The first post on this blog is from ten years ago. It’s titled: “Hostages of the Instant .” Essentially, it defines how technology is a reflection of human beings . Because the apps we download are, ultimately, the lives we choose. In that post I analyzed which apps were the most downloaded in 2015 and…
What’s most infuriating is that everything that happened was a foregone conclusion. And one that almost everyone prefers to ignore. Meta has just closed the most expensive legal settlement ever signed by a tech company regarding consumer protection. The word “consumer protection” sounds ironic. Up to $17.1 billion, spread over ten years, to end the…
Wine protects the heart. Wine causes cancer. Salmon is the perfect food. Salmon contains mercury and microplastics. The sun gives you vitamin D and protects your bones. The sun burns your skin and can kill it. You have to lift weights to live longer. Excessive physical exertion wears down your joints and heart. You have…
Employees are adapting to AI faster than organizations are adapting to them. Companies that are creating a competitive advantage are building the operating models and capabilities that translate AI adoption into real business impact . McKinsey’s 2026 research , captures one of the most important realities facing business leaders today. A global survey of employees…
The future we’re heading towards is already saturated with technological enthusiasm, anxiety about automation , and predictions that become outdated before we can even understand them. STALMANÍA has built a different space because it yearns for a different future . Over the course of eleven episodes, Andy Stalman , myself, a representative of Generation X…
What I enjoy most about X (formerly Twitter) is that everything “reaches” me two or three days earlier than on LinkedIn. But above all, every day I come across a new study on science, medicine, technology, astrophysics, or biology that opens up worlds of information and knowledge that are quite foreign to me, but that…
There are regions that for decades have pulsed to the rhythm of the combustion engine and forged steel. Wuhu, in China’s Anhui province, was for a long time an undisputed bastion of that traditional metallurgy. However, witnessing a delivery ceremony where entire fleets of humanoid robots —like the AiMOGA models, developed by the Chery ecosystem…
A study by Harvard and MIT has just created the largest synthetic population ever assembled. It could change research, experience design, and branding. It could also make us believe we know people better than we actually do. A few days ago, a study was published with a title that seemed written to grab your attention,…
Why, in an era where artificial intelligence seems to decide everything, the brand becomes the most critical strategic asset of the business. Over the past two years, many boards of directors have been asking themselves the same question, although hardly anyone is saying it out loud: if artificial intelligence is going to decide what to…
There are weeks when the news seems to belong to different worlds. ByteDance trains a gigantic model. Google reorganizes the leadership of DeepMind. SoftBank earns billions thanks to its stake in Intel. An artificial intelligence designs viruses that didn’t exist in nature. Users begin to interact with their chatbots as if they were people. And…