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Growing up is hard to do

I was quite amused reading the wide-ranging reactions to Mark Zuckerberg's recent note on, as he sees it, Facebook's role in the world going forward.As an NPR report put it, these reactions went from...

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Theatre of life

Theatre, good theatre that is, has a unique role in society. There is no better instrument to throw reality back at the public, with the well-studied intention of provoking a reaction, whichever that...

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Deskilling access to scientific knowledge

Tim Urban has produced, once again, a fascinating piece on one the topics that will likely shape what our future looks like. This time focusing his attention on Elon Musk and the sheer ambition on his...

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Doughnuts and errors

The other day I came across an interesting article in The Guardian. It was titled, rather unorthodoxly: “Old economics is based on false ‘laws of physics’ – new economics can save us”.Its author, Kate...

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The Founders Factory experience

It has been almost six months since Iris.ai joined Founders Factory in London. In this time our progress as a company has been strong. Post acceleration, as the program nears its end for us, we can...

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A steep learning curve

A couple of weeks ago we published Civio's 2016 Management Report. As in previous years, this is a critical exercise for us. It offers a unique chance to pause and reflect on a full year of activity,...

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Science learning and context

This piece in Quartz focused on a lesser-known US college –St. John’s– where things are done quite differently. Away from current trends towards offering students an increasingly wide array of subject...

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A sad day, from which to learn

Sunday will be a sad day. The illegal referendum called by the Catalonian authorities will come to a head. The Spanish state, and its executive, legislative and judiciary branches cannot and will not...

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Iris.ai version 3.0 launched

We are happy to announce that our baby Iris.ai has taken another little step– this time bringing our free users some new useful features we believe will make lives a bit easier.We are introducing...

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Sobre las pruebas de evaluación de primaria

Los resultados de la prueba oficial de evaluación al finalizar sexto curso de primaria se presentan a los padres mostrando tres comparativas para cada una de las cuatro asignaturas evaluadas: Lengua,...

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Emocracy: an observation

My generation was brought up believing we lived in democracy. In fact, democracy was not only a ubiquitous reality, albeit still a young one in Spain; it was also the uncontested normative optimum from...

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The blockchain’s potential for science

Scientific knowledge is arguably the ultimate decentralized system, particularly as we have transitioned from analogue into digital.By design and intention, the body of information forming scientific...

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AI and work

Over the last couple of years we have witnessed increasing societal concerns regarding the expected impact of artificial intelligence development in the jobs market.This report from Goldman Sachs...

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Journalism and conspiracies

Last week a journalist published an aggressive article on a couple of Spain’s leading digital entrepreneurs. The journalist, Analía Plaza, currently works as freelance for various media. The medium...

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Not all utility tokens are created equal

Article published in Medium on one of the key aspects of Iris.ai’s Project Aiur.  

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Project Aiur white paper

After a lot of work with the team at Iris.ai over the past few months, I am proud to introduce the first published version of project Aiur's white paper.Please be sure to drop us a line if you have any...

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A closer look at the machine

Another article published in Medium on one of the key aspects of Iris.ai’s Project Aiur.  

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Radical markets

'Radical Markets', the recent book by Eric A. Posner and Glen Weyl, has been one of my most interesting non-fiction reads in some time. Unlike the very disappointing 'Parecon' by Michael Albert,...

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Project Aiur token sale

Following months of hard work by our great team, we are fast approaching the kick off of Project Aiur's public token sale.With Project Aiur, our goal is simple: we want everyone who contributes to the...

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Emocracy: an observation

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