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Enrique Dans

On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at enriquedans.com since 2003)

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Capitalism

IMAGE: A depiction of the so-called “robber barons”, by Joseph Keppler (1889) for Puck magazine, showing ten fat business people with top hats overlooking and dominating the US Senate

IMAGE: A depiction of the so-called “robber barons”, by Joseph Keppler (1889) for Puck magazine, showing ten fat business people with top hats overlooking and dominating the US Senate

Under Trump, the United States is about to enter another Gilded Age

IMAGE: On a blue sky with clouds background with an hexagonal pattern on top, the text in white reads “Free Our Feeds: saving social media from billionaire capture”

IMAGE: On a blue sky with clouds background with an hexagonal pattern on top, the text in white reads “Free Our Feeds: saving social media from billionaire capture”

Could Free Our Feeds free us from the control of rapacious, politicized social networks?

IMAGE: Several cocaine lines ready for being snorted

IMAGE: Several cocaine lines ready for being snorted

It’s time to take action against the digital pushers

IMAGE: A shoipping cart filled with all sorts of ultra-processed foods and snacks

IMAGE: A shoipping cart filled with all sorts of ultra-processed foods and snacks

Technology as neither good nor bad: ultra-processed foods

IMAGE: The word “Costs” written with chalk on a blackboard, with a diagonal arrow pointing upwards

IMAGE: The word “Costs” written with chalk on a blackboard, with a diagonal arrow pointing upwards

It looks like we’re finally going to have to wake up from the low-cost dream

IMAGE: A person wearing a suit and a tie, with a light bulb instead of head and angel wings, symbolizing venture capitalists and/or angel investors

IMAGE: A person wearing a suit and a tie, with a light bulb instead of head and angel wings, symbolizing venture capitalists and/or angel investors

Venture capital: when creative disruption becomes destructive creation

Biden begins to redefine capitalism

The July 9 executive order signed by Joe Biden on “Promoting Competition in the American…

China: working your head off

A long and very interesting article in the Financial Times, “‘Obedience and fear’: the brutal working…

Deep Dives: a new Refind format

Dominik Grolimund, founder of Refind, one of my favorite news reading applications, contacted me to ask…

Can capitalism really be reimagined?

A proposal by the Omidyar Network, the philanthropic investment organization created by eBay…