning of any other type of graphic representat [...]