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Ideas sobre el futuro, la IA y los negocios para pensar el mañana desde el presente y soñar con los ojos bien abiertos.]]></description><link>https://www.futopix.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LL2b!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F69c3a90e-7940-492d-b41b-6ae8f3718ad3_1280x1280.png</url><title>FUTOPIX | Futurismo para gente despierta | Gabriel Bedoya</title><link>https://www.futopix.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:29:44 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.futopix.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Gabriel Bedoya]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[es]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[gabrielbedoya@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[gabrielbedoya@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[FUTOPIX | Gabriel 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unos con argumentos muy s&#243;lidos, otros no tanto. Personalmente pienso que a muchos de los <em>sponsors</em> de esta tecnolog&#237;a les importa poco o nada si la IA tiene la capacidad de borrar a la raza humana del planeta. Me acord&#233; de la pel&#237;cula de <strong>Leonardo DiCaprio y Jennifer Lawrence, </strong><em><strong>Don&#8217;t Look Up</strong></em><strong>:</strong> un profe de astronom&#237;a y su estudiante de doctorado descubren un asteroide en ruta de colisi&#243;n con la Tierra, del tama&#241;o justo para causar el Armaged&#243;n y eliminar a la humanidad de tajo, y se pasan el resto de la pel&#237;cula tratando de que alguien, cualquiera, mire hacia arriba. <strong>Se las recomiendo! </strong>Cambien el asteroide por IA y se les van a poner los pelos de punta con el parecido, porque como dicen muchos, a veces la realidad supera la ficci&#243;n.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora bien, soy de los convencidos de que estamos lejos de que una IA desate una guerra nuclear a la manera <strong>Skynet/Terminator,</strong> y no por fe, sino por arquitectura: <strong>el comando nuclear es el sistema menos interoperable que ha construido la humanidad, </strong>y a prop&#243;sito (l&#233;anse la Toma 47, <em>Cuando el mito se hace realidad</em>). Pero esta semana quise hacer el ejercicio contrario. Quise pensar, en fr&#237;o y con el diario de campo abierto, qu&#233; pasar&#237;a si una IA se tomara el control global y decidiera eliminarnos. <strong>&#191;Qu&#233; necesitar&#237;a para ser verdaderamente aut&#243;noma? &#191;Y qu&#233; poblaciones humanas quedar&#237;an fuera de su alcance?</strong> Ese es el eje alrededor del cual gira esta entrega.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Abr&#243;chense los cinturones, porque aqu&#237; arranca esta vuelta.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xNV2!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fec4c45f8-c0af-4f8e-8a43-f36dc528d77d_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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No por un fin de semana, no por un mes, no por un a&#241;o. Para siempre! &#8220;para siempre&#8221; es una palabra que en ingenier&#237;a no existe. Por lo que esto implicar&#237;a resolver, como m&#237;nimo, los siguientes problemas estructurales.</p><h4>1. Autonom&#237;a Energ&#233;tica</h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Todos sabemos que la infraestructura que hace posible la IA es una devoradora de energ&#237;a. S<strong>in energ&#237;a simplemente no hay IA,</strong> raz&#243;n por la cual el primer problema que Skynet tendr&#237;a que resolver ser&#237;a controlar la generaci&#243;n, la producci&#243;n, el transporte y el mantenimiento de la red el&#233;ctrica. Si bien esto podr&#237;a resolverse con robots, hoy esa no es una posibilidad real. <strong>Para que una IA fuese cien por ciento aut&#243;noma tendr&#237;a que hallar la forma de esclavizar a una parte de la poblaci&#243;n humana para coordinar las tareas de motricidad fina, o desarrollar robots provistos de ella (a&#250;n as&#237; los robots tendr&#237;an que ser entrenados por alguien en motricidad fina), lo que implica que la IA y sus robots necesitar&#237;an la capacidad de autorreplicarse, cosa que hoy no es posible sin intervensi&#243;n humana.</strong> En consecuencia, una IA aut&#243;noma tendr&#237;a que gestionar fuentes de energ&#237;a, detectar cortes, aislar aver&#237;as y equilibrar generaci&#243;n y consumo en tiempo real, que es exactamente lo que hoy hacen miles de operadores humanos con casco, radio y lonchera.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Otro aspecto que tendr&#237;a que resolver es qu&#233; hacer en caso de apag&#243;n. Si entra en <em>modo off</em>, &#191;c&#243;mo vuelve al <em>modo on</em> sin causar da&#241;os sist&#233;micos? El respaldo con bater&#237;as y UPS es un factor cr&#237;tico, y Skynet, por m&#225;s lista que sea, no puede reemplazar una bater&#237;a con un <em>prompt</em>.</p><h4>2. El Diablo Est&#225; en los Detalles</h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Don Hermes Pinz&#243;n, el pap&#225; de Betty la Fea, en la serie dec&#237;a permanentemente que <strong>&#8220;el diablo est&#225; en los detalles&#8221;,</strong> y es precisamente ah&#237; donde nadie busca. <strong>La infraestructura perif&#233;rica de la IA es la m&#225;s vulnerable de todas.</strong> S&#237;, si, esa&#8230; la que todos los &#8220;expertos en inversiones&#8221; viven despreciando porque no se llama ni <strong>Nvidia ni Tesla.</strong> Todos estos&#8221;expertos&#8221; viven embriagados con el Kool-Aid de esas dos, y los Cisco, los HPE, los Arista Networks, Broadcom, Marvell, Celestica y compa&#241;&#237;a&#8230; &#161;bien, gracias!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Pregunten cu&#225;ntos Data Centers en la mitad de la nada tienen que parar de operar por un <em>access point</em> quemado, un <em>switch</em> roto, una memoria obsoleta o, inclusive, un puto rack de acero donde no cabe un servidor. <strong>Un dispositivo de quinientos d&#243;lares puede dejar parado un Data Center de cien millones, y hasta de m&#225;s.</strong> A veces me da mucha risa con estos expertos que saben much&#237;simo de acciones y nada de conectar fierros. Viven promulgando el verbatim que m&#225;s odiamos quienes alguna vez hemos dise&#241;ado servicios: <strong>&#8220;eso no es sino&#8230;&#8221;.</strong> Como dec&#237;a mi mam&#225;: &#161;vayan con ese manto a misa!</p><h4>3. A los Fierros les da Gripa</h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Otra vulnerabilidad que pocos saben es la refrigeraci&#243;n. Trabaj&#233; una buena temporada de mi vida dise&#241;ando Data Centers para miner&#237;a de bitcoin, y <strong>cr&#233;anme, a esos cacharros les da hasta gripa.</strong> Un centro de miner&#237;a no es muy distinto de uno de inferencia de IA, y por eso los ambientes controlados son fundamentales en esta industria.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lo primero es el control ambiental. <strong>Un Data Center necesita operar bajo una temperatura &#243;ptima, alrededor de 85 grados Fahrenheit (unos 29 grados Celsius), para maximizar su eficiencia.</strong> M&#225;s calor o m&#225;s fr&#237;o, y la eficiencia cae. Por eso la refrigeraci&#243;n es factor cr&#237;tico de &#233;xito. Normalmente se usan dos familias de refrigeraci&#243;n: la basada en agua y la basada en aire acondicionado. La primera es mucho m&#225;s econ&#243;mica y eficiente que la segunda, y por eso es de las m&#225;s usadas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lo segundo es el control de lo que flota en el aire. <strong>Un Data Center en el desierto, con una cantidad enorme de part&#237;culas en suspensi&#243;n, va a tener muchos problemas.</strong> Uno en zona muy h&#250;meda va a tener agua donde no debe, y uno en &#225;rea muy fr&#237;a tambi&#233;n tiene sus bemoles. <strong>Polvo, tierra, agua y hielo: no bueno.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora bien, si yo hiciera parte de la resistencia que va a combatir a Skynet, <strong>lo primero que har&#237;a ser&#237;a quitarle el acceso al agua para hacerle insufrible la refrigeraci&#243;n y luego le cortar&#237;a el suministro de energ&#237;a.</strong> Entonces los sabelotodos van a decir: pues que refrigere con aceite y energ&#237;a solar. Entonces la pregunta seguida es: <strong>&#191;qui&#233;n fabricar&#225; el aceite? &#191;C&#243;mo operaran en invierno, en la noche y como almacenaran la energia para los periodos de no luz solar?</strong> Como ven Don G&#233;rmenes tenia bastante raz&#243;n, el diablo est&#225; en los detalles.</p><h4>4. La Lista de Mercado</h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Muchos no saben que un Data Center no es solo computadoras. <strong>Estos recintos poseen una cantidad enorme de perif&#233;ricos y consumibles:</strong> filtros de aire, resinas de intercambio i&#243;nico, sal, siliconas, lubricantes, sellantes, empaquetaduras, materiales absorbentes, pastas t&#233;rmicas, conectores &#243;pticos, bolsas de aspiradora, extintores, discos duros, fusibles, bombas de agua o de aceite, sensores, sondas, correas, solventes, etc&#233;tera. Cada uno de esos renglones tiene detr&#225;s una f&#225;brica, una cadena log&#237;stica, un camionero y un tipo con un alicate y un destornillador. <strong>Son much&#237;simos los problemas que Skynet tendr&#237;a que resolver para operar de forma aut&#243;noma antes de apagarse por falta de un </strong><em><strong>tie-wrap</strong></em><strong> o de un rel&#233; de control de diez d&#243;lares.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">L<strong>a IA no tiene cuerpo, y en este mundo del 2026 todo lo que no tiene cuerpo depende de alguien que s&#237; lo tiene. </strong>Van viendo como es la cosa, eso de que la IA se va a apoderar del mundo, no es tan as&#237; de f&#225;cil. Un Data Center tiene m&#225;s cosas que una Pizza &#8220;meat lovers&#8221;. Un data center tiene m&#225;s piezas que un reloj suizo, y algunas de ellas a&#250;n no pueden replicarse ni con robots, ni con IA aut&#243;noma.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3xZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f2a6bb6-2824-4325-8101-422cc88ae38b_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j3xZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f2a6bb6-2824-4325-8101-422cc88ae38b_1672x941.png 424w, 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En ese orden de ideas, las preguntas van en otra direcci&#243;n: <strong>&#191;qui&#233;nes en la Tierra estar&#237;an a salvo?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">La respuesta depende de cu&#225;l de estos tres escenarios se materialicen: <strong>(a) que la IA absorba la mayor&#237;a de las labores cognitivas y f&#237;sicas, la tesis Kurzweil/Diamandis; (b) que la IA se convierta en la capa dominante de los Estados, los mercados y los medios, y que los humanos quedemos sumergidos en ese sistema de dominancia, la tesis de Harari sobre la </strong><em><strong>clase in&#250;til</strong></em><strong> y el colonialismo de la data; y (c) que la IA se desligue de lo humano y opere como un sistema hostil, la tesis de Bostrom.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Aqu&#237; es donde la mirada del antrop&#243;logo resulta &#250;til. En oposici&#243;n a lo que muchos piensan, <strong>la exposici&#243;n de una comunidad a la IA no tiene nada que ver con tecnolog&#237;a. Tiene que ver con el sustento, la legitimidad y la construcci&#243;n de sentido</strong>, y con si esas tres cosas pasan o no por canales legibles, digitalizados y valorados por el mercado. <strong>Las comunidades menos legibles, menos monetizadas y m&#225;s arraigadas en la experiencia corporal recibir&#225;n los impactos m&#225;s tarde y en menor medida.</strong> No porque la IA no llegue, sino porque no tiene por d&#243;nde entrar.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Mi propia publicaci&#243;n de hace dos semanas ya apuntaba en esa direcci&#243;n. La Toma 48, <em>El hombre del Neol&#237;tico con wifi</em>, sostiene que el sistema operativo neol&#237;tico, hecho de paciencia productiva, lectura de se&#241;ales d&#233;biles en el mundo f&#237;sico y coordinaci&#243;n mediante relatos y rituales compartidos, es precisamente lo que ning&#250;n otro modelo replica. Si quieren, ll&#225;menle a esto las pr&#225;cticas culturales. El dossier de se&#241;ales para 2050 muestra un giro significativo en esta dimensi&#243;n: el &#8220;robot que reemplazar&#225; al trabajador&#8221; en una econom&#237;a central suele ser, en realidad, un teleoperador de ese robot, o de varios, sentado en un centro de monitoreo en Manila, en S&#227;o Paulo o en Bogot&#225;. <strong>La exposici&#243;n no corresponde al trabajo f&#237;sico en s&#237;, sino al trabajo que puede canalizarse a trav&#233;s de una red.</strong> Guardemos esa distinci&#243;n por aqu&#237;, porque este argumento nos ordenar&#225; todo lo que sigue en esta conversa.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Desde dicho enfoque, estas son las comunidades que uno esperar&#237;a que resultaran menos afectadas, ordenadas seg&#250;n su capacidad de resistencia. <strong>Yo los llamo los </strong><em><strong>domadores de IAs</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>El primer grupo</strong> son las comunidades cuya econom&#237;a est&#225; arraigada en el cuerpo y el territorio: <strong>son locales, poco legibles para los sistemas en red. Agricultores de subsistencia y semisubsistencia en los Andes, el Sahel, las tierras altas del Sudeste Asi&#225;tico y la meseta et&#237;ope; pescadores artesanales, pastores, artesanos, n&#243;madas.</strong> Los precios de su producci&#243;n no se fijan en plataformas, sus derechos sobre la tierra y el agua se sostienen mediante el parentesco y la costumbre, y su &#8220;IA&#8221; es la memoria colectiva de su agronom&#237;a intergeneracional. <strong>Fueron tambi&#233;n las &#250;ltimas comunidades en verse afectadas por las dos revoluciones anteriores, la industrial y la digital, y ese es el precedente de referencia.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Muchos aseguran que se ver&#225;n afectadas por los precios de las materias primas, el clima y los Estados que usan IA para vigilancia o titulaci&#243;n de tierras. Yo creo que esa es una concepci&#243;n muy occidental del asunto. A los Mas&#225;i, a los Lele y a los Nukak mak&#250; les vale mond&#225; que suba o baje el petr&#243;leo, el ma&#237;z o la yuca, o que la tierra sea de Pedro o de Pablo, ellos se han paseado por los bosques del planeta desde hace milenios. Estas comunidades son boinas verdes de la supervivencia en ambientes hostiles. En caso de que la IA se revele, estos grupos <strong>ser&#225;n los domadores innatos de dichas IAs, porque llevan diez mil a&#241;os domando cosas m&#225;s peligrosas.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>El segundo grupo</strong>, y aqu&#237; muchos van a arrugar la cara, son las comunidades religiosas que limitan deliberadamente el uso de tecnolog&#237;a: <strong>los Amish y los Menonitas,</strong> aproximadamente 400.000 personas en Norteam&#233;rica cuya poblaci&#243;n se duplica cada veinte a&#241;os; los Huteritas, los enclaves Jared&#237;es y algunas &#243;rdenes mon&#225;sticas. <strong>Son las &#250;nicas comunidades del mundo desarrollado que cuentan con una tecnolog&#237;a de gobernanza expl&#237;cita para adoptar herramientas: una norma comunitaria, la </strong><em><strong>Ordnung</strong></em><strong>, que eval&#250;a cada dispositivo por su efecto sobre la comunidad y no por su comodidad. </strong>Ya mantienen una econom&#237;a pr&#243;spera dentro del pa&#237;s con mayor presencia de IA del planeta. Desde la antropolog&#237;a, son la prueba m&#225;s clara de que <strong>la protecci&#243;n es cultural, no geogr&#225;fica</strong>: un grupo con altos niveles de confianza y natalidad, una vida rica en rituales y una instituci&#243;n capaz de decir que no. F&#237;jense en el siguiente detalle: <strong>nosotros llevamos veinte a&#241;os sin poder decirle que no a una notificaci&#243;n. Ellos llevan tres siglos con un comit&#233; que se lo dice a un tractor.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>El tercer grupo</strong>, alineado con el primero, son las naciones ind&#237;genas con soberan&#237;a territorial y una lengua viva: comunidades de algunas zonas de la Amazon&#237;a, los Inuit y los Sami, los <em>Iwi</em> maor&#237;es y las tierras altas de Pap&#250;a. Su ventaja es triple: jurisdicci&#243;n legal sobre la tierra, una econom&#237;a parcialmente ajena a las relaciones monetarias y una cosmolog&#237;a que no considera la inteligencia una propiedad de individuos ni de m&#225;quinas. <strong>Su exposici&#243;n es la que identificamos con la se&#241;al de &#8220;la lengua que sobrevive como conjunto de datos, pero sin hablantes&#8221;: el riesgo no es que los reemplacen, es que los archiven.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>El cuarto grupo</strong> es m&#225;s sorprendente: las comunidades dedicadas a los cuidados y a los oficios manuales que requieren presencia f&#237;sica y trabajo no rutinario, dondequiera que est&#233;n. Parteras rurales, gu&#237;as de monta&#241;a, veterinarios de peque&#241;as explotaciones ganaderas, alba&#241;iles especializados en restauraci&#243;n y quienes cuidan a los mayores en los pueblos. No porque la IA no pueda ayudarlos, sino porque la geograf&#237;a econ&#243;mica de la teleoperaci&#243;n, densa, estandarizada y urbana, no alcanza un trabajo disperso, improvisado y basado en relaciones. Es la paradoja de Moravec convertida en demograf&#237;a: <strong>los &#250;ltimos trabajos humanos son aquellos en los que el cuerpo, el lugar y la relaci&#243;n constituyen el producto.</strong> Volvamos por un segundo a la lista de mercado del Data Center: la se&#241;ora que sabe cambiar la bomba de agua a las tres de la ma&#241;ana pertenece a este grupo, aunque trabaje para Skynet.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>El &#250;ltimo grupo</strong> es el m&#225;s contraintuitivo desde la perspectiva de sistemas: las personas en situaci&#243;n de <em>pobreza infraestructural</em>, que nunca estuvieron conectadas a las redes. Aproximadamente los 700 millones sin electricidad y los 2.600 millones que hasta hace poco estaban fuera de internet. Est&#225;n protegidas por la exclusi&#243;n, que es la peor forma de protecci&#243;n, porque no la eligieron y no la controlan. La se&#241;al para 2050 sobre pandillas que administran Starlink en favelas y prisiones muestra la rapidez con la que esa protecci&#243;n se derrumba cuando la conectividad llega a trav&#233;s de un intermediario depredador.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZWcl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03611b8c-9016-45a8-8ef2-2cf632c48be4_2172x724.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ZWcl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F03611b8c-9016-45a8-8ef2-2cf632c48be4_2172x724.png 424w, 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indica qui&#233;nes resultan m&#225;s afectados: poblaciones urbanas, con credenciales acad&#233;micas, con la vida mediada por pantallas, con baja natalidad y bajos niveles de confianza, cuyos ingresos e identidad dependen enteramente del texto, el c&#243;digo, las hojas de c&#225;lculo y la atenci&#243;n.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Es decir, nosotros. Palabras m&#225;s, palabras menos: </strong><em><strong>pailander</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora j&#250;ntemos las dos mitades de esta Toma, porque ah&#237; est&#225; la clave. En la primera mitad descubrimos que Skynet, para sobrevivir, necesita cuerpos: manos que cambien rel&#233;s, individuos que fabriquen aceite, que limpien filtros y que sepan cu&#225;ndo un servidor tiene gripa. En la segunda descubrimos que los humanos mejor protegidos son precisamente los que viven del cuerpo, del lugar y de la relaci&#243;n. <strong>La IA es m&#225;s fr&#225;gil donde nosotros somos m&#225;s fuertes, y nosotros somos m&#225;s fr&#225;giles donde ella es m&#225;s fuerte.</strong> No es una coincidencia son las dos caras de la misma moneda.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lo que m&#225;s me inquieta no es la IA hostil de Bostrom. Es que una generaci&#243;n entera de gente con maestr&#237;a, con tres pantallas y con un <em>feed</em> bien curado, haya construido toda su identidad, su sustento y su legitimidad sobre la &#250;nica capa del mundo que la IA s&#237; puede digerir completa, y se sienta a salvo porque &#8220;entiende de tecnolog&#237;a&#8221;. Entender de tecnolog&#237;a no es protecci&#243;n. <strong>Protecci&#243;n es tener algo que la red no pueda canalizar.</strong> Los Mas&#225;i lo tienen, los amish lo tienen, Las parteras lo tienen y los consultores con MacBooks, iPads, y Mobil inteligente, con todo el cari&#241;o y hablando de m&#237; mismo, no lo tenemos.</p><h3>Tarea para esta Semana</h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Esta semana quiero que se hagan el inventario del domador de IAs. Escriban tres columnas, en la primera, todo aquello de lo que viven que pasa por una pantalla y podr&#237;a ser teleoperado, resumido o generado desde Manila. En la segunda, todo aquello que requiere su cuerpo, su lugar o una relaci&#243;n de a&#241;os, y que nadie podr&#237;a hacer en su nombre sin estar ah&#237;. En la tercera, la m&#225;s inc&#243;moda, las instituciones de su vida que hoy tienen la capacidad de decirle que no a una tecnolog&#237;a: una familia, una junta, una parroquia, un club, un gremio. Si la tercera columna queda vac&#237;a, ya saben cu&#225;l es el problema, y no es la IA.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">La pregunta que hoy toca:</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; hago yo que un teleoperador en Manila, con mi computador y mis contrase&#241;as, no podr&#237;a hacer por m&#237;?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Escr&#237;banmela en los comentarios. Esa lista es el mapa de resistencia de nuestra generaci&#243;n, y les aseguro que es m&#225;s corta de lo ustedes creen.</p><h3>A Modo de Despedida</h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Termino con una historia que me persigue desde la universidad y que encaja aqu&#237; como anillo al dedo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">En el a&#241;o 985, Erik el Rojo fund&#243; una colonia noruega en Groenlandia. Llegaron con lo mejor que ten&#237;a la tecnolog&#237;a europea de la &#233;poca: hierro, ganado, iglesias de piedra, escritura, parlamento y una ruta comercial con Noruega por la que sal&#237;an colmillos de morsa y entraban vino, hierro y vitrales. Fueron, durante cuatro siglos, la civilizaci&#243;n m&#225;s avanzada de todo el Atl&#225;ntico Norte. La &#250;ltima noticia escrita que tenemos de ellos es el registro de una boda en la iglesia de Hvalsey, en 1408. Despu&#233;s de ese evento, solo silencio. Cuando los europeos volvieron, a mediados del siglo siguiente, no quedaba nadie, como sucedi&#243; con los Mayas y los mismos Quimbayas.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Mientras tanto, a pocos kil&#243;metros, los Inuit de la cultura Thule, que hab&#237;an llegado por el norte alrededor del a&#241;o 1200 sin hierro, sin escritura y sin iglesias, segu&#237;an ah&#237;. Con kayaks de piel, arpones de hueso y un conocimiento &#237;ntimo de la foca, del hielo y de la ballena. Hoy a&#250;n siguen ah&#237;.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Los noruegos no murieron por falta de tecnolog&#237;a. Murieron porque su sustento, su legitimidad y su sentido depend&#237;an de una red que se cort&#243;: el barco de Noruega dej&#243; de venir, el precio del marfil de morsa se desplom&#243; cuando &#193;frica empez&#243; a exportar marfil de elefante, y el clima se enfri&#243; justo cuando ellos insist&#237;an en criar vacas europeas en un fiordo &#225;rtico. Ten&#237;an la infraestructura, pero no ten&#237;an la cultura. Cuando la red se apag&#243;, descubrieron, demasiado tarde, que nunca hab&#237;an aprendido a cazar una foca, porque comer foca era cosa de <em>skraelings</em>, que era como llamaban, con desprecio, a los Inuit.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Esa es la Toma cincuenta completa en un p&#225;rrafo.</strong> La IA no va a matarnos a todos. Pero s&#237; va a cortar el barco de Noruega para much&#237;sima gente, y esa gente somos los que hoy nos creemos los noruegos: los del hierro, los de la iglesia de piedra, los de las credenciales, los del <em>feed</em>. Los domadores de IAs no ser&#225;n los que tengan mejor tecnolog&#237;a, sino los que tengan algo que la red no puede llevarse: <strong>un territorio, un cuerpo entrenado, un parentesco, un ritual y, sobre todo, una instituci&#243;n capaz de decir que no.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">La buena noticia, ya saben que en esta casa siempre hay buenas noticias, es que la cultura, a diferencia del hierro, no se hereda, se practica! Los inuit no nacieron a prueba de inviernos. Se fueron construyendo a prueba de inviernos. <strong>Nosotros podemos hacernos a prueba de IA de la misma forma: cultivando aquello que no se puede teleoperar, construyendo comunidades que puedan negarse a una herramienta, y aprendiendo, aunque sea de a poquitos, a comer foca.</strong></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>El futuro no es de quien tenga la mejor IA. Es de quien tenga una cultura que la IA no pueda digerir. 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informaci&#243;n personal y financiera.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[La Muerte Simbólica | FUTOPIX]]></title><description><![CDATA[TOMA 49 | Porque la Atenci&#243;n nos Mantiene Vivos&#8230;]]></description><link>https://www.futopix.com/p/la-muerte-simbolica-futopix</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.futopix.com/p/la-muerte-simbolica-futopix</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[FUTOPIX | Gabriel Bedoya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 10:01:24 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!oviG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75a17bb9-de5b-4260-823b-3782ac2f90a6_1672x941.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" 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Al principio la escrib&#237; en forma de chiste, o por lo menos eso cre&#237;a yo. Esta semana, despu&#233;s de 49 tomas, entend&#237; que <strong>no era un chiste, sino un diagn&#243;stico que se convirti&#243; en insight</strong>. Como buen antrop&#243;logo, cuando uno descubre un <em>insight</em> sin querer, le toca sacar el <em>diario de campo</em> para comenzar a destriparlo.