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- Post-AGI voting society
After AGI, UBI plus three votes—consumption, investment, politics—could organise a post-labour society with fair, limited inequality.
- To the stars
Short sci-fi story Prologue Is there something more exciting for a sci-fi enthusiast than time travel? You can travel to the past – back to the genesis of the…
- How to live forever? Immortality is possible.
Longevity science may stall ageing around 2065. The near-term task: stay healthy and solvent enough to meet that horizon.
- 3 future industry trends: space travel, life extension and AI
Three industries to watch over ~50 years: reusable spaceflight, personalised life extension, and problem-solving AI systems.
- Taxation on robots
Ageing Europe and AI-driven job loss threaten the pension tax base. Robot taxes are one option—if we redesign growth to stay shared.
- Smart cities?
Smart-city tools fix traffic and queues—but housing shows digital markets can worsen scarcity. Cities need APIs that enforce planning.
- Interview on Radio Nacional de España
Interviewed by RNE’s Cinco Continentes about my international-relations blog elexterior.es, written while studying Political Science.
- What would be the last job on Earth?
If machines take most work, what is the last job? Creativity and the evolving idea of a “job” may matter more than any final title.
- What economic growth is (2019 update)
World GDP per capita rose ~2.7× from 1960–2014. Growth tracks science and energy—and must still translate into real social progress.
- Facebook innovation
Facebook’s solar drone Aquila aims to stay aloft for days and beam internet down — connectivity without rockets, and a wider sky of uses.
- Digital transformation in logistics
International parcels at a fraction of list price: how e-commerce demand is unlocking big-carrier rates for small Spanish merchants.
- I will buy a Tesla Model 3 in 2021
Tesla’s Model 3 reveal feels historic. At $35,000 and with Superchargers growing, I plan to buy one in Spain by 2021.
- My new role at Bloombees
I left a multinational with no offer in hand — and landed as Logistics Director at Bloombees, building hassle-free cross-border commerce.
- Superforecasters
Amateurs beat intelligence analysts at probabilistic prediction. What superforecasters do — and why forecasting is becoming everyone’s game.
- A short trip to Vietnam
One night, two days in Ho Chi Minh City: long flights, dong maths, war museums, street banners — and a city that already exceeded expectations.
- Should we stay where we are?
Corporate careers once felt safe. Technology and automation are rewriting that bargain. Should you stay — or prepare an exit while you still can?
- Constants in the economy
Economics lacks what physics found in Einstein’s constants: a fixed reference that unites scarcity and abundance. What if that constant were the Earth itself?
- A piece of California in Madrid
Google Campus opens in Madrid — free café access, TechHub desks, and free event space for founders joining London, Tel Aviv, and Seoul.
- Why first-world nations should watch third-world growth: an answer to Krugman
Krugman on developing-world growth is right in nominal terms — but relative ranks, capital outflows, and scarce money change the story.
- The Economist brief science documentaries
Six free Economist Science briefs on time, dark matter, multiverses, life beyond Earth, the Cambrian explosion, and consciousness.
- Peter Diamandis on TED: Abundance is our future
Peter Diamandis’s TED talk on abundance — a bridge between economic growth and the new private space race.
- Great month for private space exploration
Blue Origin’s booster landing, asteroid mining rights, Cosmic Girl, Cygnus, and SpaceX: a landmark month for private spaceflight.
- Meritocracy versus liberalism
Liberalism assumes equal starting conditions; inheritance and networks say otherwise. Merit needs deliberate educational design.
- How I understand economic growth
Growth measured in work-hours, three classic models, and why the long-run data look more like unlimited ingenuity than Malthus.
- My first post
Twenty years ago, sharing ideas meant publishing a book. Today a laptop and a blog are enough. This is my personal page.