Engineering Eden: lessons from remote Fordlândia 100 years later by Nicolás Boullosa on July 11, 2024 Henry Ford sought to control his rubber supply by building Fordlândia, a model community in the Amazon. But transplanting the …
Unofficial history of databases, from tally sticks to passports by Nicolás Boullosa on July 4, 2024 Humans have managed to store information in different formats to avoid the fallibility of memory. However, keeping track of life, …
News discovery is broken: information access after social media by Nicolás Boullosa on January 12, 2024 I’ve talked to friends over the months about a new type of internet mourning: the death of social discovery of …
They wanted affordable & livable housing. They got company towns by Nicolás Boullosa on December 21, 2023 Fed up with constraints around a lack of enough housing inventory around their sprawling offices that could alleviate pressure on …
Beyond electrolysis: do reservoirs of pure hydrogen exist? by Nicolás Boullosa on March 1, 2023 Despite its easy logistics and flexibility (it can be used in fuel cells and adapted to combustion engines), hydrogen is …
Can tech skip overlords? Additive manufacturing & small shops by Nicolás Boullosa on November 17, 2022 As of today, it takes more energy and resources to make a battery-powered electric vehicle (BEV) than its internal combustion …
Risk aversion getting in the way of essential breakthroughs by Nicolás Boullosa on June 23, 2022 It’s challenging to bring urgency to diffuse problems whose dire consequences happen over time, bringing fatalism to the situation —and …
Futurism vs neo-Luddism: battle of frontiers of thought/tech by Nicolás Boullosa on October 25, 2021 For its proximity to San Francisco, mild weather, access to the outdoors such as Tamalpais, the old hippy enclaves by …
Una industria a la espera de baterías de 1,6 millones de km by Nicolás Boullosa on August 11, 2020 Los conductores más cuidadosos han logrado en ocasiones extender la vida del motor de combustión de su vehículo hasta el …
Evocación universal en tiempos de confinamiento: la biofilia by Nicolás Boullosa on May 28, 2020 Los episodios más escabrosos de reclusión forzosa en lugares reducidos nos harían revisar la primera literatura de terror, así como …