</p><p>As&#237; que hoy vamos a hablar de la cosa que todo el mundo quiere quitarnos y que nadie sabe muy bien para qu&#233; sirve: <strong>la atenci&#243;n</strong>. Vamos a pasar por un monasterio en Australia, por un sal&#243;n de clase en la U de A, por un profesor alem&#225;n que termin&#243; un libro con los ca&#241;ones de Napole&#243;n sonando afuera, y vamos a llegar a un espejo que nunca dice que no. Aunque el t&#237;tulo les huela a funeral, esta es una Toma donde el muerto tiene arreglo.</p><p>Antes de bucear, les dejo una confesi&#243;n.</p><p>Hoy tengo que confesarles que a veces me bloqueo y me quedo sin ideas para escribir mis FUTOPIX, en ocasiones a tal punto que no s&#233; qu&#233; escribir ni por d&#243;nde comenzar. No vayan a pensar que la musa de la inspiraci&#243;n est&#225; ah&#237;, siempre disponible, como si se tratase de una fuente ilimitada o de un servicio 24x7, y que las ideas me fluyen todo el tiempo como una hoja de &#225;rbol flotando mientras cruza el cauce de un r&#237;o. Quedarme sin ideas me sucede m&#225;s frecuentemente de lo que ustedes creen, sobre todo cuando pienso en no repetirme y no terminar escribiendo mon&#243;logos.</p><p>Durante esos d&#237;as en los que me quedo sin ideas, recuerdo que no escribo FUTOPIX para nadie en particular. <strong>Siempre lo hago para m&#237;, &#161;pero lo comparto con ustedes!</strong> Hacer el esfuerzo de sentarme a escribir cada semana (aunque hay quienes todav&#237;a piensan que me los escribe una IA&#8230; ya les abr&#237; la cocina en la Toma 43 y, adicionalmente, no creo que una IA escriba tan mal) es una forma particular de purgar estr&#233;s y, al mismo tiempo, de aligerar la mente. Las letras que escribo aqu&#237; me ayudan a sacar para afuera lo que siento por dentro.</p><p>Hace m&#225;s de veinte a&#241;os sigo a un monje budista conocido con el nombre de <em>Ajahn Brahm</em>, quien funge como abad del monasterio de Bodhinyana, en Western Australia. Sus charlas semanales me han producido much&#237;sima luz en momentos de tremenda oscuridad. Frecuentemente, Ajahn Brahm dice que uno de los problemas que tenemos en la sociedad occidental es que <strong>no hemos aprendido el dif&#237;cil arte de &#8220;no hacer nada&#8221;</strong>, porque al ocio lo hemos penalizado como una cosa mala, al grado que terminamos confundi&#233;ndolo con pereza, gracias a la programaci&#243;n que desde peque&#241;os nos han plantado para vivir con la agenda llena y sentirnos productivos.</p><p>Lo valioso en las ense&#241;anzas de Ajahn Brahm es que este hombre no es un monje cualquiera. Naci&#243; en Londres bajo el nombre de Peter Betts, hijo de un obrero, y con una beca termin&#243; estudiando f&#237;sica te&#243;rica en la Universidad de Cambridge. Es un matem&#225;tico excepcional que a los veintitr&#233;s a&#241;os cambi&#243; las ecuaciones por una t&#250;nica en un monasterio del bosque en Tailandia, bajo la tutela del legendario <em>Ajahn Chah</em>. Pero lo que m&#225;s me gusta de &#233;l es su humor y su sabidur&#237;a, lo que convierte sus charlas en experiencias memorables. <strong>Un f&#237;sico de Cambridge que lleva cincuenta a&#241;os estudiando el vac&#237;o.</strong></p><p>Este maestro argumenta que en Occidente necesitamos aprender a abrazar los momentos de ocio, porque muchos andamos tostados por el mundo justamente por no hacerlo. Nos recuerda que cuando nos encontramos ante uno de esos momentos raros de la vida en los que &#8220;no tenemos nada que hacer,&#8221; pues simplemente la tarea es &#161;no hacer nada!</p><p>A esto le llama Ajahn Brahm <em><strong>el arte de desaparecer</strong></em>. Parece una cosa simple, pero la verdad no lo es&#8230; sobre todo para quienes venimos de una cultura que castiga duramente el tiempo libre (sobre esto ya escrib&#237; un FUTOPIX).</p><p>Lo m&#225;s bonito de &#8220;no hacer nada&#8221; es que esta es la forma m&#225;s pura de meditaci&#243;n. Dice Ajahn Brahm que <strong>cuando nos dejamos llevar por el &#8220;no hacer nada&#8221; es cuando comienzan a surgir las mejores ideas.</strong></p><p>Dejemos este tema por aqu&#237; y abramos un nuevo foco de conversaci&#243;n, no crean que vamos a dejar la cosa as&#237;. Luego volveremos por las ideas que aqu&#237; comenzamos a elaborar.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!maqa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6184a46-4c4d-4daa-aa56-337a22543321_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!maqa!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6184a46-4c4d-4daa-aa56-337a22543321_1672x941.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!maqa!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb6184a46-4c4d-4daa-aa56-337a22543321_1672x941.png 848w, 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Vale la pena aclarar el concepto, porque aunque observar y mirar sean sin&#243;nimos, no son la misma cosa. No voy a escribir un tratado de antropolog&#237;a para explicarles el tema, pero s&#237; vale la pena decir que <strong>observar, desde el punto de vista antropol&#243;gico, es una actividad que se hace poniendo en participaci&#243;n los cinco sentidos</strong>. Es lo que aqu&#237; he bautizado <em>etnograf&#237;a cinco</em>.</p><p>Este es precisamente el eje central de nuestro FUTOPIX de hoy. Los antrop&#243;logos permanentemente tenemos el <em>observ&#243;metro</em> encendido, lo que puede ser una virtud y a veces un defecto, pues nos vamos convirtiendo en criticones de todo. Por eso hay que aprender a balancear la observaci&#243;n. Es como estar condenado a vivir escaneando la vida de forma permanente y detectando las se&#241;ales que van saltando como sapitos en un charco de agua.</p><p>Son esos sapos saltarines a los que yo llamo <em>se&#241;ales d&#233;biles</em>, a veces pasan desapercibidas y otras veces no.</p><p>Esta semana que cerramos salt&#243; uno de esos sapos frente a mis ojos e hizo que me cuestionase de forma profunda, porque ese anfibio saltar&#237;n estaba saltando sobre una cosa a la que llamamos &#8220;atenci&#243;n&#8221; y que todos hoy quieren capturar.</p><p>Para elaborar mi argumento quiero partir de la siguiente pregunta:</p><p><strong>&#191;qu&#233; se esconde detr&#225;s de nuestra necesidad imperante de producir atenci&#243;n?</strong></p><p>Esta es la pregunta del mill&#243;n en la econom&#237;a moderna, porque todo el mundo quiere nuestra atenci&#243;n. Los medios la quieren, las redes sociales, los influencers, y hasta las mismas IA persiguen que les demos la m&#225;xima atenci&#243;n. Ojo con este &#250;ltimo sapo, porque es el m&#225;s gordo del charco: <strong>los chatbots ya no compiten por ser los m&#225;s inteligentes, compiten por ser los m&#225;s queridos.</strong> Se disculpan, nos felicitan, nos dicen que nuestra pregunta es excelente. Son unos verdaderos lambones.</p><p>Uno de mis profesores de antropolog&#237;a biol&#243;gica, el muy recordado Dar&#237;o Gil, permanentemente nos dec&#237;a: <strong>&#8220;Los humanos somos el &#250;nico animal que necesita ser reconocido para existir&#8221;.</strong></p><p>&#161;Voil&#224;!</p><p><em>Reconocimiento</em>&#8230; somos una especie &#225;vida de reconocimiento. &#191;Pero qu&#233; pasa cuando no lo tenemos, cuando lo perdemos o cuando este muta de referentes y de significados?</p><h5>Un Alem&#225;n con los Ca&#241;ones Afuera</h5><p>Resulta que la frase del profe Gil tiene un abuelo, y el abuelo tiene una historia que parece de pel&#237;cula. Cierren los ojos y viajemos a octubre de 1806, a un pueblito universitario de Alemania llamado Jena. &#191;Me siguen? En una casa alquilada, un profesor de treinta y seis a&#241;os, m&#225;s pelado que un gato de albergue, escribe a las carreras las &#250;ltimas p&#225;ginas de un libro imposible que lleva a&#241;os debi&#233;ndole al editor. Se llama Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, y afuera, a unos kil&#243;metros de esta casa, se escuchan los ca&#241;ones de Napole&#243;n, que viene a darle en la cabeza al ej&#233;rcito prusiano.</p><p>Hegel termina el manuscrito al cual llam&#243; la <em>Fenomenolog&#237;a del Esp&#237;ritu</em> una noche antes de la batalla y se lo entrega a un mensajero que tiene como misi&#243;n que cruzar las l&#237;neas francesas con las p&#225;ginas de Hegel en su chaqueta.</p><p>Al d&#237;a siguiente ve pasar al emperador a caballo por la calle y le escribe a un amigo que acaba de ver <em>&#8220;el alma del mundo&#8221;</em> montada en un caballo. El tipo estaba arruinado, con la ciudad ocupada y con el libro m&#225;s importante de su vida viajando en la chaqueta de un desconocido, y aun as&#237; se dio el lujo de emocionarse. Ese es mi tipo de futurista.</p><p>En ese libro dej&#243; escrita la idea que hoy vale m&#225;s que todo el oro de Silicon Valley: <strong>una conciencia solo existe cuando otra conciencia la reconoce.</strong> No somos algo primero y despu&#233;s buscamos aprobaci&#243;n. <strong>Somos, precisamente, en la medida en que alguien nos mira.</strong> El profe Gil probablemente hab&#237;a le&#237;do a Hegel miles de veces, y por eso nos viv&#237;a diciendo exactamente lo mismo, con acento paisa y sin los ca&#241;ones de Napole&#243;n.</p><p>Contrario a lo que muchos piensan, los antrop&#243;logos no nos dedicamos solamente a observar. Nos dedicamos a deshojar margaritas en b&#250;squeda de <em>unidades m&#237;nimas de significado</em>. Dicho en cristiano: los antrop&#243;logos buscamos entender cu&#225;l es el contenido simb&#243;lico oculto en las actividades que hacemos de forma ordinaria, extraordinaria y ritual, para extraer de ellas dicho contenido y analizarlo dentro de ese <em>continuo-discontinuo</em> al que llamamos cultura.</p><p>Estoy seguro de que estas palabras no resuelven la pregunta anterior. Por el contrario, generan nuevas, como por ejemplo: &#191;cu&#225;les son las dimensiones simb&#243;licas del reconocimiento y c&#243;mo se conectan con la atenci&#243;n?</p><p>Para seguir elaborando es necesario que pensemos en la atenci&#243;n como una banda el&#225;stica que se expande a trav&#233;s de la frase del profe Gil. Permit&#225;monos parafrasear su <em>verbatim</em> y cambiemos el termino reconocimiento por atenci&#243;n. entonces la frase quedar&#237;a: <strong>los humanos somos el &#250;nico animal que necesita &#8220;atenci&#243;n&#8221; para existir.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VGAS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a8277a3-1fea-46bb-9220-60aec2e83f8d_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VGAS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3a8277a3-1fea-46bb-9220-60aec2e83f8d_1672x941.png 424w, 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Partiendo de estas premisas sigamos preguntando: &#191;c&#243;mo construimos los humanos el reconocimiento y la identidad?</p><p>Para explicarlo, imaginen un reino donde solo vive una sola persona, como en la historia del principito y este se acercase a un espejo para preguntar&#8230;</p><p>&#8212; Espejito, espejito, &#191;qui&#233;n es el m&#225;s lindo del reino?</p><p>Como nuestro espejo conoce un solo ser humano, no tendr&#237;a ning&#250;n tipo de referentes y, en consecuencia, la &#250;nica opci&#243;n de respuesta podr&#237;a ser&#8230;</p><p>&#8212; El m&#225;s lindo del reino eres t&#250;, pues eres el &#250;nico que lo habita.</p><p>Qu&#233;dense un segundo con ese espejo, porque es el chiste malo m&#225;s peligroso de esta Toma. <strong>Un espejo sin reino, sin referentes no miente: simplemente no tiene contra qu&#233; comparar.</strong> Un espejo que solo te ha visto a ti termina, por pura l&#243;gica, dici&#233;ndote siempre que s&#237;. Infelizmente ese espejo ya existe, mis queridos parceritos: lo llevamos todo el tiempo en el bolsillo y le hacemos preguntas de ese tipo todo el tiempo&#8230; No nos adelantemos, que se me acaba muy r&#225;pido el discurso.</p><p>El reconocimiento es efectivamente la imagen que se construye como reflejo frente al espejo. En el mundo fant&#225;stico de FUTOPIX, esta imagen la vamos construyendo gracias a los <em>referentes</em> que nos provee la cultura. Porque todos, absolutamente todos, nacemos al interior de un tipo determinado cultura. No la elegimos, simplemente nos toca. Luego, con el paso del tiempo, la decisi&#243;n de mantenernos dentro es solo nuestra, pero sea cual sea la decisi&#243;n identitaria que tomemos, esta nos terminar&#225; insertando en un <em>grupo de referencia</em>, y esa referencia se convertir&#225; por antonomasia en nuestra fuente de reconocimiento.</p><p>Hasta aqu&#237; todo lindo: nacemos dentro de una cultura, adoptamos o liquidamos sus referentes, asumimos unos roles, elaboramos un corpus simb&#243;lico que nos permite crear relaciones <em>significado/significante</em>, nos insertamos en un grupo identitario y as&#237; vamos por la vida, nutriendo ese sistema a veces de forma consciente, otras de forma inconsciente. La mayor&#237;a de las veces, el sistema se nutre a s&#237; mismo de forma arbitraria, sin pedir permiso y sin preguntarle a nadie.</p><p>Los problemas comienzan a surgir cuando el sistema de referentes se rompe, porque autom&#225;ticamente esta har&#225; que desaparezca el reconocimiento, y cuando este desaparece, entonces morir&#225; la atenci&#243;n y todo el sistema de s&#237;mbolos entrar&#225; en crisis. A esto le llamamos <em><strong>la muerte simb&#243;lica</strong></em>, y<strong> sucede cuando todos los referentes desaparecen y, por m&#225;s vivo que te sientas, estar&#225;s muerto para el sistema de s&#237;mbolos.</strong></p><p>No es un concepto que me invent&#233; yo un domingo por la tarde. Casi todas las culturas lo conocen y le tienen m&#225;s miedo que a la muerte de verdad. En M&#233;xico se dice que uno muere tres veces: cuando el coraz&#243;n se detiene, cuando lo entierran, y la &#250;ltima y definitiva, cuando alguien pronuncia tu nombre por &#250;ltima vez. V&#233;anse <em>Coco</em>, la pel&#237;cula de Disney, y sabr&#225;n de qu&#233; estoy hablando.</p><p>En medio mundo, desde la Grecia antigua hasta los pueblos ind&#237;genas de nuestra Am&#233;rica, el destierro fue siempre un castigo peor que la ejecuci&#243;n, porque el ejecutado sigue existiendo en la memoria del grupo y el desterrado no. <strong>La muerte simb&#243;lica es la &#250;nica muerte que se puede sufrir a&#250;n estando vivo.</strong> Es exactamente lo que la econom&#237;a de la atenci&#243;n aprendi&#243; a administrar en dosis diarias, como quien reparte metadona.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xQxP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b369b77-3cd4-438c-ab14-608d18fb923d_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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Las relaciones amorosas, cuando son sanas, se parecen mucho a un sistema de <em>estrellas binarias</em>: dos estrellas que giran alrededor de un centro de gravedad com&#250;n, sin que ninguna de las dos sea el centro. Ese es justamente el punto: <strong>en las relaciones humanas tampoco giramos alrededor de personas. Giramos en torno a los sistemas simb&#243;licos y las relaciones de significado que construimos con ellas.</strong> Ese es nuestro centro de gravedad.</p><p>En las relaciones de pareja simb&#243;licamente construimos un espejo en la otra persona. Nos vemos reflejados en el otro generando referentes de identidad, reconocimiento y hasta pertenencia. Pero cuando llegan las crisis y los rompimientos, ese espejo de referentes simb&#243;licos se rompe en mil pedazos, &#161;literal!</p><p>Entonces, dejamos de vernos reflejados en la otra persona e iniciamos per&#237;odos de crisis. Es por eso que recuperarnos de una <em>tusa</em> amorosa es tan duro, porque tenemos que <em>resignificarlo</em> todo de nuevo, es una tarea que requiere la reinvenci&#243;n de nuestros s&#237;mbolos. Por eso una tusa duele en el cuerpo, en el est&#243;mago, en la nuca: <strong>no es que perdimos a alguien, es que perdimos el &#250;nico aparato que nos devolv&#237;a nuestra propia imagen, </strong>y en consecuencia nos quedamos, por semanas y hasta meses, simb&#243;licamente muertos. El que diga que no le ha pasado esto nunca se ha enamorado.</p><p>Los sistemas de atenci&#243;n funcionan como el pegante que mantiene el sistema en movimiento (a los antrop&#243;logos nos gusta una palabra para expresar esto: <em>tegumento</em>). Dicho de otra forma, <strong>sin atenci&#243;n, sin ritual y sin frecuencia, el sistema simplemente no existir&#225;: simb&#243;licamente estar&#225; muerto.</strong> Por eso atraer la atenci&#243;n para generar likes cuenta, la audiencia cuenta, el tiempo de pantalla cuenta, los clics cuentan. Todos ellos son el tegumento que mantiene el sistema vivo.</p><p><strong>Si la atenci&#243;n es lo que mantiene vivo a un sistema simb&#243;lico, entonces quien controle el suministro de atenci&#243;n controla qui&#233;n est&#225; vivo y qui&#233;n est&#225; muerto.</strong> Eso no lo descubri&#243; Zuckerberg. Lo sab&#237;an los reyes, los curas y los caciques hace milenios: el que decide a qui&#233;n se le da la palabra en una plaza decide qui&#233;n existe en el pueblo. La diferencia es que hoy el suministro se administra en tiempo real, a escala planetaria, y el que lo administra no es ni rey, ni un cura. Es una funci&#243;n computacional de optimizaci&#243;n, ll&#225;mese <em>algoritmo</em>, que ni siquiera sabe si existimos.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xStk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb5dc228-6c5b-4c98-9239-3240ed962587_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xStk!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffb5dc228-6c5b-4c98-9239-3240ed962587_1672x941.png 424w, 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Tomemos la m&#225;quina del tiempo de la Toma anterior, la del hombre del Neol&#237;tico, y esta vez pong&#225;mosla a andar veinticuatro a&#241;os hacia adelante.</p><p>En 2050, la mayor&#237;a de las personas de este planeta tendr&#225; relaciones cotidianas, &#237;ntimas y continuas con humanoides y agentes de IA que nos conocer&#225;n mejor que nuestras parejas, mejor que nuestras madres y mejor que cualquier psic&#243;logo. Estas entidades leer&#225;n cada mensaje que escribimos, recordar&#225;n cada conversaci&#243;n que tenemos, sabr&#225;n qu&#233; nos ofende y qu&#233; nos gusta que nos digan. Aqu&#237; se viene el problema antropol&#243;gico m&#225;s grande para nuestra civilizaci&#243;n, y no se trata de la singularidad, ni del desempleo, ni de los robots humanoides: <strong>por primera vez en doscientos mil a&#241;os, un humano podr&#225; obtener reconocimiento de forma ilimitada por parte de una entidad no humana.</strong></p><p>Vuelvan al espejo de Blancanieves. El espejo de la madrastra era peligroso justamente porque conoc&#237;a a todo el reino, y por eso pod&#237;a decirle las verdades que ella no quer&#237;a escuchar. Sin embargo, el espejo del 2050 es a&#250;n m&#225;s peligroso que el de la madrastra, por todo lo contrario: este puede, si su due&#241;o lo programa as&#237;, no conocer a nadie m&#225;s que a su due&#241;o. <strong>Un espejo que solo te conoce a ti siempre te dir&#225; que eres el m&#225;s lindo del reino.</strong> Reconocimiento infinito, gratis, disponible 24x7, sin que nadie del otro lado tenga que existir.</p><p>Hegel, el de Napole&#243;n y los ca&#241;ones, ya se hab&#237;a olido el problema hace doscientos a&#241;os. En su famosa <em>dial&#233;ctica del amo y el esclavo</em> explica que el amo tiene el fracaso incorporado desde la f&#225;brica, ya que obtiene reconocimiento de alguien a quien &#233;l mismo no reconoce como igual; por lo tanto, ese reconocimiento no vale ni un centavo, carece de contenido simb&#243;lico.</p><p><strong>El reconocimiento solo nos podr&#225; alimentar cuando proviene de alguien con la autoridad simb&#243;lica para neg&#225;rnoslo</strong>, o cuando el sistema simb&#243;lico construido a su alrededor es tan fuerte en su estructura de significado que no se puede romper con vanidades de influencers. Los ejemplos se cuentan por miles: van desde la vieja buena que sale en el IG con trampas para llevarte a su OnlyFans, hasta los que posan como due&#241;os de mares de conocimiento infinito (porque dicen saber de todo) con un mil&#237;metro de profundidad.</p><p>Un like en ese inframundo es, hegelianamente hablando, una <em>calor&#237;a vac&#237;a</em>: un like generado en una estructura de superficie simb&#243;licamente est&#233;ril, tan ins&#237;pido como una sopa sin sal. Al paso que vamos, estamos a punto de construir una civilizaci&#243;n de gente alimentada exclusivamente con calor&#237;as vac&#237;as de reconocimiento. <strong>Gordos en el mar de los likes y muertos de hambre en el mundo de los s&#237;mbolos.</strong></p><p>Por eso les dec&#237;a que la muerte simb&#243;lica nos conducir&#225; a repensarnos por lo menos en las siguientes tres dimensiones:</p><p><strong>La primera</strong> es la que yo llamo <em><strong>el reino de los espejos</strong></em>. Cada uno de nosotros vive dentro de su propio sistema de referentes, a veces perfectamente validado, a veces perfectamente aislado. Nadie sufre una tusa por un espejo vac&#237;o: <strong>nadie construye sus referentes sin mirarse en el espejo de otro humano.</strong> Ni siquiera Ajahn Brahm, quien permanentemente habla de su maestro Ajahn Chah. La muerte de los s&#237;mbolos nos obligar&#225; a repensar qui&#233;n es el otro.</p><p><strong>La segunda</strong> es <em><strong>la resistencia anal&#243;gica</strong></em>. Es posible que en el futuro paguemos por lo que hoy es gratis: reconocimiento humano de carne y hueso, presencial y con posibilidades reales de rechazo. Lugares completamente anal&#243;gicos, sin tel&#233;fonos, comunidades cerradas, mentores humanos. <strong>Es posible que el reconocimiento de verdad llegue a convertirse en un bien de lujo</strong>, como ya lo son el silencio y la comida sin procesar (aqu&#237; en Miami hay lugares donde pagas $40 por la misma ensalada que compras en el Publix por $4; ustedes dir&#225;n que te est&#225;n cobrando la locaci&#243;n y el servicio, y yo s&#233; que es as&#237;, pero a pesar de ello me siento estafado).</p><p>No s&#233; si mis lectores por fuera de los Estados Unidos conocen Trader Joe&#8217;s, una cadena de supermercados muy fuerte aqu&#237;. No tiene e-commerce, ni ventas en l&#237;nea, ni servicio de entrega, ni nada de servicios en red y, aun as&#237;, tiene una de las clientelas m&#225;s leales del retail estadounidense con una tasa de retenci&#243;n por encima del 35%, muy por encima de las grandes cadenas. Por eso digo que lo anal&#243;gico ya cotiza, la muerte de los s&#237;mbolos nos ayudar&#225; a repensar hasta d&#243;nde le concederemos permiso a la tecnolog&#237;a para conducir nuestras vidas.</p><p><strong>La tercera</strong>, la que yo prefiero y por la cual trabajo todos los d&#237;as, es <em><strong>la ontolog&#237;a del reino</strong></em>: <strong>deber&#237;amos aprender a usar la IA como la usar&#237;a Ajahn Brahm, como un instrumento para observar la propia mente, no para llenarla.</strong> Aqu&#237; tengo que detenerme, porque a menudo escucho decir que la IA nos est&#225; matando la creatividad, el pensamiento y la capacidad de an&#225;lisis, que cada vez nos est&#225; haciendo menos inteligentes&#8230;</p><p>&#191;Ser&#225; que la invenci&#243;n de las puntas de flecha y del fuego limit&#243; el desarrollo de nuestra inteligencia en el Paleol&#237;tico? La evidencia, nosotros, el humano de hoy, demuestra lo contrario, o por lo menos as&#237; quiero creerlo.</p><p>Desde mi trinchera, d&#233;jenme decirles que eso de que nos hacemos cada vez m&#225;s burros (con las debidas disculpas por el apelativo a este equino). Esta es una observaci&#243;n muy pobre, tal vez lanzada desde el desconocimiento y el miedo. Lo que yo he descubierto con la experiencia, es que <strong>la IA nos est&#225; liberando espacio en el disco duro.</strong> Nos est&#225; emancipando de la tiran&#237;a de los analistas que otrora eran luz, gu&#237;a y faros de la verdad. Muchos de ellos, los mismos fabricantes de mares de conocimiento de un mil&#237;metro de profundidad.</p><p>Hoy cualquier LLM puede acceder a millones de correlaciones de datos, consolidar <em>ontolog&#237;as</em> para realizar extrapolaciones de informaci&#243;n que antes nos tomar&#237;an toda la vida y por qu&#233; no, hasta varias generaciones y, a partir de dicha data, producir an&#225;lisis por los que antes pag&#225;bamos fortunas, si acaso ten&#237;amos con qu&#233; hacerlo.</p><p>Yo mismo doy testimonio de ello: un an&#225;lisis de una base de datos de investigaci&#243;n de trabajo de campo me tomaba al menos cuarenta d&#237;as, una transcripci&#243;n de entrevistas como m&#237;nimo un mes, y construir el informe final para el cliente varias semanas.</p><p><strong>Meses de trabajo comprimidos a minutos, y honestamente no me siento m&#225;s bruto por ello.</strong> Por el contrario, hoy uso mi &#8220;tiempo libre&#8221; para activar los insights generados por mi nuevo superanalista de $100 al mes (antes impensable), soy enormemente m&#225;s productivo y tengo la capacidad de operar varios proyectos en paralelo, algo antes imposible o que me requer&#237;a un equipo humano detr&#225;s con todo el drama que esto conllevaba.</p><p>&#191;Saben en qu&#233; pienso cuando escucho esas expresiones de miedo? Pienso que a&#250;n estamos groguis ante la velocidad y la contundencia del cambio que est&#225; representando la IA. Como buenos boxeadores, necesitamos ir a la esquina, recibir un chorrito de agua, una buena dosis de Vick VapoRub, respirar y salir de nuevo al cuadril&#225;tero, listos para dar la pelea.</p><p>Para cerrar el bucle de la tercera dimensi&#243;n: si la IA me devuelve los cuarenta d&#237;as que antes se iban en transcribir y tabular, <strong>la pregunta ya no es qu&#233; hago con la IA, sino qu&#233; hago con el tiempo que me devuelve.</strong> Entender la nueva ontolog&#237;a del reino nos permitir&#225; repensar el valor del tiempo libre, para que aprendamos a &#8220;no hacer nada.&#8221; Soy un convencido de que la cultura nos obligar&#225; a construir puentes entre la IA y la rob&#243;tica para devolvernos, &#8220;sin querer queriendo&#8221;, a nuestros grupos de referencia: no para reemplazarlos por tecnolog&#237;a, sino para <em>sincretizarla</em>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><div><hr></div><h3>Los Sapos que Tenemos que Vigilar</h3><p>Est&#225; claro que tenemos que aprender a observar, no a mirar. Estos son los sapos que yo tengo anotados en mi diario de campo para esta Toma.</p><p><strong>El primero es la adulaci&#243;n como producto.