A view inside China’s high speed train network
Traveling in China at 300 Km/h!!!!
Personal mumbling
This isn’t funny anymore….
Until a few days ago, the majority of the current Trump administration actions and policies affected mostly US citizens. Last week’s Middle East and Europe trip was troubling for other reasons, such as the “tremendous” arms sale to Saudi Arabia, a country really as far away from the democratic ideals of the USA Founding Fathers …
Another view on how automation could affect your work
BBC’s take on the subject
Snapshots from the near future: Part 1
A taste of a country undergoing the 4th Industrial Revolution Part 1 A taste of mirror world In his 2003 novel titled ¨Pattern Recognition¨, Canadian writer William Gibson develops the idea of a mirror world, a sort of different approach to develop manufactured objects and products according to cultural and intellectual differences. In many aspects, for …
Snapshots from the near future: Introduction
A taste of a country undergoing the 4th Industrial Revolution Introduction A difficult question to answer At the 2016 Hannover Messe the country featured as a partner was the United States. Which, still under the Democrat Obama Administration sought to collaborate with the EU and specially with Germany in fields like sharing cutting edge technologies to …
LG G4: it will rock you for 1 year, then it will make you discover the blues…
Do you believe in love at first sight? In December 2015 in a business trip to Frankfurt I acquired a LG G4 smartphone. I had read great reviews in several websites and was considered a great “flagship” device for the entire LG mobile phone product line. It had a gorgeous display, was amazingly fast, had …
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An interesting interpretation of Brexit
Why Brexit happened and how it can affect us. https://embed.ted.com/talks/alexander_betts_why_brexit_happened_and_what_to_do_next
Nano-spike catalysts convert carbon dioxide directly into ethanol
While trying to develop waste-to-fuel technology, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory accidentally found an electrochemical process that uses tiny spikes of carbon and copper to turn carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, into ethanol. Their finding, which involves nanofabrication and catalysis science, was serendipitous. A full account of the discovery can be …
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70 hours between the lights and the shadows of LA
The sunset had already started when I got into the Nissan that G drove for Uber, this was an Uber pool, meaning that G was picking up and down different passengers along the way. After a couple of solo Uber rides, I found out that pooling not only made the ride cheaper but also a …
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A brief introduction to the Industry 4.0 concept
An interesting way to explain the benefits that could be obtained from the integration of IT developments into manufacturing….