Tag: infraestructuras digitales
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Who holds the key
En febrero de 2017 el Metropolitan de Nueva York puso en internet más de trescientas setenta y cinco mil imágenes de su colección para usar, compartir y remezclar sin restricción. Hoy pasan de cuatrocientas noventa mil. El Smithsonian abrió en 2020 con casi tres millones de piezas digitales y hoy supera los cinco millones, en…
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Measured and reserved
Las cifras circulan ya con la seguridad de los hechos. Los centros de datos del mundo consumieron unos 415 teravatios-hora en 2024, cerca del 1,5 % de toda la electricidad del planeta, y podrían acercarse a los 945 en 2030. En Estados Unidos fueron 176 teravatios-hora en 2023, un 4,4 % del consumo nacional. Entrenar…
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The design was the damage
Today, 26 August 2026, Meta has reached a settlement with a coalition of attorneys general from 47 states and several United States territories to conclude the lawsuit accusing it of designing Instagram and Facebook to cultivate dependency in minors. It will pay at least 12.1 billion dollars over ten years, a figure that could reach...
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Changing skin
We have been convinced for years, and with good reason, that we rely excessively on a handful of American platforms. That the European public discourse occurs within infrastructure designed in California, governed by its laws and refined by algorithms that reward indignation, constitutes a genuine problem of autonomy and democracy. Hence the impulse, increasingly...
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The Empty Sieve
In 1959, a company was founded in New York that sought to accomplish something that then sounded like science fiction: to predict human behaviour using a computer. It was called Simulmatics. It gathered over one hundred thousand interviews from old surveys, divided voters into four hundred and eighty categories, and simulated how each group would react to the issues...
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The narrative we fund
Five and a half kilometres from the centre of Toledo, on an estate known as Zurraquín, lies a five-hectare stage where fifteen hundred years of Spanish history are performed each evening. The production is titled El Sueño de Toledo and serves as the heart of Puy du Fou España, the first complete establishment outside of…
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It is not equidistance, it is manipulation: Musk and the myth of a socialist Hitler
On 8 August, the wealthiest individual in the world wrote on his own social network that Hitler was a left-wing socialist. This was neither a slip of the tongue nor an isolated incident: in January of the previous year, he had already endorsed this thesis while in conversation with the leader of Alternative for Germany, who maintained in his presence that…
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The common pool
In September 2019, the cellist Zoë Keating published her figures. Two hundred and six thousand and eleven streams on Spotify that month. Seven hundred and fifty-three dollars. A year earlier, she had accumulated two million streams from two hundred and forty-one thousand listeners across sixty-five countries, and that yielded twelve thousand two hundred and thirty…
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That which no longer launches
On 31 December 2020, Adobe withdrew support for Flash. Twelve days later, it blocked the execution of any content still utilising it. For almost everyone, this was a footnote, the end of a technology that had been dying for years. For museums that had collected internet art, it was another…
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The museum that is not seen
When one traverses a great museum, one has the impression of viewing its collection. One is not viewing it. One is viewing a minuscule selection, and the remainder—the vast portion—resides elsewhere: in climate-controlled warehouses, in numbered crates, on grid racks where paintings hang on edge like folders in a filing cabinet. The…