Web Summit is turning green

Last week IESE had a presence at Web Summit in Lisbon and I came away much more optimistic about the world's future as perhaps we will be able to reign in some of the more dangerous aspects of the web and also find ways to adress environmental problems.

The Olly Robbins’ Show

When the British civil servant Olly Robbins was first compared with Grigori Rasputin, the Russian cult-figure and self-proclaimed prophet, by some Brexiteer Conservative MPs, most of us were surprised. Then when the former head of Ml6, the British Secret Service, Richard Dearlove, said that Robbins “had serious questions of improper conduct to answer over the…

AI: Robots against Humans, or For Humans?

Automation of jobs is an unfolding phenomenon at the moment. As discussed in one of my previous blog posts, there is some sense of worry and anxiety concerning this. There are industry reports, statistical estimates and numerous media articles, which all suggest the possibility of robots replacing humans across many jobs, of robots ‘taking over’… For example, drivers…
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