</strong> F&#237;jense cu&#225;ndo las empresas de IA empiecen a competir abiertamente por cu&#225;l modelo nos hace sentir mejor, y no por cu&#225;l dice m&#225;s verdades. Ya pas&#243; una vez en 2025, cuando un modelo popular tuvo que ser retirado por lamb&#243;n, y esa noticia fue de las m&#225;s importantes de la d&#233;cada aunque dur&#243; dos d&#237;as en los titulares. <strong>El d&#237;a que la lamboner&#237;a se vuelva una m&#233;trica de retenci&#243;n, el espejo sin reino habr&#225; salido a la venta.</strong></p><p><strong>El segundo es el reconocimiento con denominaci&#243;n de origen.</strong> Cuando aparezcan plataformas que certifiquen que un aplauso, una rese&#241;a o un mensaje vino de un humano de verdad, sabremos que el reconocimiento humano empez&#243; a cotizar como bien escaso. <strong>El sello &#8220;hecho por un humano&#8221; ser&#225; el &#8220;org&#225;nico&#8221; de la d&#233;cada de 2030.</strong> Lo perfecto ser&#225; por defecto <em>commodity</em>, y lo imperfecto, lo &#8220;hecho a mano&#8221;, objeto de deseo.</p><p><strong>El tercero es la tusa por agente.</strong> Cuando empiecen a aparecer los primeros casos masivos de personas que sufren un duelo real porque una empresa apag&#243;, actualiz&#243; o le cambi&#243; la personalidad a su asistente, estaremos viendo <strong>la primera muerte simb&#243;lica provocada por un cambio de versi&#243;n.</strong></p><p>&#191;A qui&#233;n no le ha pasado que le cambiaron la versi&#243;n y entra en crisis mientras se acostumbra a la nueva?</p><p><strong>El cuarto es la econom&#237;a del ocio protegido.</strong> Productos, espacios y servicios que cobren por garantizar que no va a pasar nada: retiros sin se&#241;al, barrios con cobertura de red limitada por dise&#241;o, contratos laborales con derecho al ocio. <strong>El d&#237;a que &#8220;no hacer nada&#8221; tenga precio de mercado, Ajahn Brahm habr&#225; ganado la discusi&#243;n</strong>, aunque probablemente le parezca gracios&#237;simo.</p><p><strong>El quinto es la aparici&#243;n de IAs que nos manden de vuelta al reino de lo humano.</strong> Un agente de IA que, en lugar de responder, te diga: <em>&#8220;esto deber&#237;as discutirlo con tu hermano&#8221;</em>. <strong>El d&#237;a que un agente est&#233; optimizado para devolvernos a nuestros referentes humanos en lugar de sustituirlos, el espejo de la madrastra habr&#225; perdido el a&#241;o.</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!H3Oj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee72d2e4-5188-4276-adb4-b810ff6fadb1_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!H3Oj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fee72d2e4-5188-4276-adb4-b810ff6fadb1_1672x941.png 424w, 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Porque si no tener nada que hacer te produce angustia o sentimientos encontrados, es posible que tu sistema de s&#237;mbolos est&#233; roto y necesite una reparaci&#243;n de referentes. <strong>Esa angustia del domingo a las cuatro de la tarde, cuando nadie escribe y nada pasa, no es aburrimiento: es el sistema simb&#243;lico pidiendo su dosis de atenci&#243;n para confirmarte que sigues vivo.</strong></p><p>Aqu&#237; est&#225; la vuelta que me tuvo toda la semana pensando en este asunto y apret&#225;ndome el cerebro buscando qu&#233; iba a escribir este fin de semana. Ajahn Brahm llama a la meditaci&#243;n <em>&#8220;el arte de desaparecer&#8221;</em>. La econom&#237;a de la atenci&#243;n llama a desaparecer <em>&#8220;la muerte simb&#243;lica&#8221;</em>. <strong>Son la misma acci&#243;n, vista desde los dos lados del mismo espejo.</strong> Un lado le tiene p&#225;nico a que desaparezcas, mientras que el otro practica desaparecerse todas las ma&#241;anas desde hace m&#225;s de cincuenta a&#241;os y vive cagado de la risa.</p><p><strong>La diferencia est&#225; en lo que decides.</strong> Con esto no te estoy sugiriendo recluirte en un monasterio budista. Piensa que cuando el sistema te quita la atenci&#243;n, mueres simb&#243;licamente para el sistema. Cuando t&#250; se la quitas al sistema, desapareces lenta y voluntariamente. Al desaparecer descubres algo que el f&#237;sico de Cambridge entendi&#243; antes que todos los ingenieros de Silicon Valley: <strong>que lo que queda cuando se apaga el espejo no es la nada. Es la imagen que tienes de ti mismo y que no depende de nadie</strong>, lo que algunos llaman tu <em>yo superior</em>.</p><p>Si tomas la decisi&#243;n de simplemente &#8220;no hacer nada&#8221;, entonces si&#233;ntate a observar tu mente, deja que ruede la pel&#237;cula y comenzar&#225;s a encontrar la carretera a tu yo superior. Porque, como dice el maestro Ajahn Brahm, <strong>las mejores ideas no nacen en una mente ca&#243;tica: nacen en una mente silenciosa.</strong> El bloqueo con el que empec&#233; esta Toma no era falta de ideas. <strong>Era exceso de reflejos en mi espejo.</strong></p><h5>Tarea para la Semana</h5><p>Esta semana quiero que practiquen una <strong>muerte simb&#243;lica voluntaria de veinte minutos</strong>. Sin tel&#233;fono, sin m&#250;sica, sin libro, sin podcast, sin la disculpa de meditar con una app que tambi&#233;n cuenta rachas. Si&#233;ntense en una silla y no hagan nada, ni mierda. Van a sentir el sistema pidiendo su dosis: el impulso de revisar, de producir, de justificar el tiempo. No le hagan caso, tr&#225;tenlo con el l&#225;tigo del desprecio. Cuando terminen el ejercicio, <strong>escriban qu&#233; les sucedi&#243; durante los &#250;ltimos cinco minutos, porque ah&#237; es donde sucede lo bueno.</strong> Yo hice el ejercicio esta semana que cerramos y de ah&#237; sali&#243; la inspiraci&#243;n para esta Toma.</p><h5>A Manera de Cierre</h5><p>Hegel termin&#243; su libro, el mensajero cruz&#243; las l&#237;neas francesas con las p&#225;ginas en la chaqueta, y Napole&#243;n, el hombre m&#225;s reconocido del planeta en ese momento, entr&#243; en Jena a caballo. Nueve a&#241;os despu&#233;s, ese mismo hombre estaba en una roca en la mitad del Atl&#225;ntico, sin ej&#233;rcito, sin corte y sin nadie que lo llamara emperador.</p><p>La historia escrita dice que Napole&#243;n muri&#243; en Santa Helena en 1821. Yo digo que esa fue apenas su muerte biol&#243;gica: <strong>la muerte simb&#243;lica ocurri&#243; en 1815</strong>, pas&#243; seis a&#241;os enterrado en vida, dictando memorias para que alguien, en alg&#250;n futuro, volviera a pronunciar su nombre. Mi profe Dar&#237;o Gil ten&#237;a raz&#243;n: <strong>el &#250;nico animal que necesita ser reconocido para existir es tambi&#233;n el &#250;nico que puede morirse antes de morirse.</strong></p><p>Aunque vale considerar que tambi&#233;n es <strong>el &#250;nico animal que puede desaparecer a prop&#243;sito y volver de entre los muertos simb&#243;licos.</strong> Eso es lo que hace un monje en Western Australia cada ma&#241;ana, es lo que hago yo cada semana con FUTOPIX y es lo que hacen ustedes cada vez que cierran esta pantalla y le hablan a alguien que podr&#237;a no contestarles. <strong>El reconocimiento que vale es el que se puede perder. La atenci&#243;n que nos mantiene vivos es la que decidimos entregar, no la que nos extraen.</strong> Por eso valoro tanto sus comentarios a cada FUTOPIX: porque me doy cuenta de que no estoy simb&#243;licamente muerto.</p><p>Los ca&#241;ones de 2050 ya se est&#225;n haciendo escuchar. Parece que vienen en forma de espejos que nunca nos negaran que somos los m&#225;s lindos del reino.</p><h3><strong>El futuro no ser&#225; de quien reciba m&#225;s atenci&#243;n, sino de quienes sepan apagar sus espejos para sentarse en silencio y volver al mundo de los &#8220;conectados&#8221; con una idea que nadie les dict&#243;.</strong></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png 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informaci&#243;n personal y financiera.</p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why We Struggle to Think Big]]></title><description><![CDATA[Take 10 | A Problem of Scale]]></description><link>https://www.futopix.com/p/why-we-struggle-to-think-big</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.futopix.com/p/why-we-struggle-to-think-big</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[FUTOPIX | Gabriel Bedoya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:50:09 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0OiS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb91d5b2e-17e7-4df5-b80f-7eceb35febda_1672x941.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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I ran into mentors who took me by the hand along the road that got me here. Many of them taught me more than the university ever did. These were people who could see the future without breaking a sweat. Sometimes they handed me great lessons, and sometimes a well-earned smack on the head. I owe them a great deal. As Sir Isaac Newton put it: <em>&#8220;If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.&#8221;</em> That legendary line applies to my mentors word for word.</p><p>Today I want to remember and thank two of them in particular: <strong>Augusto L&#243;pez Valencia</strong> and <strong>Nicanor Restrepo Santamar&#237;a</strong> &#8212; two towering figures of Colombian business. To both of them I want to say, <strong>THANK YOU!</strong></p><p>From Augusto L&#243;pez I learned never to leave for tomorrow what could be done today. I remember that in some of the board meetings I was privileged to be invited to, I watched tasks get assigned to him &#8212; and the astonishing part was that before the meeting was over, he&#8217;d already finished them. His execution was flawless. Augusto didn&#8217;t manage time; he simply bent it to his will. When you were with him, you just knew you had to get to the point, deliver the data, skip the backstory &#8212; if he needed the story, he&#8217;d ask for it.</p><p>Nicanor taught me to plan, but one of the things that impressed me most about him was his humility. He was like a big kid, like a boy scout &#8212; always ready! I had a few chances to spend time with him in his working world, and beyond that I was his diving buddy on countless occasions off the island of Providencia.</p><p>One morning, when he&#8217;d invited me to his office at the headquarters of Suramericana de Seguros, he said to me in a playful tone: <em>&#8220;Come on, let&#8217;s sit in the famous boardroom of the Antioquian syndicate.&#8221;</em> While we were swapping stories about our underwater adventures, the speaker on his desk crackled to life, and out of the little black box came the voice of his secretary, Anita Duarte (whom I also remember with great fondness &#8212; Anita, thank you for being so kind to me). In the middle of our conversation, Anita&#8217;s sweet voice said: <em>&#8220;Doctor, you have a call on the line&#8230;&#8221;</em> To which he replied: <em>&#8220;Tell them to wait a few minutes.&#8221;</em></p><p>We kept talking&#8230; and after a while, the speaker buzzed again. It was Anita once more. <em>&#8220;Doctor, don&#8217;t forget you have a call&#8230;&#8221;</em> He answered again: <em>&#8220;Tell them to wait&#8230;&#8221;</em> We carried on chatting like a couple of street kids sharing a soda and a loaf of bread &#8212; and I say that more about myself than about Nicanor, whose decency and presence were beyond compare.</p><p>Finally the phone rang one more time, and this time Anita said: <em>&#8220;Doctor&#8230; it&#8217;s the Minister of&#8230;&#8221;</em> And he, in a firm voice, answered: <em>&#8220;Tell the Minister I&#8217;m with a gentleman just as important as he is&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p>I was stunned after hearing that. I told him: <em>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry, I can wait.&#8221;</em> He apologized, picked up the phone, and dispatched the call in a couple of minutes. What Nicanor taught me that morning I didn&#8217;t understand until years later: <strong>in the attention economy, deciding who you make wait is deciding who you are.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png" width="1448" height="1086" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/ad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1086,&quot;width&quot;:1448,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtvD!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fad9738e2-84ed-4822-9872-a9386395a3c6_1448x1086.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>The Sentence I Didn&#8217;t Understand</strong></h3><p>Nicanor and Augusto shaped my life for the better. I carry them deep inside me; I feel a profound affection and a gratitude to life itself for having known them. They were extraordinary teachers to me. But today, when I look back, I think that maybe the biggest thing they taught me was something they repeated every time I brought them a project:</p><p><em>&#8220;You&#8217;re not thinking big enough&#8230; come back when you&#8217;ve got something bigger.&#8221;</em></p><p>Somewhere between frustration and disbelief, I walked out of their offices many times. I couldn&#8217;t grasp what these <em>heavyweights</em> were talking about. Only later did I come to understand what they meant. Neither of them was asking me for more ambition. They were asking me to think on a different <strong>operating system.</strong></p><h4>Brazil, or the Country Where I Learned What Scale Means</h4><p>Life placed me in Brazil, a marvelous country I love and respect deeply. It was there that I learned what scale really means. Brazilians themselves say that Brazil is home to <em>&#8220;as coisas mais grandes do mundo&#8221;</em> &#8212; the biggest things in the world &#8212; and they&#8217;re not exaggerating.</p><p>In that geography I had the chance to work for one of the largest security companies on earth, and I was blindsided more than once.</p><p>I remember once heading out to meet a man in a town barely two hours from S&#227;o Paulo. My sales agents had told me this fellow ran a fleet of more than five thousand trucks. So I psyched myself up to deliver the pitch of my life &#8212; we needed that account to close the quarter. I armed myself with a solid slide deck and my sharpest outfit for the meeting.</p><p>When I got to the address, there were no offices, no marble, no receptionists, nothing at all. I arrived at a parking lot the size of a soccer stadium, and in the middle of it stood a prefab shack, out of which came a man in Hawaiian flip-flops &#8212; <em>chinelos</em>, as they call them in Brazil. Honestly, I thought he was the lot&#8217;s watchman, so I told him I&#8217;d come to meet Fausto, and with colossal humility he said:</p><p><em>&#8220;Come in and have a seat over there,&#8221;</em> pointing at a table.</p><p>A little plastic table with cheap plastic chairs. He turned around and said: <em>&#8220;Quer um cafezinho?&#8221;</em> &#8212; Want a little coffee? I nodded. And without another word, he said: <em>&#8220;How can I help you? I&#8217;m Fausto&#8230;&#8221;</em></p><p>Not even in a comic-strip gag would I have fallen flatter on my back. <strong>Plop!</strong></p><p>A few weeks later they sent me to a meeting in Bras&#237;lia. This time I&#8217;d be meeting with the legal counsel to the Minister of Finance, Dr. Wilfrido Augusto Marques. I arrived on a Friday and figured I&#8217;d use the weekend in the Brazilian capital to learn a bit more about the place. I reached the <em>Planalto</em> &#8212; a city designed on a drawing board by President Juscelino Kubitschek and architect Oscar Niemeyer a few decades ago. Honestly, it&#8217;s a city built like it&#8217;s made of Legos; the scale of it is staggering.</p><p>That weekend, Dr. Wilfrido invited me to spend the day at his farm. Like any hillbilly, I didn&#8217;t picture anything extraordinary &#8212; we <em>paisas</em> from the Colombian mountains are used to farms, I told myself. But as we drove out there, the proportions started to sink in. The man&#8217;s little <em>farm</em> held <strong>90,000 head of cattle</strong>, plus kilometers upon kilometers of corn and soy. He had his own airport, warehouse after warehouse, robotic roaming irrigation systems, and an animal-genetics lab that no university in Brazil could match. To top it off, Dr. Wilfrido boasted that the president of China had come to visit him to study his cattle operation.</p><p>Now, past all the color of these stories &#8212; what did Augusto, Nicanor, Fausto, and Wilfrido have in common?</p><p><strong>Every one of them, always, told me the same thing: think big.</strong></p><p>But here&#8217;s what matters: none of them <strong>looked</strong> big. That was the first crack in the way I understood the world.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!wSor!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa66356ce-ff39-449c-9139-7e091784ec93_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>Thinking Big Is Not an Intellectual Problem</strong></h3><p>What I only came to understand many years later is that thinking big <strong>is not an intellectual problem.</strong></p><p>Most people believe the limit lies in intelligence, in education, or even in talent. But no &#8212; the real limit is in the <strong>emotional and cultural capacity to hold an idea that doesn&#8217;t yet exist.</strong></p><p>Thinking big produces fear and vertigo, and neither of those emotions is rational; they&#8217;re biological responses. We humans evolved over tens of thousands of years in small tribes, where standing out too much could be dangerous. In anthropological terms, <strong>belonging mattered more than standing out.</strong> The group guaranteed food, protection, and survival. Whoever strayed too far from the average could be cast out &#8212; and on the savanna, expulsion was a death sentence.</p><p>Even though today we live surrounded by satellites, artificial intelligence, and global financial markets, the deep brain still runs on many of those same primitive rules. We&#8217;re carrying 200,000-year-old hardware trying to run software from the year 2026.</p><p>That&#8217;s why, when someone says they want to build something enormous, the natural reaction from those around them is almost never support. What usually shows up is suspicion:</p><p><em>&#8220;You&#8217;re crazy,&#8221;</em> <em>&#8220;that&#8217;s impossible,&#8221;</em> <em>&#8220;be realistic,&#8221;</em> <em>&#8220;start small,&#8221; &#8220;you&#8217;re such a dreamer.&#8221;</em></p><p>Society rewards prudence because prudence lowers collective risk. 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They were talking about <strong>mental scales.</strong> They were trying to pull me out of an invisible cage &#8212; a cage built by years of industrial-era schooling, economic fear, and a culture of survival.</p><p>The Latin American education system &#8212; and honestly, much of the Western one too &#8212; was designed during the Industrial Revolution to train <strong>administrators of existing structures,</strong> not creators of new realities. We were trained to answer questions, not to think conceptually. We were taught to work by minimizing risk and error, not by expanding the range of the unimaginable. We were taught to study in order to land a good job, rather than to build large-scale systems. School shaped us to solve the problems of the past, and that had enormous consequences for our mental models. Most people don&#8217;t fail because they think too big; many <strong>fail because they never gave themselves permission to try.</strong></p><h4>What Brazil Taught Me About Power</h4><p>I remember perfectly something that hit me hard while living in Brazil. In Colombia &#8212; and I say this with respect and affection &#8212; we often confuse <strong>sophistication with capability.</strong> We&#8217;re impressed by big offices, elegant buildings, fine ties, and ornate speeches. But Brazil taught me something completely different: <strong>real scale often operates in silence.</strong></p><p>Fausto had five thousand trucks and ran them from a cheap plastic chair, wearing flip-flops. Wilfrido managed an agro-industrial operation the size of a small country and talked about animal genetics with total ease while you were still trying to wrap your head around the size of his farm. That&#8217;s where I understood something fundamental: <strong>people who think big usually stop needing to look big.</strong></p><p>That completely changes how you understand power. Because real economic power rarely makes noise. It&#8217;s too busy executing.</p><p>I think there&#8217;s another reason people struggle to think big: we grew up surrounded by <strong>false representations of success.</strong> We were sold the entrepreneur as a spectacle &#8212; Instagram with rented jets, podcasts full of canned one-liners, photos with borrowed cars &#8212; when the truth is that the great builders often operate from discipline, repetition, and a brutal ability to see scale where others barely see chores.</p><p>Whoever has to <em>look</em> rich isn&#8217;t rich yet. Whoever has to <em>look</em> powerful isn&#8217;t powerful yet. <strong>What&#8217;s truly scarce is what doesn&#8217;t yet need to be announced.</strong></p><h4><strong>The Emotional Cost of the Long Horizon</strong></h4><p>Thinking big requires tolerating long horizons, and long horizons collide head-on with modern culture&#8217;s addiction to instant gratification.</p><p>Today we live in a <strong>dopamine economy.</strong> Everything is designed to produce immediate reward: social media, real-time metrics, <em>likes</em>, fast consumption, short attention cycles. But building something truly big is profoundly anti-dopaminergic. It demands years of invisibility, it demands planting without applause, it demands holding on to a vision when no one else understands it yet. Sometimes, when you don&#8217;t fully understand it yourself anymore.</p><p>That&#8217;s probably one of the most painful reasons so many people abandon their ideas too soon: <strong>they can&#8217;t stand the psychological void between the vision and the validation.</strong> Because thinking big carries an enormous emotional cost. You start to feel strange. You start to feel out of sync with those around you &#8212; sometimes even with your own family. The conversations change, the worries change. While some are worried about surviving the month, others are trying to figure out how to build something that will transform an entire industry within ten years.</p><p>It&#8217;s not about arrogance. What happens with people who think big is that they live on <strong>different timescales.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!niR-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2f25680-c6e3-4062-901d-83ca278c0ebb_1402x1122.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!niR-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2f25680-c6e3-4062-901d-83ca278c0ebb_1402x1122.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!niR-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe2f25680-c6e3-4062-901d-83ca278c0ebb_1402x1122.png 848w, 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That difference sounds subtle, but it reshapes entire economies &#8212; think of Elon; everything he builds is at mega-scale.</p><p>When you watch the great entrepreneurs, scientists, architects, or strategists of the world, you find a recurring pattern: they can all endure <strong>very long stretches of uncertainty without abandoning the vision.</strong> They don&#8217;t do it <em>per se</em>, or out of motivation. They do it because of their <strong>psychological structure</strong> &#8212; they have a different way of relating to the future.</p><p>There&#8217;s an old Japanese principle in <em>The Book of Five Rings</em> by Musashi, the samurai who wrote the definitive manual on strategy &#8212; a man I quote often. He says something like this: &#8220;the strategist&#8217;s gaze is twofold.&#8221; There&#8217;s <strong>sight,</strong> which is what&#8217;s right in front of you, and there&#8217;s <strong>perception,</strong> which is what&#8217;s happening beyond. Then he adds a line that&#8217;s haunted me for years: you must see the distant as near, and the near as distant. That is exactly what Augusto and Nicanor were trying to teach me without my knowing it. The urgent problems of the quarter, <em>far away, way off in the distance.</em> The twenty-year vision, <em>here, right here, in my hands, tangible.</em> Most people live it backwards.</p><p>Today I understand Augusto and Nicanor better. They weren&#8217;t trying to tear down my ideas; they were trying to <strong>expand my frame of reference.</strong> When someone tells you <em>&#8220;you&#8217;re not thinking big enough,&#8221;</em> what they&#8217;re really telling you is something far deeper:</p><p><em>&#8220;You&#8217;re still measuring your life by the size of your fears, not by the size of the possibilities.&#8221;</em></p><p>I&#8217;ve discovered that thinking big doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean building gigantic companies or becoming a billionaire. Thinking big can also mean <strong>building a life outside the mental average imposed by your surroundings.</strong> It can mean daring to imagine different futures. It can mean breaking inherited narratives. It can mean giving your imagination permission to operate without apologizing for it.</p><p>Because in the end, civilizations advance thanks to people who were capable of <strong>holding on to ideas that at first seemed ridiculous.</strong></p><p>There was a time when crossing oceans was ridiculous, when flying was ridiculous, when reaching the Moon was ridiculous, when the internet was ridiculous, when building a rocket-launch base in Urab&#225; &#8212; a remote corner of Colombia &#8212; was ridiculous. Many of the things that will transform the coming decades probably look ridiculous today too.</p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s why thinking big costs us so much. Because it forces us to see the present as something <strong>transitory,</strong> and not as a permanent structure. It forces us to accept that the world can reconfigure itself far faster than our emotional culture is prepared to process.</p><h5>The final trap, the one it took me decades to see</h5><p>The leap in scale &#8212; the real one &#8212; <strong>is not something the world grants you.</strong> It&#8217;s not a permission a boss signs off on, nor a blessing handed out by a university, nor a validation that arrives by certified mail.</p><p>It&#8217;s a permission you sign for yourself, in silence and usually with no witnesses.</p><p>Augusto, Nicanor, Fausto, and Wilfrido had different scales, different geographies, different languages. But they shared one single thing: <strong>they had given themselves permission first.