Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age, produced by BBVA, is the latest book in the OpenMind series; in it more than twenty authors, leaders in their respective fields, examine the different ways in which the technology driven information revolution is transforming the very princ [...]

Our social environment, how we enjoy ourselves, how we buy, what we study, how we travel,… Everything we do has changed thanks to the Internet and a host of spin-off technologies. Unquestionably this change has also reached the business world. How will the business of the future func [...]

This video summarizes the first chapter of the book Reinventing the Company in the Digital Age, “The Impact of the Technological Revolution”, where authors Philip Evans, Kenneth Cukier, Geoffrey Moore and Haim Mendelson analyze the effects of technological changes in the business wor [...]

The environmental movement took a big leap forward in 1969 as a result of a disaster caused by pollution. We review here that event and some other disasters caused by human action. They are better known for the big shock they caused society than for their impact on nature. From them [...]

“We live in a period of extreme urbanization and an estimated 90% of the population growth will take place in cities,” says Kent Larson, director of the working group Changing Places from MIT Media Lab, in his latest public appearances as a lecturer around the world.

Faced with these [...]

The European Southern Observatory has given the green light to the E-ELT (European Extremely Large Telescope). Construction will last 10 years, in the north of Chile. The E-ELT will be in 2024 the world’s largest optical telescope, almost 4 times larger than the largest at present: [...]

Every two years, the American Institute of Mathematical Sciences organizes the international conference on “Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications”, which was held in Madrid in 2014. Among the numerous subjects addressed in the talks at the conference, there w [...]

Both in our professional and personal/family lives, we try to identify and measure risks; we assess the alternatives; we choose the best option and make sure that it is implemented correctly; and we check whether or not it was successful. If you would like more information about this [...]

Preventing climate change is possible if we act now and adopt policies that reduce energy use by harnessing the energy efficiency potential of renewable resources. However, there is little chance of reaching this objective if our only measure of success is emissions reduction. Climat [...]