One night at the end of the XXth century, a famous British TV program announced the end of the century including biggest changes ever, while images of all kind of ...

These days of confinement and prudence are proving that it is enough for bakeries to open from nine to one. Four hours that provide people their daily bread, and allow the ...

Series of thematic ten-minutes long video interviews, carried out with people from various fields —science, art, business, culture, etc— in order to obtain a vision on the ...

In the field of sociology is called critical mass the amount of people from which a particular phenomenon occurs and acquires an own dynamic that allows it to hold itself and ...

'The future has to be, as they say in Latin America, the good life'. Arcadi Oliveres is a Catalan economist and university (UAB) professor and an active participant in social ...

The History, its changes and evolution of societies is marked by a tension between conservation and change, according S. Aguilar. The evolution of a being or a society is the ...

'We must to take advantage of the full potential of technological change from the point of view of democratization and to reduce inequalities'. Political scientist and expert ...

At present, many voices are warning of the possibility of changing economic and social model. The capitalist model as we know it seems to be coming to an end. This third ...

We all know that we live within advanced societies of liberal capitalist model, in a profoundly individualistic and consumer society. It is a reality that this society, ...

One hundred and fifty years ago, the corporation was a relatively insignificant entity. Now it is a vivid and pervasive presence in all our lives. Like the Church, the ...

If it is true that today the world is at a crossroads, two forces are currently in times of struggle. And if it is true that the we are the system, becomes ever more urgent ...

Zygmunt Bauman is a sociologist and philosopher of Polish origin, best known for his creation and development of the concept of ‘liquid modernity’. Thinker, essayist and ...

The paternalism of State is coming to an end. The corporate slogan of 'protecting the good citizens' is losing credibility in all forms of persuasion. He has not been able to ...

Access to most web pages is free. The service they offer is not paid with money, but many companies obtain something very valuable to commercial interests: from our personal ...

'To change something on a social level, the first thing is to change on a personal level'. Co-founder of OuiShare —a global community empowering citizens, public ...

Periodic, traveling and casual meetings on topics that smell like change, always having a theoretical part and another practical or participatory. The early editions ...

'I know from experience that the more you give, the more you receive'. Mason and militant anarchist born in Navarra, he fled to France in 1954 after defecting from military ...

A new way to see the history of the Universe, Planet Earth and Humanity: the emergence of life, human progress and the appearance of civilization. This documentary, ...

'Decentralization of production will change our position in the territory, and that will change our way of relating'. He studied law, philosophy and business administration. ...

The industry that has evolved the most and the only one that has really evolved is the communication industry; mobile devices, social media, internet and broadband. ...

The current social networks allow us to mold a personal identity with which we relate to the world. Photos, messages, references, comments, videos and songs, strategically ...

The Universal Basic Income is a theory, in relation with economic policy. Although there are numerous precursors —Paine, Fourier, Van Parijs, More, Tobin— in Spain has ...

'Paying for content is an act of rebellion'. Sculptor training, he works in digital environments for advertising since 1994, is the author of multimedia work and digital ...

'Life, and not only human life, will be the protagonist of the future'. Founder of Ideas for Change, a strategic think-tank for clients such as Telefónica, Open University ...

The triangle of violence, defined by the Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, identifies three types of violence and argues that the phenomenon has a similar structure to that ...

It is called 'planned obsolescence' to the determination of the end of life of a product, so that, after a certain period of time determined by the manufacturer, the product ...

Bill Hicks was an American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician. His material largely consisted of general discussions about society, religion, politics, ...

In 2011 the filmmaker Adam Curtis created for the BBC a documentary series of three chapters which holds that computers not only have failed in getting the old dream of ...

'The future is a return to feudalism'. PhD in sociology, specialized in urban ethnography. With over 15 years experience in qualitative research both in New York City and ...

'Freedom as we know it, without limits, will not exist in 30 or 50 years'. Chief Economist in the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean at UNDP —United Nations ...