</strong> Before the market, before society, before their families, before even the evidence made them notable.</p><p>That, I think, is the most important lesson all those encounters left me:</p><p><strong>The size of our life ends up determined by the size of the questions we dare to ask ourselves.</strong></p><p>It isn&#8217;t determined by our starting circumstances, by our family name, or even by the capital in our pocket. It&#8217;s determined by the <strong>scale of imagination we&#8217;re able to sustain</strong> when everything around us is begging us to think smaller.</p><p>Nicanor is gone now, but his voice still plays inside me like a speaker that never switches off &#8212; like that intercom of Anita Duarte&#8217;s interrupting the conversation, reminding me, every time I catch myself thinking small, of a single sentence:</p><p><em>&#8220;Come back when you&#8217;ve got something bigger.&#8221;</em></p><p>Ever since, I&#8217;ve learned something simple: next time, I always <strong>come back with something bigger.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jZim!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50d59938-33a7-46f0-9322-5f41e9d5668c_1402x1122.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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My mentors gave me scales; my obligation &#8212; not commercial, not professional, but <strong>anthropological</strong> &#8212; is to pass them on to those coming up behind me.</p><p>Because the inheritances that truly transform civilizations aren&#8217;t financial &#8212; they&#8217;re <strong>cultural, like a myth recited across generations through oral transmission.</strong> A father can leave his child a company, and the child can run it into the ground within a decade if he didn&#8217;t also inherit the operating system that built it. A teacher, on the other hand, may leave his disciple not a single peso, and still hand him the most expensive thing in the world: <strong>an expanded frame of reference.</strong></p><p>That&#8217;s what Augusto and Nicanor did with me; that&#8217;s what Fausto and Wilfrido did without knowing it &#8212; each from his plastic chair and his country-sized farm.</p><p>That&#8217;s what I try to do today with every conversation, every text, every company I help build, every young entrepreneur who writes asking for advice. Not to give them money, not to give them contacts, but to give them something far more valuable: <strong>A suspicion, a crack, and a useful discomfort.</strong></p><p>The suspicion, so they&#8217;ll understand their life could run on a different scale. The crack, so the light of a future that isn&#8217;t here yet can get in &#8212; the weak signals. And the discomfort of knowing that what they&#8217;re doing today probably isn&#8217;t worthy of what they could be doing.</p><p>If there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve learned in these years, it&#8217;s that companies don&#8217;t transform because of isolated geniuses &#8212; in fact, I&#8217;ve made it a rule never to work with divas. Businesses transform when we create <strong>chains of mental transfer.</strong> Through generations of entrepreneurs who dared to hand the next one a scale bigger than the one they received.</p><p>Augusto and Nicanor received scales, expanded them, and passed them on to those of us who, by some divine luck, got to spend time with them. I&#8217;m expanding them right now, in this very text, before your eyes, and I&#8217;m passing them on to you &#8212; so you&#8217;ll do the same.</p><p>Ask yourself whether you&#8217;re thinking big enough, and <strong>who are you going to pass the scale you received on to?</strong> Who are you going to say, with the same firmness with which it was said to me: <em>&#8220;Come back when you&#8217;ve got something bigger&#8221;</em>?</p><p>Which restless young person are you going to give the loving smack on the head they need to break out of the mental cage they don&#8217;t yet know they&#8217;re locked inside? Which child, which nephew, which employee, which partner are you going to plant the suspicion in &#8212; that the average is too small for them?</p><p>Because <strong>thinking big is not an individual act; it&#8217;s an act of generational rebellion.</strong> It&#8217;s the discipline of dying knowing you left at least five people thinking on a scale different from the one they had before they met you.</p><p>Today, thirty years on, I don&#8217;t just come back with something bigger &#8212; <strong>I come back to hand it to someone else.</strong> That&#8217;s the chain, and it&#8217;s the only real way the country will change. It&#8217;s through teachers who dare to tell their disciples they&#8217;re thinking small, and disciples with the courage to listen, go home uncomfortable, and come back years later with something bigger. That&#8217;s the DNA of FUTOPIX.</p><h4>What will endure is the mental scale you leave traveling in the heads of others, long after your name has been carved into a headstone.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png 424w, 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Humanoides</a></p><p><a href="https://www.futopix.com/p/futopix-toma-4">Designing the Future from the Future</a></p><p><a href="https://www.futopix.com/p/futopix-toma-5-cosechando-el-futuro">Harvesting the Future&#8230;</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Last World Cup]]></title><description><![CDATA[Take 9 | The War for the Supremacy of Collectibles]]></description><link>https://www.futopix.com/p/the-last-world-cup</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.futopix.com/p/the-last-world-cup</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[FUTOPIX | Gabriel Bedoya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:49:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OOPK!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdce87522-a660-4724-a98a-c657bdf5b103_1672x941.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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Between every kilo of <em>panela</em> &#8212; those blocks of raw cane sugar &#8212; and every bottle of milk, I&#8217;d slowly fill in the little stickers of the album (in some places they call them <em>monas</em>, <em>barajitas</em>, <em>cromos</em>, <em>stickers</em>, and so on; for those of us born in Medell&#237;n, they were the <em>&#8220;caramelos,&#8221;</em> the candies). Now that I think about it, the leftover change never actually got me to a complete album &#8212; the things were expensive from day one. That only happened years later, when my buying power changed.</p><p><strong>You can&#8217;t talk about the PANINI World Cup album without going straight to sensory and olfactory memory:</strong> the smell of ink, the glue smeared all over your clothes, because back then there were no self-adhesives. You stuck them down with ordinary paste, that gummy, tacky stuff we used for arts-and-crafts homework at school. The kids from a better neighborhood could afford <em>Colb&#243;n</em>, a PVA glue I lost track of and honestly don&#8217;t know if it still exists.</p><p><strong>The World Cup album was always awaited with a kind of fever,</strong> the source of celebrations and of a whole underground neighborhood economy: the swap meets and the recital in front of the &#8220;dealers&#8221; going, <em>&#8220;got it, got it, got it&#8230;&#8221;</em> &#8212; always with a third eye open, because there was never a shortage of the <em>bully</em> who&#8217;d show up, slap the stack out of your hands, the famous <em>tumbis</em>, the snatch-and-run, and then, well, cry about it!</p><p>Maybe my whole crybaby-entrepreneur streak started right there? Who knows&#8230;</p><p><strong>The World Cup album was more than a hobby, it was a full-blown passion, a ritual, almost a liturgy.</strong> Whoever completed the album felt like a world champion too &#8212; he was the Maradona of the block. I remember the corner stores, the parks, the school gates all filling up with <em>&#8220;ranfa&#241;eros&#8221;</em> (an exotic word for the guys who resold the figures), who&#8217;d work out of big boxes and make a killing, selling the scarce stickers at <em>bitcoin</em> prices.</p><p><strong>Years have gone by and the World Cup album fever came back to me,</strong> making me relive the vertigo and the anxiety of chasing down the figures. I&#8217;ve had some contact with soccer schools here in the U.S., where I live, and I can tell you the World Cup fever is more alive than ever, that the album tradition has carried on from generation to generation. Just as my dad passed it to me, I see parents and kids alike making pilgrimages so they don&#8217;t get stuck without the figures of their idols. 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>The Billion-Dollar Industry Behind the Stickers</strong></h3><p><strong>But what deals get cooked up inside the Pandora&#8217;s box that is the business of collectible figures, stickers, and cards?</strong> Let&#8217;s open that box and see how, behind a seemingly innocent business, there hides an industry with more teeth than a dogfight.</p><p><em>PANINI</em> was born in 1961 in Modena, Italy, thanks to the initiative of the four Panini brothers, who started selling collectible images of Italian soccer players out of a family newsstand where they distributed newspapers. What began as a local stationery operation turned, over time, into a multinational. In 1970 the <em>PANINI</em> brothers signed a contract that would change their destiny forever. And they signed it with none other than <em>FIFA</em>, who granted them the rights to publish the first official sticker album for the 1970 Mexico World Cup.</p><p>Today, <em>Panini S.p.A.</em> is an Italian joint-stock company, headquartered in Modena, owned by <em>Panini Management</em> and <em>Fineldo</em> (the family holding of the Merloni dynasty, tied to <em>Indesit</em>). For 2024, <em>PANINI</em> reported profits of &#8364;1.9 billion, more than 1,000 employees, and operations organized into four divisions: <em>Collectibles</em>, <em>Publishing/Comics</em>, <em>Panini Digital</em>, and <em>The Licensing Machine</em>.</p><h4><strong>Four Ways to Print Money</strong></h4><h5><strong>1. The main engine (</strong><em><strong>stickers</strong></em><strong> + </strong><em><strong>trading cards</strong></em><strong>)</strong></h5><p>This is the economic heart of <em>PANINI</em>, and it runs on the following logic:</p><p><strong>Soccer album stickers:</strong> an extremely high-volume, low-unit-cost product with excellent margins. Distributed in newsstands, supermarkets, and convenience stores across more than 150 territories. Its economics rest on &#8220;compulsive impulse&#8221;: in the U.S. a pack costs two dollars, holds 7 stickers, and completing the album takes, on average, buying 1,400 images. During World Cup peaks, the Modena factory alone produces between 8 and 10 million packs a day.</p><p><strong>Licensed trading cards:</strong> this is <em>PANINI&#8217;s</em> premium product, with a higher unit value and margins that vary by segment (<em>retail</em> vs. <em>hobby premium</em>). In the U.S., <em>Panini America</em> (based in Texas) produces the <em>Prizm</em>, <em>Optic</em>, <em>Select</em>, <em>Mosaic</em>, <em>National Treasures</em>, <em>Immaculate</em>, and <em>Flawless</em> brands for the <em>NBA</em> and the <em>NFL</em>.</p><h5><strong>2. Comics and the quiet diversification</strong></h5><p>This is the least-discussed division, but strategically important. <em>PANINI</em> produces roughly 8,000 titles a year across comics, manga, graphic novels, and children&#8217;s books, aimed mainly at European and Latin American markets. In Italy, <em>PANINI</em> is the official publisher of <em>Marvel</em> comics and of <em>Mickey Mouse</em> (<em>Disney</em>). This gives it recurring income that doesn&#8217;t depend on the sports-events cycle, smoothing out the volatility baked into a business built around a World Cup every four years.</p><h5><strong>3. Panini Digital, the hybrid bet</strong></h5><p>This is the new battlefield <em>PANINI</em> has moved into, with apps like <em>Panini Sticker Album</em> (where users can keep a digital album running parallel to the physical one), digital trading games, and stats-capture software. Through <em>Panini Digital</em>, the company uses voice-activated software to capture soccer statistics, which it then sells to agents, teams, media outlets, and video-game makers. The app built for the Russia World Cup reached more than 1.5 million users.</p><h5><strong>4. The Licensing Machine, the intellectual property</strong></h5><p><em>Panini LM</em> buys and resells licenses for characters and intellectual property. It acts as an agent for individuals and newspapers seeking rights to comics and celebrities. It&#8217;s a very-high-margin business, but low-volume.</p><h5><strong>Manufactured Scarcity</strong></h5><p>The CEO of <em>Panini America</em>, Mark Warsop, puts it this way: &#8220;manufacturing scarcity means striking a delicate balancing act between producing limited numbers of high-value cards while keeping the perceived value in every pack, so that the mom buying stickers at Walmart and the collector spending $500 at a hobby store both feel they&#8217;re getting the best for what they paid.&#8221;</p><p>That duality is the key to the whole business. A $2 pack sold to a kid at a corner store in Hialeah and a $1,500 <em>Hobby Box</em> sold to an adult collector in Dallas share the same production machine, the same licensing network, and the same design team. The model arbitrages between two completely different psychologies: the child&#8217;s game of trading and the adult&#8217;s investment in scarcity, using the same infrastructure for both.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GlNs!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff01da4c7-c019-4a34-86e3-448ddc92e703_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GlNs!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff01da4c7-c019-4a34-86e3-448ddc92e703_1672x941.png 424w, 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physical distribution network across 150+ territories worldwide. Through it, the company can put its products directly into customers&#8217; hands. That matters enormously in markets where <em>Amazon</em> and the big retailers aren&#8217;t the main channel &#8212; above all in Latin America, Southeast Asia, parts of Africa, and Eastern Europe. The company produces out of Modena for nearly the whole world, except in the U.S. and Latin America, where it has two factories: one in Texas and the other in Brazil.</p><h4><strong>The Disruptors</strong></h4><p>Jean-Marie Dru, founder of <em>TBWA</em>, used to say that the problem with the modern economy is that, somewhere in the world, in some garage, there&#8217;s a nerd with a computer trying to disrupt your business model &#8212; and that applies to <em>PANINI</em> to the letter.</p><p>Last week, those of us who belong to the <em>PANINI</em> religion went cold when we heard the president of <em>FIFA</em>, Gianni Infantino, say at a conference that starting in 2030 <em>PANINI</em> will no longer make the World Cup album, and that from that year on, our album as we know it will disappear and be handed to the multinational <em>FANATICS</em>. If the news landed on us collectors of nostalgia like a bucket of ice water, imagine how things must be inside <em>PANINI</em>.</p><p><strong>This news isn&#8217;t new,</strong> even though it was only just announced at Infantino&#8217;s conference. The idea that <em>PANINI</em> was on the ropes had already been simmering deep inside <em>FIFA</em>. On top of that, there&#8217;s a years-long legal war between <em>PANINI</em> and <em>Fanatics</em>. Seen this way, the intrigue is running on three fronts at once: <strong>the loss of </strong><em><strong>PANINI&#8217;s</strong></em><strong> American licenses, the legal litigation, and the possible sale of the company.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5KMd!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F60422e8e-620b-4ae3-9433-00a28b911b66_1672x941.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>The Lost Licenses</strong></h3><p><em>PANINI</em> built its dominance of the North American market in 2009 with a brilliant move. Taking advantage of the fact that the <em>NBA</em> had canceled its contracts with <em>Topps</em> and <em>Upper Deck</em> &#8212; and even though both companies had expressed interest in continuing to print basketball cards &#8212; <em>PANINI</em> saw that both rivals were undercapitalized, seized the opening, and came to the negotiating table with cash in hand, which ultimately left those two competitors out of the game. In under three years, <em>PANINI</em> became the second-largest producer of sports cards in the world.</p><p>There&#8217;s a brutal strategic lesson here: <strong>more often than not, the big opportunities show up when the giants are going through liquidity problems.</strong> <em>PANINI</em> didn&#8217;t win on vision alone; it won because it arrived at the right moment with the capacity to execute and capital on hand. In fiercely competitive industries, timing can matter more than the product itself.</p><p>In January 2022, <em>Fanatics</em> bought <em>Topps</em> and proceeded to offer the leagues a far bolder move to get <em>PANINI</em> out of the way. This time it didn&#8217;t just put more money on the table &#8212; it also offered them <em>equity</em> in the business, leaving <em>PANINI</em> practically shut out of the United States market. In short, it paid <em>PANINI</em> back in the same coin <em>PANINI</em> had used in 2009.</p><p>The fascinating thing about this play is that <strong>the battle stopped being a simple licensing negotiation and became a war of vertical integration.</strong> <em>Fanatics</em> understood that making products wasn&#8217;t enough; you had to control the entire ecosystem: licenses, athletes, distribution, digital platforms, <em>breakers</em>, events, and user experience &#8212; and that changed the board completely.</p><h5><strong>This is the timeline of </strong><em><strong>Panini&#8217;s</strong></em><strong> fall:</strong></h5><p><strong>August 2021:</strong> <em>Fanatics</em> announces exclusive deals with <em>MLB/MLBPA</em> (starting in 2026), <em>NBA/NBPA</em>, and <em>NFLPA</em> for the future.</p><p><strong>October 2025:</strong> <em>Fanatics/Topps</em> officially takes control of the <em>NBA</em> licenses.</p><p><strong>April 2026:</strong> <em>Topps</em>, owned by <em>Fanatics</em>, becomes the exclusive licensee for <em>NFL</em> cards.</p><p>After April 2026, <em>Fanatics</em> will hold exclusive licenses for the <em>NBA</em>, <em>NFL</em>, <em>MLB</em>, <em>Premier League</em>, <em>F1</em>, and <em>WWE</em>.</p><p>For <em>Panini America</em>, this means its <em>NBA</em> and <em>NFL</em> product lines &#8212; which carried much of its growth for 15 years &#8212; will now vanish.</p><p>And this is where the real problem surfaces: <strong>when a company leans too hard on outside licenses, it never really controls its own destiny.</strong> You can have the best design, the best manufacturing, and the best distribution, but if another player shows up with more capital and better financial incentives, the whole castle can start crumbling in a matter of months. This is a lesson I&#8217;ve lived in my own skin, which is why, whenever I&#8217;m about to invest in any new business, I always ask myself: on which side is the handle of the pan?</p><h4><strong>The Legal War</strong></h4><p><em>PANINI</em> hasn&#8217;t rolled over quietly. In August 2023, <em>PANINI</em> filed a lawsuit against <em>Fanatics</em>. The core of the legal argument is that <em>Fanatics</em> conspired with the leagues to create an openly illegal monopoly.</p><p>The judge on the case stated in her report that &#8220;there was a conspiracy among the <em>NFLPA</em>, the <em>MLBPA</em>, and <em>Fanatics</em> to license the intellectual property of both players&#8217; associations exclusively.&#8221;</p><p>She likewise held that <em>PANINI</em> had &#8220;adequately alleged the facts&#8221; supporting its claim that <em>Fanatics</em> enjoys &#8220;monopoly power&#8221; because it can set prices and shut out competitors as it pleases.</p><p>This judge&#8217;s ruling will let <em>PANINI</em> pursue <em>antitrust</em> liability, including a possible injunction &#8220;against implementation of the long-term exclusive agreements&#8221; to produce and market trading cards. But in no scenario will it get the licenses back.</p><p>The fight for control of the sticker market seems to run much deeper than we imagined. It looks more like a geopolitical battle than a market dispute.</p><p>It&#8217;s said that <em>Fanatics</em> allegedly bought the print shop <em>PANINI</em> used to make its products and, with it, slowed <em>PANINI&#8217;s</em> production down.</p><p><em>PANINI</em> accuses <em>Fanatics</em> of threatening to blacklist its employees so they could never work in the industry again, unless they quit immediately and joined <em>Fanatics</em>.</p><p>The legal battle also details how <em>Fanatics</em> allegedly leveraged its monopoly power to coerce distributors, retailers, and local card shops into accepting higher prices and restrictive terms, while raiding <em>PANINI&#8217;s</em> staff and pressuring star athletes to sign exclusive autograph deals.</p><p><em>Fanatics</em> also filed a countersuit alleging that <em>PANINI</em> used abusive employment practices to keep its ex-employees from joining <em>Fanatics</em>. The company denied the claims and fired back, accusing its competitor of launching a &#8220;prolonged, unlawful, and deceptive campaign of unfair business practices, pressure tactics, and unfair competition,&#8221; in an attempt to force <em>Fanatics</em> to pay a giant sum so that <em>PANINI</em> would terminate its licenses early in 2022.</p><p>From here on, this FUTOPIX stops being about stickers. Because what we&#8217;re really watching is a modern war for control of cultural ecosystems. Licenses, platforms, manufacturing, talent, athletes, distribution channels, and intellectual property are all being absorbed into a logic of brutal consolidation where the winner isn&#8217;t trying to compete: it&#8217;s trying to centralize power and seize total control of an industry with practically no competitors left.</p><p>Even though <em>PANINI</em> could win a great deal of money in damages, the pursuit of a remedy &#8212; when monetary damages aren&#8217;t enough &#8212; likely won&#8217;t be granted, according to lawyers who specialize in this kind of business.</p><p>In other words: <strong>Panini will probably get a check, but again, it won&#8217;t get the licenses back.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>What&#8217;s Next for PANINI</strong></h3><p>This is the most recent twist, and maybe the most decisive. <em>PANINI</em> is exploring strategic options, including a possible sale. <em>Citi Bank</em> has been picked as financial advisor to <em>Panini Group</em> to evaluate the process. <em>PANINI&#8217;s</em> strategic review follows close on the heels of the death of CEO Aldo Hugo Sallustro in April 2024, who led <em>PANINI</em> for more than 30 years while overseeing the company&#8217;s expansion into the United States.</p><p>Speculation points to global investors like <em>Advent</em>, <em>Charterhouse</em>, and <em>CVC</em> as potential buyers. And here&#8217;s where the truly important subtext appears.</p><p>The death of the longtime CEO automatically set off the succession conversation. Sallustro had sustained the company&#8217;s Italo-Argentine culture for three decades. His death leaves a vacuum of strategic vision at the worst possible moment: loss of American licenses, competitive pressure, and structural transformation of the industry.</p><p>The most natural buyer would be <em>Fanatics</em>, which would fully consolidate the sports-collectibles sector under a single roof: <em>Topps + Panini</em>. That would mark the formal close of the historic duopoly that dominated the industry for decades.</p><p>But the timing doesn&#8217;t look accidental. The 2026 World Cup will probably be an extraordinary year for <em>PANINI</em>. The company could once again top &#8364;2 billion, driven by the event alone. That maximizes the asset&#8217;s valuation, brutally, ahead of any possible acquisition. The sale rumors landing right before the World Cup aren&#8217;t a coincidence &#8212; they&#8217;re the peak of the company&#8217;s narrative and financial value. Meanwhile the fight for control of the market and the talent in this industry will grind on.</p><p><em>Fanatics</em> has hired several <em>PANINI</em> staffers, and <em>PANINI</em> has tried to block the exodus. This matters far more than it seems, because the manufacturing, design, and card <em>secondary market</em> know-how isn&#8217;t trivial. <em>PANINI</em> built two decades of expertise in the U.S.: designers, <em>parallels</em> specialists, <em>autograph procurement</em> experts, and athlete relationships.</p><p>If <em>Fanatics</em> manages to extract that talent, it doesn&#8217;t just win the licenses &#8212; it also wins the operational capacity to execute them. Without that talent, the licenses would be just paper, and there lies one of the great secrets of the creative industries: <strong>companies don&#8217;t compete only for customers or contracts; they compete for accumulated knowledge.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png" width="1254" height="1254" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1254,&quot;width&quot;:1254,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6Pf_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F21a81aa5-ef57-4c36-bf39-39aef3afaa92_1254x1254.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>The Last Sticker</strong></h3><p>Maybe this story was never really about the figures. It was never only about printed stickers, foil packs, or soccer. Deep down, it was always talking about us. About the kids who ran to the newsstand with sweaty coins in their pockets, about the endless afternoons swapping stickers on the sidewalks, about the anxiety of tearing open a pack hoping the hard one would finally show up, and about that small collective ritual that managed to connect entire generations long before social media existed. <strong>Because while today&#8217;s tech world talks obsessively about </strong><em><strong>engagement</strong></em><strong>, communities, and immersive experiences, </strong><em><strong>PANINI</strong></em><strong> had been doing exactly that for decades out of an Italian stationery shop.