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Technology rumblings, and a bit more

Waiting for yet another Industrial Revolution

5 July 202126 July 2021 Raul Zambrano

The PC revolution. The Internet revolution. The mobile revolution. The social media revolution. The blockchain revolution. And the AI re-revolution. We seem to be living in times of Permanent Revolution. […]

Vaccine Inequality

21 March 20213 April 2021 Raul Zambrano

Already under siege in many quarters, Globalization has now added the seemingly unstoppable spread of the Corona Virus to its already dubious credentials. As expected, not one single country has […]

Contentious Politics in the AI Age

15 June 20207 August 2020 Raul Zambrano

Initially touted as revolutionary and progressive in the 1990s, the lightening evolution of digital technologies, running on the coattails of continuous innovation, has been accompanied by the rise of both […]

Covid19: A “Swedish” Model?

25 May 202031 May 2020 Raul Zambrano

Having been trashed for the last forty years or so, Governments have unexpectedly taken back center stage thanks to the Covid19 pandemic. The virus does not need a passport to […]

Natural Disasters and Carbon Concentration

15 March 20204 April 2020 Raul Zambrano

In 1988, the Brussels-based Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) launched the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) with the idea of promoting national and international humanitarian support to […]