From birth to fast food in the 30s in the United States, the controversy over the new food industry has constantly arise. Constitutes the industry really the solution to all ...

'To survive, we have to replace competition for collaboration'. A Computer engineer, he has worked for over 40 years in several areas within the field of Technology on ...

'Samsara' is a Sanskrit word meaning 'world' or 'cyclic existence', and also the title of a documentary directed by Ron Fricke and produced by Mark Magidson. The film is about ...

'The change, or the seed of change, has already happened'. Economist, filmmaker and media expert, and not necessarily in that order, has spent 15 years pushing the helm of ...

'Society evolves through culture and communication'. Artist and designer, born in Valencia and in the early 70's he moved to Barcelona to study graphic design. There he ...

Adolfo Doring is a mexican filmmaker arrived to New York City in the mid-eighties to study Sociology at Columbia University, then interned for rock and roll photographer Joel ...

Due the evolution of new technologies and contemporary thought, the future is full of diverse challenges. In the work environment, for example, is a future in which open ...

'I would like a future with a lap down, on one hand, and a step forward on the other'. Born in Bilbao, capital of the world, from early childhood ate very well thanks to his ...

The Common Welfare Economy is an economic system based on values that favour social welfare. These values are already covered in the large majority of national constitutions ...

'A time of such continuous changes hinders any hypotheses about the future'. Bachelor in Hispanic studies, he started his career in advertising at Vinizius, a small ...

In his essay 'Economic possibilities for our grandchildren', in 1930, the British economist John Maynard Keynes predicted that within a century industrialized societies have ...

'We can perfectly annihilate ourselves, and before I saw it impossible'. Founder of Natura, a company specializing in the marketing of exotic products from different corners ...

According to the most common definition of the Royal Spanish Academy, music is the art of combining sounds of the human voice or instruments, or both at a time, so as to ...

'In the future the emotion will be the medium, and hopefully that will bring a more human world'. Bachelor of Business Administration and Management and MBA from ESADE, where ...

'If we fail to improve the collective consciousness, we will end by smackings'. He has a bachelor of Information Science and worked for years as a reporter specializing in ...

For the French sociologist Emile Durkheim, one of the great pioneers in the study of social sciences with Karl Marx and Max Weber, humans are creatures whose desires are ...

Noam Chomsky is an American linguist, philosopher and activist. Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the MIT —Massachusetts Institute of Technology—, he is considered one ...

Gross National Happiness (GNH) or Gross Domestic Happiness (GDH) its an indicator that measures people's life quality in more holistic and psychological terms than the Gross ...

The work of Jose Carlos Meirelles is to document the existence of uncontacted tribes in the Amazon and protect them from contact with non-Indians. The advance of economic ...

'For avoid a gloomy future we must act now'. Agronomist of training, has developed her career in the world of consulting at Andersen Consulting, being Accenture partner from ...

'Individualism as a standard of behavior will need to be corrected'. Businessman, politician and PhD in industrial engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, ...

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher whose work integrates Jacques Lacan’s thoughts with Marxism and in which he highlights a trend to exemplify the theory through ...

Active non-violence is a protest tactic, related to civil disobedience, which calls for a revolutionary politic, social and cultural change without the use of violence. The ...

Magazine of critical thinking about the future of common and universal issues, fact that in practice forces us to also discuss its past and its present. Contents are ...

Thematic festival articulated around the future of a common and universal issue, different in each edition. It is always analyzed integrating the three classical branches of ...

Degrowth is a current political, economic and social thought which proposes regular and controlled reduction of economic output, with the aim of establishing a new equilibrium ...

'The power of machines is going to be so tremendous that we better start thinking what we are going to do with them'. Montxo Algora studied at School of Architecture of ...

'The knowledge and the awareness of what we are are going to change our way of being in the world'. She began as a journalist when she was 17 years old and since then she has ...