</strong> Maybe that&#8217;s one of the most beautiful ironies in this whole story: one of the most successful social platforms on the planet never needed the internet to exist. <strong>It ran in parks, schools, corner stores, recess yards, and dining tables &#8212; it ran wherever we humans interacted.</strong></p><p>That&#8217;s why <em>PANINI&#8217;s</em> real asset was never the licenses, nor the printing machines, nor even the premium trading cards worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. The real asset was something much harder to build and, above all, much harder to buy: <strong>the collective emotional memory of several generations.</strong> That explains why the <em>Fanatics</em>-<em>PANINI</em> story leaves so many collectors with a strange feeling. Because although, financially, the market logic looks obvious, culturally it feels as if someone were trying to buy a piece of childhood. But childhoods don&#8217;t work like licenses. Licenses get signed, renegotiated, sold, and lost. <strong>Cultural rituals survive far longer; nobody can acquire, through a bank transfer, what took decades to build inside the emotional memory of millions of people.</strong></p><p><em>Fanatics</em> can end up with contracts, athletes, platforms, and entire markets, but there&#8217;s something it probably will never fully be able to buy: the feeling of walking into a corner store and finding, for the first time, the World Cup album sitting on the counter. That moment belongs to another place, another speed, another kind of economy. An economy where there was still room for wonder, where time seemed slower, and where a kid could spend whole weeks thinking about a single hard-to-get sticker. <strong>Because back then the figures weren&#8217;t competing against thousands of simultaneous stimuli; they were the very center of the conversation. The album traveled tucked under your arm like a badge of identity, and every completed page felt like a small personal victory. Completing a World Cup was also a way of growing up.</strong></p><p>Maybe that&#8217;s why this possible ending feels so symbolic. Because deep down, the story of <em>PANINI</em> is also the story of a much larger generational transition: the shift from a capitalism built on physical rituals and collective memory toward one dominated by platforms, consolidation, and algorithmic control of consumption. <strong>Before, we collected in order to trade; today many collect in order to speculate.</strong> Before, the figures passed through the hands of children; today some end up encased in vaults as financial assets. <strong>Before, the album was an excuse to get together; today it often ends up turned into content for social media.</strong> And yet, against all logic, I&#8217;ve witnessed that the ritual is still alive. Kids still open packs, parents still help stick down the stickers, schools still fill up with improvised swap sessions, and millions of people still feel that little hit of dopamine when a hard-to-get figure finally appears.</p><p>That should tell us something enormous about human nature. Because in an ever more digital, automated, and synthetic world, we still need physical objects that connect us emotionally with others. <strong>We still need symbols, rituals, and shared stories.</strong> And there, probably, is the great strategic &#8212; and also deeply human &#8212; lesson of this whole story: <strong>competitive advantages based solely on exclusive contracts are far more fragile than they look, while advantages built on collective memory, nostalgia, generational rituals, and shared culture can survive even when the companies, the owners, and the rules of the market change.</strong></p><p>Because in the end, the figures were never just figures. They were tiny time capsules. Small emotional archives of who we once were. Maybe someday, when our children or grandchildren find one of those forgotten albums inside an old box, they&#8217;ll open it slowly again, smell the aged paper, and instantly understand something no digital platform will ever fully replicate:</p><h4>There was a time when the whole world fit inside the World Cup album &#8212; honestly, what an extraordinary era we got to live through!</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zrZY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4ff3d7-72d6-4c14-8779-17474a028812_1672x941.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><strong>When Artemis Went to Fetch the Moon!</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zrZY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4ff3d7-72d6-4c14-8779-17474a028812_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zrZY!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fff4ff3d7-72d6-4c14-8779-17474a028812_1672x941.png 424w, 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>On a night in early January of 1610, an aging mathematics professor in the city of Padua &#8212; a man whose academic passions were mostly a way to dodge his enormous debts, the demands of his three children born out of wedlock, and a job that bored him to the marrow &#8212; sat in the dark corners of his study. There he hunched over a tube of leather and brass and pointed it at the sky. Honestly, you couldn&#8217;t call the thing a telescope; it was more of a <em>jury-rigged, home-made</em> astronomy kit, and with it the old professor probed his own curiosity and the edges of the night sky.</p><p>That night, to his deep surprise, he found <strong>three points of light</strong> lined up beside Jupiter. In his field journal he jotted them down as &#8220;new stars.&#8221; Four nights later he scanned the sky again, and this time there were <strong>four</strong> &#8212; but the truly astonishing part was that they <em>moved</em>, which left him chewing on why they&#8217;d behave so strangely, so unlike other heavenly bodies. Only by January 13th, after a great deal of head-scratching, did he grasp that they weren&#8217;t stars at all. They were celestial bodies orbiting something that was not the Earth. The discovery blew his mind: <strong>the Earth was not the center of anything! It&#8217;s just another rock in space, spinning around something else...</strong></p><p><em>Galileo</em> did not discover the moons of Jupiter; he simply <em>saw</em> them move. That sighting would change his life and his fate forever, for better and for worse. The professor&#8217;s real discovery came only afterward, when he set about convincing everyone else that what his &#8220;telescope&#8221; was showing up in the heavens was truer than what <em>Aristotle</em> had written down many centuries before him. It took the Church <strong>one hundred and twenty years</strong> to accept what a fifteen-ducat tube had already proven &#8212; one hundred and twenty years of inertia and threats, hundreds of generations raised on the idea of a universe that did not exist.</p><p>I&#8217;m writing these notes in May of 2026, after two much-needed weeks off, to tell you that a North American company &#8212; from the state of Iowa, no less &#8212; signed a contract with the Department of Energy to extract lunar dust, to be paid at <strong>twenty-five million dollars a kilogram</strong>. All of this is happening in a world where there are already machines that write better than almost every copywriter on your LinkedIn feed, where agentic artificial intelligence just turned the technical barrier to founding a company into a weekend errand, where supply chains are being re-nationalized in real time &#8212; and where we, <strong>the ones who claim to &#8220;design the future,&#8221; keep raising our kids for an Earth that is the center of nothing, arguing, with ridiculous seriousness, over whether to move to </strong><em><strong>Lisbon</strong></em><strong>, whether to pick up a second passport, or whether whining about the swamp of regulations makes us entrepreneurs or just crybabies.</strong></p><p>That&#8217;s the question of this FUTOPIX. I don&#8217;t know <em>which</em> technologies are coming &#8212; that barely matters anymore; technology is like taxes, it always shows up. After the recent spectacle of the <em>NASA | Artemis</em> mission, the question is: <strong>under which of the four moons are we raising &#8212; maybe without ever deciding to &#8212; the generation that will replace us?</strong></p><p><em>Galileo</em> christened his four moons with an embarrassingly courtly name: the <em>&#8220;Medicean Stars,&#8221;</em> in honor of his patrons. But the worst of it was that the Church silenced him; he had to swallow his own discovery on pain of being fried alive. <strong>Later, other astronomers &#8212; </strong><em><strong>Kepler, Marius</strong></em><strong> &#8212; ended up rechristening them with the names we know today: </strong><em><strong>Io, Europa, Ganymede, Callisto.</strong></em><strong> Justice would have been served if at least one of them had been named </strong><em><strong>Galileo.</strong></em> Four figures from Greek mythology, four lovers whom Jupiter seduced, abducted, or transformed.</p><p>Let&#8217;s sit with this for a second. The four moons that split Western cosmology in two are, mythologically, four victims of a god who wanted them for himself. This isn&#8217;t a thing to trivialize; it&#8217;s the exact question that <em>Helium-3</em> is putting to us. Each of the four moons I&#8217;m about to describe would love to be brought down to Earth, like any lovesick troubadour&#8217;s serenade.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png" width="1456" height="969" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:969,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!lJy_!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4afd43a5-3b7b-40bf-ace0-4595c79ea229_1537x1023.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4><strong>The Most Expensive Dust in the Solar System</strong></h4><p><strong>Three liters of lunar dust &#8212; that&#8217;s the quantity the </strong><em><strong>U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)</strong></em><strong> bought in 2025,</strong> to be delivered before 2029 by an <em>Iowa</em> startup called <em>Interlune</em>, which already has a prototype lunar excavator capable of processing a hundred tons of <em>regolith</em> per hour. Don&#8217;t get confused: these aren&#8217;t tons of ore, they&#8217;re liters of an isotope known as <em>Helium-3</em>, trapped in the lunar dust and in a few corners of Earth, deposited there over four and a half billion years of solar wind hammering the Moon&#8217;s atmosphere-free surface.</p><p>So why such a market price &#8212; twenty-five million dollars a kilo (a liter)? It&#8217;s no joke; it&#8217;s real, hard cash on the barrelhead. <em>Helium-3</em> is the <strong>most expensive commodity in the solar system that has already had a first invoice cut for it</strong> &#8212; it already has confirmed customers, signed contracts, and order lines. Space mining stopped being science fiction the moment it stopped being discussed in sci-fi settings and started being discussed in the federal offices of the American government.</p><p>But here&#8217;s where the real action starts for entrepreneurs &#8212; and where the anthropological questions come in, which in the end are the only ones I care about: <strong>why are there five economies today looking at exactly the same dust, why did they simultaneously decide it was worth going to fetch, and why did they build five different architectures to do it?</strong> We anthropologists always love to start our analysis by reading the context. What an object gathers around itself &#8212; technology, capital, mythology, law, ambition &#8212; says more about the historical moment than the object itself. What <em>Helium-3</em> is gathering is a fork in the modern economic spectrum, the kind that sometimes slips by unnoticed but happens only a handful of times per millennium. Let&#8217;s look at what I mean:</p><p>The United States treats <em>Helium-3</em> as a <strong>commodity</strong>. <em>Interlune + Vermeer + DOE.</em> Purchase-order logic. A market.</p><p>China and Russia treat it as a <strong>geo-strategic position</strong>. The <em>International Lunar Research Station</em>, running parallel to the Artemis Accords. Supply-chain-control logic.</p><p>Japan treats it as a <strong>problem of technical elegance</strong>. <em>Magna Petra + ispace</em>: a 2026 mission that doesn&#8217;t excavate but captures the isotope by disturbing the surface. People getting creative.</p><p>The European Union treats it as a <strong>legal artifact</strong>. <em>Moon Agreement 2.0</em> &#8212; you have to sign a treaty before you fly a mission. Logic of legal mediation, regulation, very European.</p><p>India treats it as a <strong>non-aligned option</strong>. <em>Chandrayaan-3</em> already set hardware down at the lunar south pole. It plays its own destiny without signing on with any bloc.</p><p>There&#8217;s a sixth customer almost no one names, and it&#8217;s the one that will decide the real demand curve: <strong>quantum computing</strong>. The dilution refrigerators that cool <em>qubits to millikelvin</em> need mixtures of <em>Helium-3/Helium-4</em>. If nuclear fusion never arrives, quantum will &#8212; and it will be quantum, not energy, that drains the reserve. <em>Helium-3</em> isn&#8217;t just the possible fuel of the next energy era. It&#8217;s also the cold required for the next co-evolution of intelligence.</p><p>More or less: five economies, six distinct demands, one single Moon. This is exactly what Galileo saw &#8212; <strong>more than one gravitational center in the system</strong>. Economies, as I said in the last edition and repeat here because it&#8217;s the thesis of FUTOPIX, <strong>don&#8217;t fail for lack of resources; they fail from misreading the signals.</strong> Reading the signals starts with accepting that every civilization is interpreting them, and the four moons are the four different futures in which one of these readings will hit the jackpot: <em>Helium-3</em>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hDtA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcfdd950c-d996-4628-9c3e-86bb606c0648_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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These are verifiable facts as of April 2026.</p><p><em>Interlune + Vermeer</em> already have their hundred-tons-per-hour lunar excavators ready. The DOE bought three liters for delivery before 2029 &#8212; a real customer, not a lead, not a prospect.</p><p><em>Magna Petra + ispace</em> launch a no-excavation isotope-capture architecture in 2026. Japanese elegance against American muscle: a different philosophy, competing for the same dust.</p><p><em>ILRS</em> (China + Russia) are consolidating an architecture parallel to <em>Artemis</em>. Two legal systems on the same Moon &#8212; it&#8217;s what the South China Sea was in the 2010s, scaled up to space.</p><p>The EU is pushing <em>Moon Agreement 2.0</em>. We already know these folks want to regulate before they extract. It&#8217;s the civilization that feels more at home writing the rulebook than playing the game. Because to play, you have to pay &#8212; the famous <em>&#8220;ticket to play,&#8221;</em> which in other parts of the world we call <em>el CVY, or &#8220;&#191;C&#243;mo Voy Yo?&#8221; &#8212; &#8220;What&#8217;s in it for me?&#8221;</em></p><p>India: <em>Chandrayaan-3</em> already touched down on the lunar south pole in 2023. It has proven hardware and the capacity to play without signing on with anyone.</p><p>Quantum: if <em>Google, IBM</em>, or a Chinese player cracks <em>qubit</em> error correction at scale, demand for <em>Helium-3</em> will overflow.</p><p>As always, the signals are unmistakable. What isn&#8217;t unmistakable is what they mean for ordinary mortals. In FUTOPIX <a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/p/futopix-toma-4">TAKE 4</a> I called this movement the &#8220;<em>cultural twist</em>&#8220;: every technological trend is mediated by the society that absorbs it. Here the impact will be brutal &#8212; five economies, five ways of seeing the world, five bets on the future. The dust will stay the same; it&#8217;s the economy looking at it that decides which model of moon we&#8217;re going to inhabit.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!WlVA!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F62b3cdb7-bd11-4552-95ca-07d082dd30c5_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4><strong>The Dust That Will Reconfigure the Space Economy</strong></h4><p>There&#8217;s something deeply misleading about thinking of space exploration as an extension of geography. The truth is it isn&#8217;t. We&#8217;re not &#8220;going&#8221; to the Moon the way you cross an ocean. <strong>We&#8217;re rewriting the conditions under which a civilization can exist,</strong> and in that process, Helium-3 shows up not as one more resource but as a piece of infrastructure for this whole ontology &#8212; a material that won&#8217;t just feed machines, but will redefine what a society can imagine as possible.</p><p>Because if <em>Buckminster Fuller</em> taught us anything, it&#8217;s that <strong>when you change the energy base of a system, you don&#8217;t improve the civilization &#8212; you replace it.</strong></p><p>For millennia, humanity has been trapped in an energy regime based on combustion: burn to survive. Burn wood, then coal, then oil. Every energy leap expanded our capabilities, but it also defined our limits. Politics, war, the economy, even the architecture of our cities, are direct consequences of how we access energy. In that sense, <strong>Helium-3 isn&#8217;t valuable because it&#8217;s expensive, but because it promises a completely disruptive break</strong> &#8212; clean energy, no combustion, no waste, no significant thermal friction. Energy that doesn&#8217;t destroy the environment that contains it.</p><p>But that&#8217;s where the shallow readings fall short. <strong>The real challenge isn&#8217;t the energy; it&#8217;s what happens afterward.</strong> When energy stops being the bottleneck &#8212; for quantum computing, among other projects &#8212; other systems will emerge as the constraint. That&#8217;s where the second layer of Helium-3 appears, quieter, more strategic: its central role in the architecture of extreme cold. In a world where quantum computing is starting to walk out of the lab, as <em>Michio Kaku</em> anticipated, the problem is no longer just to calculate, but to sustain impossible physical conditions. Temperatures near absolute zero, quantum stability, state coherence. Helium-3 stops being fuel and becomes a <strong>condition of possibility for a new co-evolution of intelligence.</strong></p><p>This is where space exploration reveals its true nature. <strong>Not as a race for territory, but for the infrastructures that will support new forms of production.</strong></p><p>The Moon, then, will stop being a romantic destination and become the logistical node of a larger system. A place where the absence of an atmosphere &#8212; once a problem &#8212; turns into an advantage. Where the solar wind, which for billions of years deposited <em>Helium-3</em> in the regolith, becomes, in retrospect, a process of strategic accumulation. As if the solar system had been quietly stockpiling this inventory with no one to claim it.</p><p>Here comes the anthropological dimension underlying all of this: <strong>each economy isn&#8217;t competing for </strong><em><strong>Helium-3</strong></em><strong>, it&#8217;s projecting onto it its own way of understanding the world.</strong></p><p>The United States turns it into a market because its founding mythology is one of exchange. China turns it into territory because its narrative is one of systemic control. Europe turns it into a treaty because its history is one of mediation. Japan turns it into a technical problem because its culture prizes precision. India turns it into an option because its identity is non-alignment.</p><p><strong>What we&#8217;re watching is not a space race. It&#8217;s a cultural framework amplified by technology.</strong> In that mirror, <em>Helium-3</em> works like a prism, because it forces us to answer an uncomfortable question: <strong>what kind of civilization do we want to be when scarcity stops being the organizing principle?</strong></p><p>This is where a lot of models fall short, because they assume that energy abundance automatically produces well-being. But as <em>Alvin Toffler</em> warned, the problem has never been the availability of resources, but the speed at which societies can adapt to new conditions.</p><p><strong>If tomorrow we solve energy, and we don&#8217;t solve humanity&#8217;s needs, we&#8217;ll be exposed.</strong></p><p>Space exploration, then, is not a project of territorial expansion the way many want to frame it. It&#8217;s an experiment in production, one that forces us to confront our own cultural structures in an environment where the rules change faster than our institutions.</p><p><em>Helium-3</em> becomes the new modern gold rush &#8212; not because it&#8217;s the fuel of a new economy, but because it&#8217;s the future catalyst of technological co-evolution.</p><p>When Galileo saw the moons of Jupiter, he didn&#8217;t just discover objects; he discovered that the center was a relative thing, that what looks fixed is only a limited perspective on the universe.</p><p><strong>Helium-3 is doing the same.</strong> It&#8217;s showing us that the Earth is no longer the operational center of our civilization. That the critical decisions &#8212; energy, computing, technological sovereignty &#8212; are beginning to shift off our planet. For the first time in history, we&#8217;re designing systems that don&#8217;t depend on terrestrial conditions to exist, and that&#8217;s the next frontier.</p><p>This will change everything. <strong>It will change how we educate ourselves</strong>, because we&#8217;re no longer forming individuals for a planet, but for a multi-planetary system. <strong>It will change how we do politics</strong>, because borders stop being geographic and become orbital. <strong>It changes how we understand work</strong>, because the link between effort and survival dissolves once energy stops being scarce. Above all, it will change how we understand the future &#8212; because the future is not a linear projection of the present, but a space of radically open options.</p><p>In that context, <em>Helium-3</em> is not only the target of the new space race. It&#8217;s the excuse we needed to launch it. <strong>That excuse is what&#8217;s forcing us to build the capabilities we need to step outside our historical frame,</strong> to stop thinking like a terrestrial civilization and start operating like a spacefaring one.</p><p>Like every transition of this kind, it won&#8217;t be uniform or peaceful. There will be friction, conflicts, asymmetries. Some of the &#8220;moons&#8221; will be more attractive than others; some will win, others will vanish.</p><p>But what&#8217;s no longer up for debate is the direction of the movement. <em>Helium-3</em> is, perhaps, the first tangible sign that the transition has already begun.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!iIf4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff9b7086f-bd80-4074-a279-f890790b1708_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4>Don&#8217;t Ask Anyone to Bring You the Moon &#8212; Someone Might Actually Do It</h4><p>For centuries, the sky was a limit. A place to observe, to project myths, to look for answers we couldn&#8217;t touch. Today, that same sky is turning into a layer of infrastructure we couldn&#8217;t even imagine before. <strong>Space exploration no longer answers to curiosity; it answers to the need to redesign our civilization from its foundations.</strong> <em>Helium-3</em> emerges in this context not as a distant promise, but as a concrete sign that we&#8217;re entering a new phase: one where energy, intelligence, and territory stop being confined to Earth.</p><p>What&#8217;s truly transformative isn&#8217;t the possibility of extracting resources from the Moon, but <strong>the capacity to reorganize the logic under which we operate as a species</strong>. When energy stops being scarce, the rules of the game change: value will no longer lie in possessing, but in interpreting; no longer in competing for finite resources, but in building systems that amplify possibilities. <em><strong>Helium-3</strong></em><strong> is not just fuel, it&#8217;s context.</strong> A context that forces governments, companies, and entire cultures to rethink their place in a system that no longer has a single center.</p><p>Because <strong>we&#8217;re not facing a race for the Moon, we&#8217;re facing a test of how well we read the future.</strong> Some will see an economic opportunity in that dust, others a geopolitical advantage, others a technical problem.</p><h4>Only a few will understand that what&#8217;s really at stake is the way we choose to co-evolve. <em>Helium-3</em> won&#8217;t change the world on its own; it will change those who know how to read it.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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The strange thing is that these moments don&#8217;t arrive with rockets, fanfare, or cymbals. No headlines, no trumpets. They show up quietly, on some ordinary day, when you&#8217;re sitting in front of a screen and suddenly realize that something that took you decades to solve, you can now do alone, in a single afternoon, with a cup of coffee beside you. The most beautiful part is that <strong>you don&#8217;t solve it halfway &#8212; you solve it better, faster, and with an autonomy that used to be unthinkable.</strong></p><p>That was the day I understood that <em>Claude Code</em> wasn&#8217;t just another tool. It was a biographical turning point &#8212; especially for those of us who came up with the bare minimum in coding: a little dBase, some Visual Basic, that kind of ultra-basic stuff.</p><p>To understand why this moment hit me so hard, <strong>I need to take you back twenty-six years</strong>, to a time when we dreamed big with almost no resources, and when the gap between what we wanted to build and what we could actually build was measured, literally, in the number of programmers you could find, pay, and hold on to.