Author: Marcelo

New short story: The Zoom Journals

Monday. Your connection has some issues: people seem to answer your comments slightly before you say them. You are too…

New short story: The Friendly Buildings

Scattered among the brutally degentrified neighborhoods of the former New City lie the Friendly Buildings, windows unbroken, cameras spry. When…

New short story: The barista who could disarm nuclear bombs

She didn’t know she could, not having seen one during the week the skillware was in her glasses’s software library….

New short story: The Green Gears

Sometimes she pictured small computer screens inside each leaf, code scrolling through them like a bad movie’s idea of what…

New short story: Gold in the Blood

Genetic engineering could buy athletic potential, not the willpower to train and win, or at least that’s what your father…

“Aplanar la curva: la ciencia de datos como articuladora de políticas de Estado”

El Centro para la Evaluación de Políticas basadas en Evidencia (CEPE) puso en línea “Postpandemia: 53 Políticas Públicas para el…

New short story: The Truth About Clones

“Forget all the sci-fi you’ve watched. The fantasy of the evil clone is a form of the terror of the…

New short story: Red Requiem

The collapse of the first base on Mars was a harrowing one, sparked by a software error leading to the…

Beyond Kahneman – How to think very slow

(Based on an Instituto Baikal talk. Spanish version here.) The central simplification of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow (itself…

New short story: The Frankenstein Society

You had thought them a laboratory legend, but now one of their agents was in yours, pointing a gun at…