‘Ansibles, profilers and other ingenuity machines‘ analyzes how advances in technology affect our relationships and sentimentality. “Technology has created new feelings in humans, such as the double blue tick on WhatsApp to know if someone has read you and does not want to reply. It is a feeling that no one has felt before in the history of mankind.“says Andrea Chapela in an interview with EFE.

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Chapela explains that one of the ways to tell the story of technology with the human being is to try to get closer, where we have created means of communicating over great distances such as the letter, the telegraph or the Internet.

“The promise of these technologies was that with them we will understand each other, communicate, be able to say things to each other…“, he assures. And for her – although she does it in many ways – she ends up creating new problems by not knowing the “tone” of the person when she speaks, by feeling that people must be “available” all the time in this immediate communication that we have created.

“It has changed the relationships between people and with each new technology they change even more.“, laments the writer.

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The Mexican continues to wonder how much of her hometown is in what she writes, for although many of his stories take place in Mexico City, it was not something he had decided in advance but rather that he had discovered while writing them.

“I realized that writing futurism from Mexico City was not going to be the same as other science fiction stories I had read that were set in New York, Los Angeles, or Tokyo.“, noted.

And he explains that Mexico City has a special relationship with technology, it’s like you live even if it’s “very polluted, is very dangerous or that the journeys are endlesspointing out that everything eventually fits, even if it’s late or in a different way.

“On rainy days, you see how, of all these advances in technology, nothing works exactly as it should. For me, there is something of that, of a half-implementation where, at the same time, people are very creative with these gaps that remain from these half-things.“, he specified.

“Ultimately it’s trying to paint a brushstroke on how this present and this future that I’m proposing come together“, he concludes.
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In September 2021, the Wall Street Journal published an exclusive that shook the world: Facebook was aware of the serious harm it was causing to society, but it was not interested in fixing it. A month later, the person responsible for the leak of the confidential files which proved it came out of anonymity.

This is Frances Haugen. The young former Facebook employee has accused Mark Zuckerberg’s company of putting its economic benefits before the well-being and safety of its users. Haugen left the company in May 2021, but not before collecting tens of thousands of internal documents.

It is a dystopia, in which an authoritarian and theocratic power has taken control, and in which women have lost most of their rights and freedoms, to be forced to accept the role that those in power determine for them.

Under the new social regime, her only value is to be a fertile woman, and her only task is to deliver her body once a month to her master, the “commander”, so that it can be fertilized. I invite you to read this novel by the eminent and prolific Canadian writer Margaret Atwood.

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A leader may feel overwhelmed by one or more factors in their personal or professional life. But this book reminds us that facts are just facts, and it’s how we relate to them that really affects us.

Armed with this discovery, he invites us to rebuild our relationships with five fundamental aspects of our lives: 1 time; 2 money; 3 the self (or ego); 4 friendships; 5 the unknown. After learning to establish relationships based on trust and not on fear, the leader will be able to develop their skills at the transactional and transformational levels.

The publication is the beginning of a process of reflection on digital communication in Latin America. It approaches the phenomena of digital communication from the epistemologies of the countries of the South in the social, political and cultural spheres of the region.

The book covers topics such as digital logic, digital convergence, artificial intelligence, virtual and augmented reality, and its impact on communication processes in various fields.

It is distributed free of charge and accessible through the Uninpahu web portal and will soon be available on the official website of the Universidad Nacional de Quilmes, with the aim of making it accessible to the entire university community in Latin America and the world.

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