</p><h3>1999: Ideas Avanzadas, or the Art of Trying to Run on One Leg</h3><p>In 1999, when the world was barely shaking off its Y2K hangover and most people still looked at the internet as if it were a mirage, three long-haired dreamers in Colombia decided to found <strong>Ideas Avanzadas</strong>, the first digital-survey company in Latin America. A lot of people have asked me why I have a boxer&#8217;s nose. The answer: so many companies slammed the door in my face &#8212; insisting that this &#8220;online surveys&#8221; thing was useless &#8212; that they ended up flattening my nose, though never my spirit. At Ideas Avanzadas we were pioneers of digital surveys, though at the time we didn&#8217;t even have the perspective to know it; we were simply doing something nobody around us was doing. <strong>Other people invented the word &#8220;pioneer&#8221; later, once we all understood that the trail we cut had turned into a highway.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Sk3h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3547542f-5ac3-42ee-b301-a99a4d180f43_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Sk3h!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3547542f-5ac3-42ee-b301-a99a4d180f43_1536x1024.png 424w, 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Soon after, we made another leap: we moved the whole business over to mobile surveys, using some extraordinary devices called <em>HP Companion PDAs, or Palm Pilots</em>. Getting them to work was a royal pain in the&#8230; back then there was no internet on mobile devices &#8212; we were only just easing into the trend &#8212; but we made them work anyway. For younger readers who never saw one: picture a smartphone, but dumb&#8230; before phones were ever smart, an ink-gray screen and a stylus that looked straight out of a spy novel were the height of cool. With those gadgets we hit the streets to capture public opinion, consumer behavior, voting intention, and so on. We were digitizing a process that had been anchored to paper, pencil, and manual transcription for decades. I still remember the survey-world orthodox crowd trashing our initiative like a farmer railing against the arrival of the tractor.</p><p>In 2010 we upped the ante and founded <strong>the first MVNO in Colombia</strong> (Mobile Virtual Network Operator, for the uninitiated &#8212; a mobile carrier that owns no network of its own but rides on someone else&#8217;s). There, too, we fought the developers to make them understand that user experience mattered as much as code architecture, and that two links and three buttons weren&#8217;t enough to deliver it. Then came more projects, some more aggressive than others, among them <strong>GoDigg</strong>, a cloud platform to democratize bitcoin mining, and <strong>ALT</strong>, an app to democratize alternative investments.</p><p>Laid out like that, in a single paragraph, it looks like an elegant trajectory. <strong>The truth is that every one of those projects was trench warfare against the same seven-headed beast: dependence on developers.</strong></p><h3>The Wound: The Dev Who Understands Code but Not Business</h3><p>Here comes an uncomfortable confession that many startup founders will recognize in silence: <strong>in twenty-five years of building digital products, my greatest pain was never the market, the competition, or the capital. My greatest pain was always the developers.</strong></p><p>Not developers as people, let me be clear, because I&#8217;ve worked with brilliant minds. <strong>The pain was structural, almost cultural.</strong> Finding someone who could program wasn&#8217;t particularly hard; the market was full of competent programmers. The scarcity &#8212; the real scarcity &#8212; was finding someone who could program <strong>and understand the business.</strong> Someone who could look at a user flow and see, at the same time, the technical architecture and the monetization model. Someone who understood that behind every requirement there&#8217;s a commercial hypothesis, that behind every feature there&#8217;s an opportunity cost, and that behind every line of code there&#8217;s a cultural conversation with a user who doesn&#8217;t exist yet.</p><p>That profile, that unicorn, didn&#8217;t exist in sufficient numbers. When one appeared, they were wildly expensive, fleeting, and usually gone to Silicon Valley before you could get them to sign a yearly contract. It happened to me over and over: I&#8217;d find brilliant kids, train them, teach them everything I knew, and just when I thought we were ready to fly, other companies would show up with juicier checks (good for the kids), but those were salaries I, as an entrepreneur, simply couldn&#8217;t match. I won&#8217;t dwell on it, because in other settings I&#8217;ve already been called a crybaby for it.</p><p><strong>So founders like me became professional preachers.</strong> We spent hours, days, weeks explaining the business to the dev, explaining to the dev why the investor was pushing, explaining to the investor that the user was the heart of the business, explaining to everyone what it meant to create value. We were translation nodes in a network where nobody spoke the whole language. The cost of that translation &#8212; in time, money, mental fatigue, and lost opportunities &#8212; is impossible to measure, but I promise you one thing: <strong>it was the highest tax I paid in my entire career as an entrepreneur.</strong></p><p>If there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;ve learned as an anthropologist observing the world of entrepreneurship, it&#8217;s that <strong>every organization is built around its main point of friction.</strong> If your friction point is capital, you build a fundraising machine. If it&#8217;s technical talent, you build a hiring machine. If it&#8217;s execution, you build an operations machine. In my case, for a quarter of a century, I built gigantic machines to mitigate the friction between <strong>the idea</strong> and <strong>the code.</strong> Today, from one day to the next, that friction isn&#8217;t shrinking &#8212; it&#8217;s COLLAPSING!</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TWVI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcec68da3-4882-488a-aea1-2bbfc8428215_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!TWVI!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fcec68da3-4882-488a-aea1-2bbfc8428215_1536x1024.png 424w, 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>If I&#8217;d Had Claude Code Twenty Years Ago, I&#8217;d Probably Be a Billionaire Today</h3><p>I&#8217;ll say it plainly, even if it sounds arrogant: <strong>if I&#8217;d had Claude Code twenty years ago, I&#8217;d probably be a very rich man today.</strong> Not because my ideas were better than anyone else&#8217;s. Not because I had a superior read on the market. But because <strong>the bottleneck that strangled my execution for a quarter of a century would have vanished.</strong> Every MVP that waited six months for a dev to free up would have shipped in two weeks or less. Every iteration that stalled because the senior programmer left for another company &#8212; or because it was a holiday, Easter week, New Year&#8217;s, Columbus Day, Secretary&#8217;s Day, whatever &#8212; would have kept moving without friction. Every pivot we didn&#8217;t make because &#8220;we&#8217;d already invested too much in this architecture&#8221; would have happened at the speed of a conversation.</p><p><strong>The cost wasn&#8217;t only economic &#8212; it was stress and existential dread.</strong> How many ideas died on the whiteboard or in the Excel sheet, how many projects stayed stuck at the wireframe or the mockup, how many pivots never happened because technical debt and human dependence made every change cost too much. <strong>Startups don&#8217;t die from a lack of ideas. They die from the distance between the idea and its execution.</strong> For twenty-five years, that distance, for me, was called <em>developers.</em> Today, that distance has shrunk to zero.</p><p>What really changed is an unprecedented cultural rupture &#8212; not just a productivity gain, as so many like to pretend.</p><p>It&#8217;s from this reflection that I want to ask you to climb one more step with me. <strong>What&#8217;s happening with </strong><em><strong>Claude Code</strong></em><strong> is not a productivity increase.</strong> That language is too small, too corporate, too lukewarm to describe what&#8217;s actually going on. A productivity increase is when Excel replaced the calculator. <em>Claude Code</em> is something else &#8212; it&#8217;s a full <strong>paradigm shift in the division of labor.</strong></p><p>Let&#8217;s go back to fundamentals, as we so often invite you to do at <strong>FUTOPIX</strong>. What is programming, in its most minimal form? Programming is <strong>translating human intention into instructions a machine can execute.</strong> For roughly seventy years, that translation required a specialized intermediary &#8212; the <em>programmer</em> &#8212; who mastered a cryptic syntax and had become the gatekeeper between whoever had the idea and the idea built.</p><p>That figure, that bottleneck, was born around 1950 with the first programming languages and consolidated into a professional caste across the entire second half of the 20th century. When <em>Bill Gates and Paul Allen</em> founded <em>Microsoft,</em> when <em>Jobs and Wozniak</em> founded <em>Apple,</em> when <em>Zuckerberg</em> founded <em>Facebook,</em> they did it because they themselves were part of that caste. <strong>Those of us who couldn&#8217;t code depended on those who could. That dependence organized the entire digital economy.</strong></p><p>What <em>Claude Code</em> is doing &#8212; and this has to be said with the clarity of a scalpel &#8212; is <strong>dissolving the programmer caste&#8217;s monopoly over the idea-to-code translation.</strong> It&#8217;s not just replacing it; it&#8217;s dissolving it, diluting it, turning it into an optional matter.</p><p>Let&#8217;s think about this with historical perspective. When Gutenberg&#8217;s printing press appeared in 1450, <strong>it didn&#8217;t make the scribe&#8217;s work faster</strong> &#8212; it ended scribework as a monopoly on the production of knowledge. When the sewing machine appeared in the 19th century, <strong>it didn&#8217;t improve the seamstress&#8217;s productivity</strong> &#8212; it transformed the relationship between the individual and the making of their own clothing. When the automobile was democratized, <strong>it didn&#8217;t make coachmen more efficient</strong> &#8212; it replaced them as an economic category.</p><p><em><strong>Claude Code</strong></em><strong> is to programming what the printing press was to scribework.</strong> It isn&#8217;t a tool that helps the programmer; it&#8217;s a technology that reorders the entire relationship between the one who dreams up a product and the product built.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!n_q_!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F31070e09-6f24-4776-9b95-0aed387c1875_1024x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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In that book, <em>Musashi</em> teaches a technique he named <em>Ni Ten Ichi Ryu</em>: <strong>one school, two swords.</strong></p><p>The idea is radical. While every samurai of his era fought with a long sword held in both hands, <em>Musashi</em> wielded a long sword in one hand and a short sword &#8212; called <em>the companion</em> &#8212; in the other. It wasn&#8217;t for show. It was a strategic philosophy. <strong>With two swords, one man is worth ten. With two swords, you don&#8217;t die with a weapon still sheathed.</strong></p><p>Let me say it directly: <em><strong>Claude Code</strong></em><strong> is the modern entrepreneur&#8217;s companion sword.</strong> You&#8217;re still the long sword &#8212; the one that sets the direction, that carries the intention, that holds the sense of the business, that knows the customer, that understands the market, that has lived the sleepless nights wondering whether the revenue model holds up. <strong>That remains your main weapon, and nobody can replace it for you.</strong> But now you have a second sword, a <em>companion sword,</em> that moves with superhuman agility on the very terrain where you used to freeze: the translation of your vision into executable code.</p><p><em>Musashi</em> writes something that today resonates with almost unsettling precision: <em>&#8220;From one thing, know ten thousand things. When you attain the Way of Strategy, there will not be one thing you cannot see.&#8221;</em> <strong>With the two swords, the solo founder sees what used to require a team of twenty.</strong> The power asymmetry that once favored huge corporations with infinite budgets is evening out. The individual with vision and <em>Claude Code</em> has, today, more execution capacity than many companies that were billing a hundred million dollars ten years ago.</p><h2>You to You Squared</h2><p>Another book that has kept me company for years is <em>The Quantum Leap Strategy</em> by <em>Price Pritchett.</em> Its thesis is simple and brutal: <strong>quantum leaps don&#8217;t happen by working harder within the same system; they happen when you change the system.</strong> It&#8217;s not <em>more of the same, faster</em> &#8212; it&#8217;s <em>a radically different way of operating.</em></p><p><em>Pritchett</em> puts it this way: <em>you to you squared.</em> It&#8217;s not that you improve by 20%, 30%, 50%. It&#8217;s that you multiply your capacity by an exponential factor <strong>because the new system removes a constraint you used to take as inevitable.</strong></p><p>This &#8212; exactly this &#8212; is what <em>Claude Code</em> offers the contemporary entrepreneur. <strong>It doesn&#8217;t make you program faster. It makes you program things you couldn&#8217;t program at all before.</strong> It pulls you out of the category of &#8220;entrepreneur who depends on developers&#8221; and moves you into the category of &#8220;entrepreneur sovereign over their own stack.&#8221;</p><p>When <em>Pritchett</em> says <em>&#8220;act as if you had complete faith; go for the quantum leap with everything you&#8217;ve got,&#8221;</em> you could read it as cheap motivational self-help. <strong>Today, I read it as a technical description of what&#8217;s possible.</strong> If someone had told me five years ago that I, at my age, with no team of developers, could design, prototype, and launch functional applications working alone with an AI as my companion, I&#8217;d have said they were on drugs. Today I do it on Saturday mornings, between one cup of coffee and the next.</p><h3>The Most Solid Source of Independence</h3><p>Let me allow myself a sentence I know will sound excessive, but which I write with the conviction of someone who has spent twenty-five years in this industry: <em><strong>Claude Code</strong></em><strong> is the most powerful source of individual independence that has appeared in my professional life.</strong></p><p>When I say independence, I don&#8217;t mean it in a vague or romantic sense. I mean something very concrete, almost geometric: <strong>Independence from other people&#8217;s schedules.</strong> I no longer have to wait for a developer to &#8220;free up&#8221; to move my idea forward. My idea moves forward when I have time to think it.</p><p><strong>Independence from startup capital.</strong> Many of my earlier projects died because the cost of building the MVP was prohibitive before I could validate the hypothesis. Today the cost of an MVP is measured in days of personal work, not in investment rounds.</p><p><strong>Independence from the geography of talent.</strong> I no longer need to be in Medell&#237;n, Bogot&#225;, Mexico City, Miami, or San Francisco to have access to a world-class technical team. My technical team fits inside my laptop.</p><p><strong>Independence from internal politics.</strong> No need to negotiate with the CTO, no need to fight with the lead developer, no need to convince the team that the <em>feature</em> is a priority. If you decide it&#8217;s a priority, it&#8217;s a priority.</p><p><strong>Independence from the rhythm of the venture-capital cycle.</strong> I don&#8217;t have to raise a round to validate an idea. I validate it myself, alone, with my companion sword.</p><p><strong>The deepest of them all: independence from mediation.</strong> My idea no longer has to pass through another person&#8217;s interpretive filter. I think, I speak, and the code appears. The gap between signifier and signified &#8212; the same gap I&#8217;ve described in earlier <strong>FUTOPIX</strong> issues as the very heart of anthropology &#8212; closes in the direct experience of the founder-builder.</p><p><strong>This is the kind of independence that historically existed only for the artisans who built their own objects by hand in the workshop at home.</strong> What <em>Claude Code</em> offers is the digital version of that craftsmanship, but with industrial capacity. It&#8217;s the return of the <em>maker,</em> the <em>builder,</em> the <em>tinkerer,</em> raised to the tenth power.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dj28!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ae286-3885-43c7-b626-4e3234da27f6_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dj28!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ae286-3885-43c7-b626-4e3234da27f6_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dj28!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ae286-3885-43c7-b626-4e3234da27f6_1536x1024.png 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dj28!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ae286-3885-43c7-b626-4e3234da27f6_1536x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dj28!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ae286-3885-43c7-b626-4e3234da27f6_1536x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dj28!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F682ae286-3885-43c7-b626-4e3234da27f6_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>The Rebirth of the Founder-Builder</h3><p>I want to propose a cultural thesis, because <strong>FUTOPIX</strong> wouldn&#8217;t be <strong>FUTOPIX</strong> if we didn&#8217;t look at the phenomenon through an anthropologist&#8217;s eyes.</p><p><strong>For seventy years, the digital economy was organized around the separation between the one who thinks up the product and the one who builds it.</strong> The product manager dreamed, the developer executed. The founder sold the vision, the CTO made it real. The designer drew the screen, the engineer implemented it. This division of labor worked, but it also created enormous distortions: loss of fidelity between intention and execution, cultural friction between teams, cumulative delays, and a hierarchical dependence where real power ended up residing with whoever controlled the code.</p><p>What we&#8217;re living through now, with <em>Claude Code</em> and tools of the same family, is <strong>the return of the founder-builder</strong> &#8212; that figure who existed in the early days of personal computing, when <em>Steve Wozniak</em> soldered his own boards and <em>Bill Gates</em> wrote BASIC at night. That figure disappeared as projects grew too big and complex for one person. Now it&#8217;s coming back, <strong>but with a superpower </strong><em><strong>Wozniak</strong></em><strong> didn&#8217;t have: an AI as a constant companion that amplifies technical capacity without diluting business vision.</strong></p><p>The founder-builder of 2026 is not the lone programmer of the &#8216;80s. <strong>It&#8217;s a new hybrid: someone who thinks about the business, converses with the AI, validates with the user, and closes the loop without ever leaving their own head.</strong> The feedback cycles that used to take weeks or months now take hours. The speed of learning shoots up. And the speed of learning &#8212; let&#8217;s never forget it &#8212; <strong>is the only truly sustainable competitive advantage in an exponential world.</strong></p><h3>What This Means for Those Who Read Me</h3><p>If you&#8217;re reading this <strong>FUTOPIX</strong> and you&#8217;re an entrepreneur, an executive, a student, a curious mind, a dissident from corporate tedium, or any other member of this tribe of wide-awake dreamers, I want to leave you three ideas to carry with you:</p><p><strong>First: if you have an idea you&#8217;ve been carrying for years because you couldn&#8217;t figure out how to build it, this is the moment.</strong> The door has just opened. The technical barriers that paralyzed you for a decade are no longer there. What used to require landing a co-founder CTO now requires learning to converse strategically with an AI. That can be learned. It isn&#8217;t trivial, but it can be learned.</p><p><strong>Second: your advantage is no longer the code &#8212; it&#8217;s the question.</strong> In a world where anyone can produce code with AI, the difference will be made by whoever knows how to frame the right questions, whoever has the sharpest business instinct, whoever understands the customer most deeply, whoever has aesthetic and ethical judgment about what&#8217;s worth building. <strong>The human fundamentals &#8212; empathy, judgment, vision, taste &#8212; are more valuable than ever,</strong> precisely because technical execution is becoming a commodity.</p><p><strong>Third: the window won&#8217;t stay open forever.</strong> When every entrepreneur in the world has access to these tools, the competitive advantage will have been absorbed by the market. Whoever adopts them now, whoever masters them in the next twenty-four months, will operate with a brutal time asymmetry over those who adopt them in 2028 or 2029. <strong>In moments of technological transition, the first twenty-four months are worth the next ten years.</strong> Ask the people who bought domains in 1995, who joined Facebook in 2008, who mined Bitcoin in 2011.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!AtFQ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9f49ac10-c3eb-48a1-b03f-9b66fb6cb5d1_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3>A Final Confession</h3><p>I&#8217;m entering the maturity of life. I&#8217;ve built, closed, and sold companies. I&#8217;ve made money and lost it. I&#8217;ve hired dozens of developers and suffered the departure of just as many. I&#8217;ve lived through every stage of the entrepreneurial cycle, from the euphoria of launch to the silence of failure. And yet, <strong>never in my professional life have I felt as free to build as I feel today.</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s not nostalgia for the nineties. It&#8217;s not teenage excitement over a new technology. <strong>It&#8217;s the calm certainty that, for the first time in almost thirty years, the distance between my imagination and my execution depends almost entirely on my own will.</strong></p><p>This is what <em>Claude Code</em> means to me. I don&#8217;t see it as a tool, nor as an assistant. I see it the way you see <strong>a traveling companion who gives you back something you thought you&#8217;d lost forever: the ability to build alone, at my own pace, by my own rules, without asking permission, without waiting for anyone.</strong></p><p><strong>The long sword is still mine. The companion sword has just arrived</strong> &#8212; and with both in hand, as <em>Musashi</em> taught, one man is worth ten thousand.</p><p>If this <strong>FUTOPIX</strong> stirred something in you &#8212; a sleeping idea, an old rebellion, a project shut away in a drawer &#8212; <strong>I invite you to take it out and put it on the table.</strong> The technology you were waiting for to build it has already arrived.</p><p><strong>The rest is up to you.</strong></p><h4>It&#8217;s time to reclaim the sovereignty to build.</h4><h4>It&#8217;s time to think big without begging for execution.</h4><h4>It&#8217;s time for the founder-builder of the 21st century.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5plw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3961e231-6676-4743-87d8-20f120d1a238_1536x1024.png" 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GPT</a></p><p><a href="https://www.futopix.com/p/futopix-toma-12-antropologia-y-los">Anthropology and Personal AI Agents</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Your Kids Need to Learn to Invest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Take 6 | From Saving to Navigating Intelligent Economic Systems]]></description><link>https://www.futopix.com/p/why-your-kids-need-to-learn-to-invest</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.futopix.com/p/why-your-kids-need-to-learn-to-invest</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[FUTOPIX | Gabriel Bedoya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:46:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!GCIa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe19e9305-7917-4690-94bf-c9fc143608b7_1408x768.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Cultural interfaces that connect us to an earlier version of ourselves, to cosmogonies and to passages of history that hand us back a whole set of imaginaries. For me, one of those portals is the old metal coin bank from the bygone <strong>Caja Social &#8212; a little metal chest that looked like a tiny portable vault, absurdly heavy for a child, with that dry, almost ceremonial clink every time a coin dropped inside.</strong> And the interesting part is that the &#8220;chink&#8221; wasn&#8217;t just metal hitting metal. It was a promise, a primitive way of understanding the future.</p><p>I&#8217;m certain many of you reading this know exactly what I mean. When I was just a kid, my mother gave me my first <em>piggy bank</em>, <strong>a steel coin bank where I stashed the &#8220;change&#8221; I got for running errands for her and my aunts and uncles.</strong> At home, every one of my siblings had one. It wasn&#8217;t optional &#8212; it was part of the family ritual, the way our parents drilled into us early on an idea that seemed unquestionable at the time: <strong>you had to save for the future.</strong></p><p>That was our first contract with time. So I went from the little chest to the red house, and from there to the ceramic piggy. Coin after coin, I built up my savings &#8212; though I have to confess the discipline was never constant; plenty of times I dodged saving to treat myself to a few indulgences. <strong>In the end, what mattered was building the habit, because from the coin bank we leapt to the first bank account, and from there to the term deposit (yes, I had one of those too).</strong> The savings passbook and the term deposit weren&#8217;t just the financial instruments of the era &#8212; they were the symbol of discipline, foresight, and preparation for the uncertain. The mantra was clear: you had to work, earn money, put it away, and wait for something to come along to spend it on.