Kilowatto

Columns

What I write about tech, AI and business

  1. 2026-01-10

    Dr. GPT Will See You Now: Why "AI Triage" Should Be Public Policy, Not a Guilty Secret

    While the medical elite marvels at Artificial Intelligence’s ability to detect pancreatic cancer or fold proteins in record time, a much quieter, yet massive revolution is happening on the streets—or…

  2. 2026-01-09

    The "VIP Club" of Hardware: Why 2026 Will Be Tougher Than the Pandemic for Your IT Department

    We warned about this in this space just a few weeks ago: the shutdown of Crucial's consumption model was the canary in the coal mine. But what seemed like a smoke signal on the horizon has now turned…

  3. 2025-12-19

    From the Cloud to Orbit: When Earth Runs Out of Power

    For two decades, we've been living under a misleading metaphor. We call it the "Cloud," but it's actually a deeply terrestrial infrastructure: thousands of acres of concrete warehouses, underwater…

  4. 2025-12-18

    AI is real, the NVIDIA bubble isn't: The dragon has already awakened

    No one doubts that Artificial Intelligence is the most radical technological change since the birth of the Internet. It's a real, powerful, and transformative wave. But there's a huge difference…

  5. 2025-12-10

    AI Ate Your Memory: Why 2026 Will Be the Most Expensive Year to Buy Tech

    Sometimes, the most important news in the tech industry doesn't come with fireworks or loud keynotes, but with a discreet press release that marks the end of an era. Micron's decision to shut down…

  6. 2025-12-09

    The Silent "Tax" of AI: Capital Flight and Jobs That Never Materialize

    I vividly remember the sound and heat of computer labs back in 1999. I was working at a graphic design university just as technology was accelerating the pulse of creativity. It was fascinating,…

  7. 2025-12-08

    The Fragility of the Cloud: Eggs, Baskets, and the Broken Promise of the Internet

    About seven years ago, I started talking - perhaps too insistently - about a latent risk in the digital economy: hyperconcentration. I warned that we were putting too many eggs in too few baskets.…

  8. 2025-01-29

    Why I Invested in Frida Café

    Investing in Frida Café has been one of the most fulfilling decisions I’ve made. Not just because coffee is one of my greatest passions, but because this project represents tradition, health,…

  9. 2024-09-05

    80 hours a week

    Until a few months ago, my news consumption was borderline absurd. Let's take a look at a typical day in my life: - 6 am: Las Noticias de las 5:50 on #ForoTV. - 7 am: Estrictamente Personal with…

  10. 2024-08-23

    The New LinkedIn is a Disaster

    Introduction The only social network I actively use is LinkedIn (I use YouTube, but that's a topic for another article). Today, I woke up to find that LinkedIn has changed - it now has a video…