When I was an 8-year-old kid, my grandfather called and invited me to listen to his new record. It was a vinyl recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. I don’t remember which version was or what orchestra performed it, or which director was at the helm. All those details were meaningless for that 8-year-old […]
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An unexpected phone call
Last Friday I was doing some research for my next article (it feels so good either writing or telling this phrase) when suddenly a message appeared in my LinkedIn account.It had been sent by a Pakistani process automation engineer that was working installing some electrical equipment in an industrial plant located somewhere in the south […]
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The present
This story was inspired by a discussion thread in a sci-fi Facebook group.
“Space Oddity” was the first Bowie song that I heard, it was haunting, beautiful and otherwordly. I heard it while looking for new stuff for the “radio” that was my responsibility in high school in the early eighties. The’”white thin duke” trend and fad still had to come. In those years I was a weird, […]
A few weeks ago, in order to get my family updated regarding Star Wars background details, we went through the original trilogy via Netflix. And after watching all the classic sequences, I started to think about the lessons in Process Automation that can be extracted from the original trilogy. No, really, I’m not under the influence […]
At 5 past 7 on the 25th day of an unknown month, my analog wristwatch, a heavy piece of precision machinery made of stainless steel and scratch proof cristal, had stopped working. This simple story could have been absolutely irrelevant to most of the people I know. For me it represented a particularly significative event. […]