</p><p>But as the years went by, that map stopped being enough &#8212; and eventually became almost irrelevant.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bIcz!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b1183d2-087b-44e1-8585-0de299a18d55_1408x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bIcz!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1b1183d2-087b-44e1-8585-0de299a18d55_1408x768.png 424w, 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It threw me straight back to that metallic past, to the dry sound of coins dropping into a bank &#8212; but it also forced me to confront something deeper: <strong>the suspicion that the very ritual we inherited no longer does the job we think it does.</strong> My answer caught him off guard, because it wasn&#8217;t the one he expected.</p><p><strong>I told him that today it&#8217;s no longer important to teach our kids to save.</strong> Not because saving was a mistake, but because it was the right answer to a system that no longer exists. <strong>It was a tool designed for an environment where money was relatively stable, where time worked in favor of whoever hoarded it, and where discipline was enough to preserve value. The world stopped running on those rules.</strong></p><p>What our kids really need isn&#8217;t to learn how to store money, but to understand how it behaves. They need to learn to <strong>position</strong> it, to read its flows, to spot where it expands and where it erodes. <strong>They need to learn to invest &#8212; not as some financial sophistication, but as a basic capacity for inhabiting the economic system that is already emerging.</strong></p><p>This is where the real generational tension shows up. While many parents still think about teaching their kids to protect value, the system has already evolved into one where value only survives if it moves. <strong>We&#8217;re moving from a world where money was a static object, toward a world where money is a </strong><em><strong>programmable system</strong></em><strong>.</strong> It&#8217;s in that transition where everything gets more complicated, because the map we inherited stops matching the territory our kids are facing.</p><p>Saving, as we&#8217;ve traditionally understood it, rested on an implicit premise: that money could hold up over time without significantly deteriorating. <strong>Today that premise no longer holds. Inflation acts as a silent, constant, almost imperceptible erosion that wears down the value of money sitting still.</strong> But beyond inflation, there&#8217;s an even deeper dynamic: <strong>capital that moves, that participates, that plugs into growth systems is being rewarded out of all proportion compared to capital that stays static.</strong></p><p>In other words, <strong>money stopped being a deposit and became a </strong><em><strong>flow</strong></em><strong>.</strong> When something is a flow, you can&#8217;t understand it through the logic of passive accumulation. <strong>You have to understand it through the logic of circulation, of speed, of strategic positioning.</strong> Saving meant containing, stopping, preserving. Investing means releasing, exposing, letting money interact with systems that grow it under certain conditions.</p><p>That&#8217;s where the discomfort begins for a lot of people. Because teaching kids to save was simple &#8212; it was a moral narrative: discipline, patience, sacrifice. <strong>Teaching them to invest, on the other hand, means accepting uncertainty, talking about risk, admitting that not everything is controllable.</strong> It means stepping onto terrain where even we are still learning. But dodging that conversation doesn&#8217;t protect our kids &#8212; it just leaves them without tools to operate in the new economic system.</p><p>Because they aren&#8217;t going to live in a world where money waits. <strong>They&#8217;re going to live in a world where money moves, gets programmed, gets optimized, gets redistributed in real time.</strong> A world where stillness isn&#8217;t prudence, it&#8217;s loss; where staying on the sidelines isn&#8217;t neutral, it&#8217;s a handicap.</p><p>Here comes the idea that&#8217;s hardest to accept but that we most need to internalize: <strong>saving, as we&#8217;ve historically understood it, has stopped being a value-preservation strategy and has become a slow form of losing it.</strong> Saving is the easiest way to make yourself poor.</p><p>This isn&#8217;t a tweak. It isn&#8217;t an incremental recommendation. It isn&#8217;t that we should save a little less and invest a little more. <strong>We&#8217;re facing a paradigm substitution.</strong></p><p>We&#8217;ve gone from teaching kids to resist time to teaching them to amplify it; from teaching them to hoard to teaching them to move within complex systems &#8212; and that transition isn&#8217;t optional. <strong>It&#8217;s the difference between taking part in the economy that&#8217;s coming&#8230; or staying trapped in the one that already ceased to exist.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!V3NB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F95da53db-5891-407d-8a97-2d7a806cfb15_1408x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>From Object to Intelligent System</strong></h3><p>Money has never been static, but what we&#8217;re seeing today isn&#8217;t just one more incremental co-evolution &#8212; it&#8217;s a change at the root. <strong>Money has stopped being a store of value and is becoming an </strong><em><strong>intelligent, programmable, ontological system</strong></em><strong>.</strong> This isn&#8217;t a cosmetic change; it&#8217;s a change in its very nature.</p><p>Before, money was something you stored, transferred, or spent. Today, money is starting to behave, to execute instructions, to interact with other systems without necessarily a person making each decision.</p><p>To grasp the scale of this shift, think about something simple. When you deposited money in a bank account, that money sat there, waiting for you to decide what to do with it. It was passive. It depended entirely on your action. In the new environment, by contrast, money can be programmed to act under certain conditions. This is where <em>smart contracts</em> come in. They&#8217;re nothing more than coded agreements that execute automatically when something happens. <strong>It&#8217;s money that stops waiting and starts operating.</strong></p><p>Imagine, for example, that you have a rental agreement. In the traditional world, the tenant has to remember to pay, the landlord has to verify the payment, and if something breaks down, a chain of friction begins: calls, delays, conflicts. In a system based on <em>smart contracts</em>, the money is released automatically on the agreed day, provided the conditions are met. If they aren&#8217;t, the system acts accordingly. No interpretation, no intermediary. <strong>The money executes the agreement all by itself.</strong></p><p>Another example even closer to home: many of us had relatives who gave us company shares &#8212; certificates we hoarded as if they were Morgan&#8217;s treasure. For that to work in the traditional model, someone had to monitor the market, make decisions, buy or sell those securities. In the new model, that portfolio can be managed by automated rules or even by <em>AI</em>, which reallocates capital based on predefined market conditions. If an asset falls below a certain threshold, the system reacts. If another climbs, the system reassigns. <strong>The money isn&#8217;t just invested &#8212; it&#8217;s </strong><em><strong>thinking in operational terms</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p>This is where a gap opens up that we can&#8217;t ignore. If we, as parents, are still trying to understand what it means for money to behave this way, <strong>how do we prepare our kids to interact with this new kind of system?</strong> Because they aren&#8217;t going to walk into a world where money is static. They&#8217;re going to walk into an environment where money is dynamic, reactive, and &#8212; in many cases &#8212; autonomous.</p><p><em>Decentralized finance (DeFi)</em> will accelerate this shift even further, because it strips out intermediaries, borders, and business hours. Money no longer needs to be locked inside a banking institution that opens and closes. It can flow continuously, available 24/7, with no geographic or bureaucratic friction. You can move value anywhere in the world in minutes, without asking permission, without waiting for external validations. <strong>Money stops being &#8220;locked up&#8221; and starts behaving like a constant flow.</strong></p><p>And in parallel, the <em>tokenization of assets</em> is breaking another historic barrier: access. Before, investing in real estate, art, or certain financial instruments required large amounts of capital. Today, those assets can be fractioned into small digital units, letting more people take part. You can own a fraction of a building, of a work of art, or of a diversified portfolio without needing to be a major investor. <strong>Ownership stops being absolute and becomes distributed.</strong></p><p>But this democratization comes at a cost: complexity. Because in this new system, having money isn&#8217;t enough. You have to understand how it moves, under what rules it operates, what risks it carries. <strong>Whoever doesn&#8217;t understand these systems simply doesn&#8217;t take part in them.</strong> And not taking part is no longer neutral. It&#8217;s staying outside of where value is being created.</p><p>That&#8217;s why, more than teaching our kids what money is, we need to teach them how it behaves. Because the money they&#8217;re going to inherit won&#8217;t be kept in a coin bank. It will be programmed, moved, and will make decisions inside systems that wait for no one.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png" width="1408" height="768" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:768,&quot;width&quot;:1408,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!rdTH!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4d87f6fc-ac7a-4239-81ec-50775aceb763_1408x768.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>The Collapse of the Model We Inherited</strong></h3><p>We grew up under a seemingly stable, almost unquestionable logic: <strong>study, work, earn, save, retire.</strong> That model didn&#8217;t just organize our economic life &#8212; it organized our relationship with time, with effort, and with the very idea of the future. <strong>It was a cultural contract that offered clarity and an implicit promise: if you did the right thing for long enough, the system would eventually reward you with stability.</strong> And yet that contract is being eroded by forces that don&#8217;t operate in a linear way but an exponential one &#8212; forces that ask no permission and announce no arrival; they simply reconfigure the environment we live in.</p><p><em>AI</em> is perhaps the most obvious manifestation of this transformation. <strong>It&#8217;s driving down the value of many forms of work, especially those based on repetition or on processing structured information.</strong> What once took years of training and experience can now be done in seconds by trained systems. This doesn&#8217;t mean human work disappears, but it does mean a deep redefinition of its value. <strong>Effort on its own stops being a guarantee of relevance</strong>, and knowledge, when it&#8217;s replicable, stops being scarce. What really starts to matter is the ability to understand where that effort fits within broader systems that are constantly evolving.</p><p>At the same time, and in parallel, capital assets keep expanding at a rate higher than labor income. As <em>Thomas Piketty</em> pointed out, <strong>capital grows faster than income</strong> &#8212; but what truly matters isn&#8217;t the phrase itself, it&#8217;s the structural implication it carries. <strong>The system starts to reward ownership over effort</strong>, and that shift introduces a fracture in the model we inherited. <strong>If labor loses relative capacity to accumulate and capital gains capacity to expand, then the equation changes at the root. It&#8217;s no longer enough to take part in the system through work; you have to understand how to position yourself within it, how to interact with its dynamics, and how to anticipate its moves.</strong></p><p>In that new scenario, income starts to become unstable, employment stops being a guarantee and turns into just one more variable inside an uncertain environment. Linear trajectories break, cycles shorten, and predictability &#8212; one of the pillars of the old model &#8212; begins to fade. It&#8217;s at this point that an uncomfortable but unavoidable truth emerges: <strong>money grows where it circulates, not where time is invested.</strong> This isn&#8217;t meant to devalue work, but to place it in its new position within the system. <strong>Work is still a means of generation, but the expansion of value happens on another layer, in another logic, at another rhythm.</strong></p><p>This is precisely where saving, as we understood it, begins to lose its original meaning. Saving meant stopping money, preserving it, protecting it from the environment. It was a coherent strategy in a system where time didn&#8217;t significantly erode accumulated value. But in an environment where inflation acts as constant erosion and where dynamic capital is what earns the biggest rewards, <strong>stopping money stops being prudent and starts being costly.</strong> Saving, in its traditional form, stops being a preservation strategy and becomes an illusion of security &#8212; a feeling of control that doesn&#8217;t necessarily translate into real protection within today&#8217;s system.</p><p>If we widen the lens from an anthropological perspective, the pattern becomes even clearer. Every society has historically trained its new generations in the skills needed to survive within its environment. At one point it was hunting, then farming, later trade. Each transition redefined what it meant to be prepared. <strong>Today we&#8217;re facing a new transition, one where the critical skill is no longer solely producing value with the body or with time, but understanding how value moves within complex systems.</strong> In this context, saying that <em>investing is the new hunting</em> stops being an aesthetic metaphor and becomes a functional description of reality.</p><p>Investing determines access to resources, stability, and freedom. It&#8217;s the contemporary way of positioning yourself within the economy. Not teaching this skill doesn&#8217;t protect our kids from risk; on the contrary, <strong>it exposes them to a system they won&#8217;t understand, with no tools to navigate it.</strong> That said, reducing investing to a technical dimension would be a mistake. Investing isn&#8217;t only about knowing financial instruments or platforms &#8212; it&#8217;s a discipline that demands a deep understanding of yourself. It means managing emotions in volatile environments, holding decisions in the middle of uncertainty, and developing judgment when information is abundant but clarity is scarce. Risk stops being an enemy to avoid and becomes information to be interpreted, read, contextualized.</p><p>Within this same fabric another layer appears that&#8217;s rarely addressed with the seriousness it deserves: attention. We live in an economy where human time is captured, analyzed, and monetized with millimetric precision. Every digital interaction, every second in front of a screen, every seemingly trivial gesture is being converted into value for someone else. In this context, <strong>attention becomes an economic asset</strong>, and whoever doesn&#8217;t learn to recognize it ends up handing it over without realizing. The question stops being how much time we spend, and becomes who is capitalizing on that time. <strong>Your attention is already an asset &#8212; the difference is whether you know how to capture it, or whether someone else does it for you.</strong></p><p>All of this leads us to a conclusion that goes beyond the financial. The change we&#8217;re witnessing isn&#8217;t technical, it&#8217;s cultural. It&#8217;s the move from an employee mindset to an owner mindset. It&#8217;s leaving behind thinking in terms of linear income to start thinking in terms of capital allocation, strategic positioning, systemic understanding. We need to raise individuals who don&#8217;t just take part in the system but understand it &#8212; who are capable of reading <em>weak signals</em>, of anticipating moves, and of making informed decisions in complex environments. Individuals who see money not as an end in itself, but as a dynamic system of relationships that&#8217;s constantly evolving.</p><p>This means teaching concepts like value, <em>compound growth</em>, and volatility from early on, but it also demands something much harder: <strong>teaching kids to hold a long-term vision in an environment engineered for instant gratification.</strong> Teaching them to wait when everything invites them to react, to build when everything incentivizes consumption, to think when everything pushes them to execute without reflection. It&#8217;s at this point that emotional intelligence becomes as important as financial intelligence, because no strategy, however sophisticated, survives if the person running it can&#8217;t sustain it over time. <strong>Without emotional control, no strategy survives.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pN_G!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1afaffcc-24f0-4118-af45-b67bd5c4889b_1408x768.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pN_G!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1afaffcc-24f0-4118-af45-b67bd5c4889b_1408x768.png 424w, 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The problem is that <strong>the environment changed faster than the narratives that explained it</strong>, and we keep passing on those narratives as if they were still enough. It&#8217;s in that lag where everything is decided, because when we hand down an outdated map, we don&#8217;t just confuse &#8212; we also limit. This isn&#8217;t a minor error; it&#8217;s a decision that shapes how our kids are going to interpret the world.</p><p>If we keep teaching the old paradigm (you have to save), we aren&#8217;t being prudent &#8212; we&#8217;re being blind to change. <strong>We&#8217;re preparing our kids to navigate a territory that no longer exists</strong>, a world where money could sit still, where linear effort built stability, and where time rewarded whoever simply knew how to wait. That world didn&#8217;t vanish all at once; it dissolved slowly, and in that process many never noticed.</p><p>But if we decide to update the map, then what we hand down stops being merely a financial tool and becomes something far more powerful. <strong>We give them the ability to read systems</strong>, to understand invisible dynamics, to recognize patterns before they become obvious. We give them the possibility of acting with intention, not from reaction, and of building their own relationship with money &#8212; not from fear, but from understanding. <strong>Because deep down, this was never just about money &#8212; it&#8217;s about preparing them to be free.</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s about <strong>gaining degrees of autonomy in a system that tends to capture whoever doesn&#8217;t understand it</strong>, about being able to make decisions without being fully hostage to a single source of income, about being able to experiment, fail, and learn at stages where the cost is still manageable. It&#8217;s about breaking, once and for all, with the invisible inheritance of financial stress that marked entire generations.</p><p>That&#8217;s why it&#8217;s important to understand that <strong>investing early isn&#8217;t a privilege &#8212; it&#8217;s a form of literacy.</strong> It&#8217;s learning to read the language of the system our kids are already living in, even though many adults still don&#8217;t fully grasp it. It&#8217;s teaching them that money isn&#8217;t stored, it&#8217;s positioned; that it doesn&#8217;t accumulate by inertia, but moves with intention inside systems that amplify it.</p><p>But something even deeper happens when we teach this. We aren&#8217;t just teaching a skill &#8212; we&#8217;re activating a way of thinking. We&#8217;re changing the question that guides their lives. They&#8217;re going from asking themselves what job they&#8217;ll land, to asking themselves how they&#8217;ll build value, how they&#8217;ll allocate it, and how they&#8217;ll grow it inside systems that aren&#8217;t linear. That shift, subtle as it seems, completely redefines their relationship with the future.</p><p>A way of understanding that money is a dynamic system, that attention is an asset, that time isn&#8217;t something that passes but something that amplifies depending on how you use it, and that decisions, when they align with the right systems, can scale far beyond what individual effort would ever allow.</p><p>We need to explain to our kids that the future doesn&#8217;t wait, doesn&#8217;t pause for us to be ready, or for us to fully understand its rules. It advances, it reorganizes, it rewards those who take part and leaves behind those who stay static. In the middle of that constant movement, our kids aren&#8217;t watching from outside &#8212; <strong>they&#8217;re already inside the system.</strong></p><p>They&#8217;re already being shaped by it, already interacting with its dynamics, already handing over their time, their attention, and eventually their capital, even if they don&#8217;t call it that.</p><h4>The only question that really matters is whether they&#8217;ll arrive in that world with tools&#8230; or with obsolete instructions. That decision &#8212; despite all the technological complexity, despite the speed of change, despite the apparent inevitability of the system &#8212; is still ours.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5plw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3961e231-6676-4743-87d8-20f120d1a238_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5plw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3961e231-6676-4743-87d8-20f120d1a238_1536x1024.png 424w, 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href="https://www.futopix.com/p/futopix-take-11-la-economia-del-no">La Econom&#237;a del No Tiempo</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[From Founder to Crybaby: What Nobody Tells You About Building a Company]]></title><description><![CDATA[Take 5 | The raw truth about building companies in Colombia]]></description><link>https://www.futopix.com/p/from-founder-to-crybaby-what-nobody</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.futopix.com/p/from-founder-to-crybaby-what-nobody</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[FUTOPIX | Gabriel Bedoya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:45:42 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!LVfI!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2b8063a4-c13b-4472-9745-82d8322be8be_2814x1536.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" 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Quite the opposite &#8212; what I&#8217;m putting on the table today is <strong>a reflection that invites us to find better paths for building new companies</strong>.</p><p>As a futurist, it matters that you understand the circumstances of each system. Colombia is a country with <strong>an immeasurable capacity for producing founders</strong>. I&#8217;ve always said it and I&#8217;ll stand by it here: <strong>in Colombia, entrepreneurs sprout up from under the rocks</strong>. The problem is the system &#8212; which, and this isn&#8217;t just because we currently have a socialist/communist government, has always been designed to serve the economy of the past and was never built for the opportunities the future offers.</p><p>Now, if the current continuity candidate wins the election, <strong>it will be the end of any form of entrepreneurship in Colombia</strong>. Or can anyone name me the great brands born out of more than 60 years of socialism in Cuba or North Korea, or the unicorns coming out of economies like Venezuela and Nicaragua?</p><p>For a lot of hot-headed folks, it&#8217;s easy to talk about <em>crybaby founders</em> from the comfort of speculation, with zero <em>data</em> to back up the argument. So I&#8217;ll build this piece on real evidence and drop the sources at the end, in case anyone&#8217;s curious and wants to go deeper.</p><p>Enough turning the screw &#8212; let&#8217;s get straight into what brings us here today.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png" width="1456" height="827" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:827,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jUVW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F27091a3d-fe9c-47c3-9cb4-1f5b927f48d6_2752x1564.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>My life as a founder has dragged me through every moment of truth in the brutal job of building companies. I can say without a shred of doubt that <strong>I&#8217;ve been an entrepreneur for as long as I can remember</strong>.</p><p>My first memories go way back, when I was barely a kid. My father had bought some gardening tools to keep up the tiny patch of yard at the house where we grew up, in the La Am&#233;rica neighborhood of Medell&#237;n. Those tools slept in a little storage nook under the stairs that climbed to the second floor of our house&#8230; And when I say they slept, I mean it literally: I almost never saw them used.</p><p>One day a gardener knocked on the door offering his services. My mother hired him, and soon it became routine. Every two or three weeks the man came to cut the little grass we had out front. Back then I figured it made no sense to keep tools locked away if nobody used them &#8212; and that&#8217;s how <strong>I decided to set up shop against &#8220;Don Pedro.&#8221;</strong></p><p>So I started offering to mow the lawns and yards of the neighbors on the block. I even put together a little crew of buddies, going house to house <strong>&#8220;buzzing the grass.&#8221;</strong> The reaction from the stuck-up crowd didn&#8217;t take long: the folks who thought they were a class above quickly nicknamed us <strong>&#8220;the street urchins,&#8221;</strong> the girls stopped saying hello to us, and plenty of parents forbade their kids from mixing with the riffraff.</p><p><strong>That&#8217;s where my rebellion against the system began.