Juan Manuel Lucero

Ideas

Essays and articles on artificial intelligence, media and the craft of telling what is changing.

Archive

08/2012 · HISTÓRICO
Buying followers, or the zero value of looking successful
The rise of social networks brought a lot of frustration to newcomers: gaining followers is a slow process, usually tied to the…
08/2012 · HISTÓRICO
Ecce Homo, from social creativity to meme
Cecilia Giménez, an elderly Spanish woman, tried to restore a painting in a visibly deteriorated state. Driven by the wish to…
07/2012 · HISTÓRICO
Armchair revolutions
A #hashtag sets cyberspace on fire: crowds gather angrily on Facebook walls to protest, memes swarm forums and comment sections,…
05/2012 · HISTÓRICO
Electronic voting: a danger to democracy
Democracy is at risk behind the widespread assumption that electronic voting is an improvement over traditional voting. Yet…

Artificial intelligence

12/2025
The difference between "thinking" and predicting the next word
A language model can write complex code, solve differential equations and discuss Borges's influence on contemporary literature…
11/2025
Brains in jars, grounding, or why AI needs a body
Large language models are disembodied brains floating in digital space…
11/2025
The illusion of continuity: how AI weaves memory without having a past
There is a moment in interacting with an artificial intelligence that feels strangely intimate…
10/2025
From words to numbers: how AI builds meaning
For centuries, language was considered a border between the human and the artificial…
10/2025
AI and science, promising advances
Discovering new cancer therapies has historically been an immense challenge…
10/2025
How does an AI "learn" to read and write like a human?
Computers do not understand words, only numbers…

Innovation and entrepreneurship

12/2019
Technology has to serve people
03/2019
In uncertain times, innovation is sustainability's best ally
07/2016
Innovation and entrepreneurship: keys to business success

Media and journalism

02/2026
New generations and how they consume information
Young people aged 18 to 25 are building their own information systems, and they will not wait for traditional media…
12/2018
Media outlets, butterflies or chameleons