Innovations, Ideas, and Insights14 Stories

In this collection, sponsored by BBVA through its knowledge community OpenMind, expert contributors explore a variety of timely technology issues and trends. Among them: the growth of big data, the impact of the networked economy, the cultural change created by online games, and the evolving politics of the Internet.

  1. Anthropology: What we have learned over the last decade

    Modern humans not only produced offspring with now-extinct human species such as Neanderthals, but much of today’s human population shares genes with these ancestors.
    February 7, 2020
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  2. The future of AI’s impact on society

    As artificial intelligence continues its rapid evolution, what influence do humans have?
    December 18, 2019
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  3. Behavioral economics: Past, present, and future

    The discipline, which draws on psychology to determine why people make the choices they make, is seeing a renaissance. But it wasn’t always distinct from its “rational” cousin.
    October 10, 2019
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  4. The past decade and the future of cosmology and astrophysics

    Technological advances will continue to expand our understanding of the cosmos. They may also offer an awareness of the future of the human species and the planet in its charge.
    August 5, 2019
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  5. Data for a new enlightenment

    A new science of social physics is needed to make sense of the vast amounts of data now gathered and monitored, and to use it to help society, all while detecting changes in the human condition.
    June 14, 2019
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  6. The impact of digital activism on post-Cold War politics

    What exactly brought down the Berlin Wall?
    May 8, 2019
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  7. The new media’s role in politics

    Forms of new media have introduced an unprecedented level of instability and distortion into the political communications system.
    March 11, 2019

  8. Reality regained: An inquiry into the data age

    The explosion of data and advances in computing power are radically transforming daily life.
    February 15, 2019

  9. The crisis of social reproduction and the end of work

    High-income societies are facing the rise of precarious employment.
    November 5, 2018

  10. Advanced tech, but growth slow and unequal: paradoxes and policies

    Slowing productivity growth in major economies amid seemingly booming technology presents a paradox.
    September 12, 2018

  11. From the age of perplexity to the era of opportunities

    Finance for Growth
    July 13, 2018

  12. Undoing Aging with Molecular and Cellular Damage Repair

    Since the dawn of medicine, aging has been doctors’ foremost challenge.
    November 28, 2017

  13. Human Legacies When Robots Rule the Earth

    Machines have been displacing humans on job tasks for several centuries, and for seventy years many of these machines have been controlled by computers.
    October 3, 2017

  14. Our Extended Sensoria. How Humans Will Connect with the Internet of Things

    Mark Weiser predicted the Internet of Things in a seminal article in 1991 about how people would interact with networked computation distributed into the environments and artifacts around them.
    August 1, 2017