It’s a trap! is a line from Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi. The character Admiral Ackbar (Erik Bauersfeld), while engaging in an ambush on an enemy weapon, is informed that enemy ships have arrived. Be aware of the deception Technological lock-in occurs when users become dependent on a specific, often inferior or outdated, …
My life as a digital consultant is not that easy. It moves from never-ending international travels to never-ending days of online meetings. It is one way or another; there is no happy medium. When I’m abroad, I miss home. When I’m home, I would like to be elsewhere just because those long “remote” days, …
The featured image of this article shows the main characters of Mr. Robot, an American 4-season psychological techno-thriller television series created by Sam Esmail for the USA Network. It stars Rami Malek as Elliot Alderson, a cybersecurity engineer and hacker with social anxiety disorder, clinical depression, and dissociative identity disorder. E Corp, renamed by …
“2 + 2 = 5” is one of the songs I love the most of the UK band Radiohead (watch them play it live in London here). This “2 + 2 = 5” title, taken from George Orwell’s “1984,” symbolizes the forced acceptance of a self-evident falsehood imposed by a totalitarian power. It represents …
A few years ago, between 2017 and 2019, I spent a lot of time going back and forth from Lausanne in Switzerland to London, where I was attending a Business School for Startups, willing to launch my own venture. That experience gave me the opportunity to be seated in an open space full of great …
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Bubble Bobble is a 1986 platform game developed and published by Taito for Japanese arcades (if you don’t know what an arcade is, first of all shame on you, then read this Wikipedia page). Players control Bub and Bob, two dragons who set out to save their girlfriends from a world called the Cave of Monsters. In each level, Bub and Bob …
“You are not the customer. You are the product.” This phrase, or versions of it, have been popularly cited over the past few years as a criticism of social media. “Free as in speech, not as in beer.” Richard Stallman, the infamous GNU/Linux OS (Operating System) project’s lead architect and organizer, explained that free …
If you’re not paying for the product, you are the product. Read More »
A buzzword is a trendy word or phrase, popular in a specific field (often tech or business) and frequently used in the media and conversation, though sometimes excessively or abusively, losing part of its original meaning. It often sounds authoritative, but can be vague or devoid of specific content, such as “artificial intelligence”, “digital transformation”, …
Who in this network has never tried to switch off and on any electronic device to make that work again? And how many times has it worked? Probably more than 60% of the times. The featured image in this article is taken from one of the most British and hilarious sitcom called The IT …
Hello, IT. Have you tried turning it off and on again? Read More »
“The Gorilla Experiment” is the tenth episode of the third season of the American sitcom The Big Bang Theory, where Sheldon attempts to help Penny understand physics to impress Leonard. Sheldon begins his lecture back in ancient Greece, where people would look up at the stars and see some of them move in the night …