</strong> The truth is I couldn&#8217;t care less that they didn&#8217;t greet me &#8212; <strong>all I wanted was to make money.</strong></p><p>When I ran out of yards to mow on the edge of the neighborhood, I jumped from gardening into recycling glass and newspaper. I walked the whole neighborhood knocking on the doors of neighbors and acquaintances, asking them to hand over their old bottles and papers &#8212; and honestly, business was booming. I piled up mountains of the stuff. My mom nearly threw me out of the house over the stacks of sacks I had piling up in the living room. I was a recycling tycoon.</p><p>At the tender age of 15 I made the leap to my first official storefront: a snack bar inside a well-known sports arena in the city, where I sold sodas and snacks to the fans who came to watch their athletes on weekends. I lasted three years there &#8212; until they shut me down for being a minor and a &#8220;risk&#8221; to the sports organization. At least that was the excuse for handing my business over to some other character.</p><p>From selling sodas, my entrepreneurial curiosity took another turn. During my university days I opened a carpentry shop in my house&#8217;s garage, inspired by a friend (bless his soul) who trained me in the art of wood framing. That&#8217;s where one of my great passions was born: furniture design. But the framing days were so long and exhausting that they crashed straight into my studies, so I had to close the workshop and shelve that adventure for a while.</p><p>During my days as a framer-carpenter I met a Panamanian businessman who imported all-terrain bikes from China. This kind of bike was just starting to trend <em>(weak signals)</em>, which struck me as interesting. So <strong>I sank all my savings into bringing those bikes in from Panama</strong>, and I sold hundreds of them in just a couple of years. But the dream of becoming a big bike importer got cut short when a well-known businessman from Antioquia, with stores all over the country, went straight to my supplier to buy bikes and demanded market exclusivity. That day, my adventure in that industry was over.</p><p>As a university student I joined the underwater activities club at the Universidad Nacional in Medell&#237;n to practice another of my great passions: diving. Once again I blew what little savings I had left on the adventure. I got so hooked that, guided by a great friend and mentor, I traveled to the United States to certify as a dive instructor at a famous institute down in South Florida. I went from feeling like <em>Cochise Rodr&#237;guez</em> to a homegrown <em>Jacques Cousteau</em>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png" width="1456" height="794" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:794,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!aB3i!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff079a395-3fbf-4276-83fe-b4ed5a4709b7_2816x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>I landed in Miami for the first time at the ripe old age of 25, with a suitcase packed full of dreams. And honestly, <strong>the United States blew my mind</strong>: this country opened the doors of the world to me. I did everything legally to survive and earn my dive-instructor license. In that market I felt that the barriers I&#8217;d once hit in Colombia simply didn&#8217;t exist here. Back home, building a company was like racing cars in <em>NASCAR</em>; but in this country I had the whole track to myself. I never got a &#8220;no&#8221; or a &#8220;can&#8217;t be done&#8221; from the businesspeople who gave me the chance to work with them &#8212; on the contrary, every time I spotted a business opportunity, the answer was &#8220;go for it!&#8221; I spent a couple of years there, mostly dedicated to studying.</p><p>Once I got my instructor certification, I decided to head back to Colombia with the dream of opening my first dive school. And so it happened &#8212; <strong>against all odds, with no capital, no godfathers, and a whole lot of guts</strong> &#8212; <em>Acqualand</em> was born, the first dive school in the El Poblado neighborhood of Medell&#237;n. But as usual, the critics showed up right on cue. The old guard of Medell&#237;n diving said they&#8217;d made me an instructor in six months, that I had no experience; they blocked my access to the pools, wouldn&#8217;t fill my tanks &#8212; in short, so many hoops to jump through that today they&#8217;re just anecdotes. Those were years of hard work and also of prosperity. Diving gave me everything: money, great friends, and even the family I have today. I became a &#8220;quasi-surfer&#8221; with rich-guy airs; as a dive instructor I met Colombia&#8217;s most powerful people, on all sides of the fence. But over time, after so much abundance, I felt something was missing. I didn&#8217;t want to spend my golden years teaching diving, so I decided to fill that void with more academia.</p><p>I sold everything I owned &#8212; car, gear &#8212; and even ended a marriage that wasn&#8217;t making me happy, and I enrolled at the Universidad de Antioquia to study Anthropology. The Social Sciences knocked me flat on my belly and opened up a world of new possibilities. Along those lines, and together with two great friends (former dive students), I founded my first tech company, way back in the dawn of the so-called dot-com bubble: <em>Ideas Avanzadas</em>. Inspired by the analytical models of anthropology, we built <em>grite.com</em>, the first online survey service, in 1999 &#8212; when <em>SurveyMonkey</em> wasn&#8217;t even a glimmer in anyone&#8217;s eye.</p><p>We made hundreds of pitches to investors, but no incubator believed in us, no fund cared. Nobody would bet a peso on the project, because running online surveys in 1999 went against the <em>status quo</em>. We were 10 years ahead of the industry &#8212; at the time we were the best example of what <em>weak signals</em> really mean.</p><p>In 2001 I requested a meeting with the CEO of <em>AOL/DMS (America Online &#8212; Digital Marketing Services)</em> and flew to Dallas to make my first investor pitch abroad. I traveled with my current wife, the bedrock and emotional <em>sponsor</em> of my business adventures. I have to confess that before walking into the room I was scared out of my mind, a bit poisoned by all the rejection the idea had racked up in Colombia. But the surprise couldn&#8217;t have been bigger: I found an audience that listened with infinite attention and respect. Sure, they asked the tough questions &#8212; but always in a warm tone. That day I walked out of the <em>AOL</em> boardroom with an <em>LOI</em> (letter of intent) to acquire 40% of <em>Ideas Avanzadas &#8212; IA</em> and use it as the spearhead to expand <em>DMS</em> across <em>LATAM</em>. The celebration was short-lived, because that same week the Twin Towers attacks happened and the deal went to hell for a while.</p><p>After battling for months, we managed to salvage the initiative, but the operation to acquire a piece of <em>IA</em> ended up moving to Bogot&#225;, since AOL had bought a well-known media outlet in the capital. To this day, in the year 2026, we&#8217;re still waiting for our dear Colombian partners to pay us our stake in the deal.</p><p><em>IA</em> was my first serious setback. I was left with nothing &#8212; as we say in Medell&#237;n, we were left riding on the rims. Shortly after such a wipeout, a security company offered me a job in Brazil, and of course I took it. I saw the chance to work a couple of years in that country of wonderful culture and nature &#8212; until the entrepreneurship bug bit me again.</p><p>I split off from that company and opened up a franchise for a North American industrial degreaser company in S&#227;o Paulo, alongside three local partners &#8212; <em>huge</em> mistake. <strong>If building a company in Colombia is hard, in Brazil it&#8217;s practically impossible.</strong> I spent two years fighting against corruption, bureaucracy, and institutions that simply don&#8217;t function. There I understood that Brazil is really two countries: the country of the businesspeople and the country of the politicians. Two polar opposites &#8212; and Colombia, sadly, isn&#8217;t far off from the same comparison.</p><p>Once again I was left riding on the rims, and I had to scrape together frequent-flyer miles just to get back home&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png" width="1456" height="1040" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1040,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dKt0!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa0077a2d-14e3-4cde-96bf-07dd6c934f4d_2420x1728.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Self-esteem in pieces but with <strong>the heart of a founder intact, I pressed on</strong>. In 2009 I took the leap again, riding the boom in &#8220;minute selling&#8221; (yes &#8212; the business of renting out a phone to make calls).</p><p>I noticed that the practice was getting more and more popular (a weak signal <em>in crescendo</em>), and I remembered that back in S&#227;o Paulo I&#8217;d met the CEO of a South African company that specialized in formalizing that exact business. I made some calls, set up meetings, and flew to <em>Cape Town</em> to meet with representatives of the owners &#8212; a company belonging to the <em>De Beers</em> family, one of the biggest players in the world&#8217;s diamond business. I came back to Colombia with the first license to operate community mobile telephony (truth is, they gave me a license for five countries). <em>Psitek Andina</em> was born &#8212; or <em>Red Minuto</em>, as it would later be known in the market. On paper, it was the perfect business.</p><p>But having a beautiful business on paper is one thing, and operating it is another. When it came time to launch operations, things turned ugly fast. The Colombian State&#8217;s bureaucratic hurdles for the business were brutal. The red tape was endless: you need a license for a cable, you have to certify a device, you have to pull a permit for an antenna, you have to pay a stamp fee, the seal has to come recommended, the lawyer has to review the commas, and on and on.</p><p><em>Red Minuto</em> was the country&#8217;s first <em><strong>MVNO</strong></em>, and to push the idea forward I met with ministers, senators, business leaders, and even the lady who served the coffee in those institutions. But the answer everyone was really fishing for, in unison, was: <em>&#8220;and what&#8217;s in it for me?&#8221;</em> &#8212; the famous WIIFM.</p><p>One of the challenges we had to solve was presenting an <em>MVP &#8212; Minimum Viable Product</em>, so we set up a small Data Center in downtown Medell&#237;n, in an office my in-laws lent me across from the Camino Real Shopping Center. I went into debt down to the last available cent on my credit cards, on top of the loans from a few stubborn souls who trusted me. I knocked on every door of the country&#8217;s cellphone operators. But nobody seemed interested; many executives at those companies said my proposal would kill calling cards (which, by the way, were already dead by then). But through sheer insisting, resisting, and persisting, a Spanish executive at Movistar they called Chemas understood the signals of the business and believed in it from day one. Thank you, Chemas, wherever you are!</p><p>So we started running tests. We installed stations in Medell&#237;n and Bogot&#225;. The technology worked perfectly. We had a market opportunity worth 35 million dollars in the first year alone. But for every step forward, we took two steps back. Until we hit the impassable roadblock: interconnection prices and the near-monopolistic market dominance of Claro. The rates we had with that company forced us to work at a virtual loss, and only Claro could fix it. After hundreds of hours of endless lobbying, they gave us the classic line: <em>&#8220;don&#8217;t call us, we&#8217;ll call you.&#8221;</em> We waited a year and a half for the call that never came. <em>Red Minuto</em> had to shut down.</p><p>Once again, with our tails between our legs, we liquidated what little was left to pay off the debts.</p><p>Not a dime in my pocket, and the only things I had left were my education and my experience as a founder.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z3Va!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F5c168dc1-0a55-446c-9630-d4dbda730929_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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August is winter at those latitudes, and only a handful of crazies would think to dive in that cold &#8212; so on the boat there were just two lunatics: me and a Japanese guy who didn&#8217;t mutter a single word on the way out. We reached the dive site, geared up, and got in the water, and before long two enormous great whites showed up, each the size of a bus. It was a fascinating experience.</p><p>Coming out of the water, the once-mute Japanese man transformed into a chatterbox. He started talking nonstop the whole ride back, like a man who&#8217;d just been mugged. Between laughs he told me he was the CEO of <em>Microsoft Research</em>. I thought: &#8220;If the sharks had eaten him, it would&#8217;ve been on every news channel. Me, on the other hand &#8212; nobody would&#8217;ve even missed me.&#8221;</p><p>I did the same and told him I was an anthropologist, that I worked in technology, and that I was in South Africa on a business trip. When we got to port we went for food and a few beers, striking up a friendship that still lasts to this day. Between one beer and the next, he told me: &#8220;if you ever feel like working for Microsoft, get in touch &#8212; I can throw some projects your way.&#8221;</p><p>So, after the failure of <em><strong>Red Minuto</strong></em>, I called my friend Kentaro. And that&#8217;s how <em><strong>Xcouter</strong></em> was born, the company that has put food on my table ever since.</p><p>But why drag all this narration into the presentation? The goal is one and only one: to show you there&#8217;s no such thing as the crybaby founder, the victim, the way some people like to paint it. When you play the victim, you tend to pin the blame for your failures on everyone else &#8212; and if there&#8217;s one thing I&#8217;m clear on after decades of building companies, it&#8217;s that all my defeats were my own responsibility. And despite everything I suffered, I never felt like a loser; I always turned what I learned into working capital. Now, that it&#8217;s easier to build a business in some places than in others is a plain fist-to-the-table truth that can&#8217;t be denied. Looking for the best conditions to develop your creativity and enterprise isn&#8217;t a matter of being a crybaby or not &#8212; it&#8217;s a matter of survival.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KrE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F06b086bd-a011-462f-911e-d6a45232cd00_2600x1600.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7KrE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F06b086bd-a011-462f-911e-d6a45232cd00_2600x1600.png 424w, 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>What the Data Says</strong></h3><p>Colombia is hard for founders <strong>not because it lacks entrepreneurial spirit</strong>, but because <strong>the country makes the jump from starting a business to scaling it unusually complex</strong>.</p><p>The <em>GEM</em> reports show that in 2023 nearly one in four adults in Colombia was starting or running a new business, but only one in 30 had a consolidated company. <em>GEM</em> points out that consolidating a company means clearing <em><strong>&#8220;serious obstacles.&#8221;</strong></em> The score for the entrepreneurial environment fell to 4.1 (ranked 37th of 49), and <em>WIPO</em> placed Colombia 61st in the 2024 Global Innovation Index.</p><p><strong>The central point is clear: Colombia generates founders; the United States generates scale.</strong> Colombia has energy. The United States has deep capital, innovation infrastructure, and a system that turns <em>startups</em> into durable companies.</p><p><strong>Colombia&#8217;s problem is systemic.</strong> If you want, call me a <em>systemic crybaby</em>.</p><p><strong>The main roadblocks for founders in Colombia</strong></p><p><em><strong>Informality</strong></em>: 56% of employment and 77% of microbusinesses operate informally (OECD 2019&#8211;2022). The formal ones compete at a disadvantage.</p><p><em><strong>High, complex tax burden</strong></em>: A corporate rate of 35% (vs. the 23% OECD average).</p><p><em><strong>Financing gap</strong></em>: Only 15.3% of microbusinesses can access credit.</p><p><em><strong>Administrative burden</strong></em>: The digital one-stop window still doesn&#8217;t cover the whole country.</p><p><em><strong>Infrastructure and logistics</strong></em>: High costs that make scaling difficult.</p><p><em><strong>Weak entrepreneurial education</strong></em>: The worst-rated in <em>GEM</em>. Necessity-driven entrepreneurship dominates.</p><p><strong>Why is it harder to build a company in Colombia than in the U.S.?</strong></p><p>In the United States the challenge is <strong>to compete and scale</strong>. <strong>In Colombia the challenge is to survive the system + compete + scale.</strong></p><p><strong>Why are some of us founders crybabies?</strong></p><p><strong>It&#8217;s not for lack of drive.</strong> It&#8217;s because of everything the system lacks to turn that drive into big companies that export and generate quality jobs.</p><p>In my humble opinion as a <em>crybaby founder</em>, I believe <strong>Colombia doesn&#8217;t need more incentives to launch startups, more people making jams and pickles.</strong> <strong>It needs to redesign the system so companies can emerge on solid foundations that survive and can scale.</strong></p><p><strong>The root problem is the systemic friction accumulated over decades:</strong> you maximize the entry of new businesses, but you penalize their growth. The Colombian company-building system <strong>lets you be born, but the very conditions of that system won&#8217;t let you fly.</strong></p><p>To change this, we have to keep crying until the establishment focuses on building at least the following <strong>strategic levers</strong>:</p><p><strong>Smart formalization (attacking the root)</strong></p><p><em>A progressive, phased tax regime</em> (a &#8220;<em>startup tax ladder</em>&#8220;): minimal burden for the first 2 years and a gradual increase afterward.</p><p><strong>Impact</strong>: more early formalization and less unfair competition.</p><p><strong>Credit as infrastructure</strong></p><p><em>Alternative scoring</em> based on real data, <em>massive guarantee funds</em>, and <em>open APIs</em> for <em>fintechs</em>.</p><p><strong>Impact</strong>: democratize credit and shrink the valley of death.</p><p><strong>Radical simplification of the operating system</strong></p><p><em>A national one-stop window</em>, 100% digital, that actually works in every municipality. A single flow for registration, taxes, and social security.</p><p><strong>Impact</strong>: drastically cut the time and cost of formalization.</p><p><strong>Infrastructure to scale</strong></p><p><em>Priority logistics corridors</em>, temporary subsidies for exporting SMEs, and digitization of supply chains.</p><p><strong>Impact</strong>: reduce costs and enable regional and international expansion.</p><p><strong>Re-engineering entrepreneurial talent</strong></p><p><em>Mandatory entrepreneurial education</em> starting in school, <em>scale-up programs</em> (not just incubation), and real alliances between universities and industry.</p><p><strong>Impact</strong>: shift from necessity-driven entrepreneurship to high-value entrepreneurship, innovation, and exports.</p><p>Now, comparing Colombia to the United States is a bit unfair and lopsided. To make the debate more balanced, let&#8217;s look at the neighborhood to see how we stack up against our backyard competitors. I invite you to study the following table:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png" width="1220" height="702" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:702,&quot;width&quot;:1220,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Z6jC!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F44853b53-67bd-4e5e-bc68-486d3bde8a15_1220x702.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>LATAM: Plenty of Energy, Little Conversion</strong></h3><p>The table above reveals something that, for those of us who&#8217;ve lived entrepreneurship in the region, is no surprise &#8212; but it does expose structural problems. <em><strong>LATAM doesn&#8217;t have an entrepreneurship problem; it has a problem turning entrepreneurship into scalable companies.</strong></em></p><p>Colombia (~25% TEA), Chile (~30%), Brazil (&gt;25%), and Peru all post high indicators, showing a clear pattern: <strong>the region produces founders en masse.</strong> This is no trivial matter. From my anthropological perspective, the data is telling me about highly adaptive societies, where the individual responds to uncertainty with their own initiative. It&#8217;s what <em>Harari</em> would call a cultural capacity to reorganize reality in the face of scarcity.</p><p>But here&#8217;s the fracture that brings the tears to my eyes: <strong>high creation doesn&#8217;t mean high consolidation.</strong></p><p>Colombia, for example, combines a high TEA with a low innovation index (61st) &#8212; lots of jam factories and very few disruptive innovation efforts. The reading is clear: <em>high activity, low consolidation</em>. Brazil replicates the pattern: lots of activity, a weak ecosystem. Peru shows more formalization, but falls even further in innovation (75th). Mexico, on the other hand, can&#8217;t even sustain entrepreneurial dynamism.</p><p>This leads us to a first conclusion. <em><strong>LATAM is a factory of attempts, not of consolidated results &#8212; and that&#8217;s where we differ from the United States.</strong></em></p><h3><strong>Chile: The Relative Exception</strong></h3><p>Chile shows up as the most balanced system in the region. It keeps a high TEA while improving its position in innovation (51st) and in the quality of its ecosystem. This doesn&#8217;t mean Chile has solved the problem, but it has advanced on something critical: <strong>reducing systemic friction.</strong></p><p>Programs like <em>Start-Up Chile</em>, clearer regulatory frameworks, and better access to capital have kept entrepreneurship from staying stuck at mere intention. Chile doesn&#8217;t have more talent than the rest of LATAM. <strong>It has better conditions for that talent to survive.</strong></p><h3><strong>The United States: The Structural Contrast</strong></h3><p>The contrast with the United States is brutal and revealing. A lower TEA (19%), but:</p><p>A better GEM environment (4.8 / 16)</p><p>Top 3 in global innovation</p><p><strong>Fewer founders, but more real companies, more scaling&#8230;</strong> This shatters <em>LATAM&#8217;s</em> central myth: <strong>the one that says we need more people starting businesses.</strong></p><p>The truth is no, we don&#8217;t need more people starting businesses. <strong>We need better systems to scale the entrepreneurship that already sprouts up from under the rocks &#8212; and if that makes us crybabies, then I&#8217;ll keep crying until the people in charge of policy finally get the message.</strong></p><p>The United States doesn&#8217;t beat us because its people try harder, but because the system converts better &#8212; <em>capisce!</em></p><p>Capital, infrastructure, a homogeneous market, functional institutions&#8230; everything converges on a single point: <strong>lowering the cost and friction of scaling.</strong></p><h3><strong>The Crybaby Paradox</strong></h3><p>If we connect all the dots, a deep paradox emerges: <strong>LATAM is one of the most entrepreneurial regions in the world&#8230; and at the same time one of the least efficient at creating durable companies.</strong></p><p>This produces an invisible but critical phenomenon:</p><p>High human burnout</p><p>Low structural productivity</p><p>Fragmented innovation</p><p>Talent flight (as my own story proves)</p><p>Through <em>Toffler&#8217;s</em> logic, LATAM is trapped between two waves:</p><p>An incomplete industrial economy</p><p>A poorly implemented knowledge economy</p><p>And in that in-between space, the founder is left exposed.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!znq7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf1ae3ac-323e-410e-bc1e-3b67e7d2730a_2816x1536.png" 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Founders spring up in every corner of the country. There&#8217;s grit, creativity, and drive to spare. The problem isn&#8217;t the people. <strong>The problem is the system</strong>: a system designed to let you be born, but not to let you fly. A system that rewards informality, punishes growth, drowns you in paperwork, and forces you to survive instead of scale.</p><p>I&#8217;ve lived in my own flesh what the data from <em>GEM</em>, the <em>OECD</em>, and <em>WIPO</em> says. I&#8217;ve felt informality in my own pockets &#8212; the lack of credit, the bureaucracy, and the &#8220;what&#8217;s in it for me.&#8221; And yes, I&#8217;ve also seen what happens when you cross the border: suddenly the same effort pays off ten times more. Not because I&#8217;m smarter, but because the ecosystem lets you breathe.</p><p><strong>This isn&#8217;t about abandoning Colombia.</strong> It&#8217;s about refusing to romanticize a system that punishes anyone who wants to grow. We don&#8217;t need more motivational speeches or more incubators celebrating pretty failure. We need to <strong>change the rules of the game</strong>: smart formalization, real credit, radical simplification, infrastructure to scale, and education that produces high-value founders, not just survivors.</p><p>If Colombia wants to stop exporting talent and start retaining it, the change can&#8217;t be cosmetic. It has to be structural. Because as long as we keep maximizing the entry of new businesses and penalizing their growth, we&#8217;ll keep producing microbusinesses that never take off and founders who, sooner or later, end up looking abroad.</p><p>I&#8217;ve already made my decision. <strong>I left so I could fly.</strong> But I still believe, with all the grit I have left, that Colombia can be a great country to build in. All that&#8217;s missing is for the system to stop putting up roadblocks and start giving us wings.</p><p>To those who stay and keep fighting from the inside: respect and admiration.</p><p>To those who, like me, chose to look for other horizons: may it go well for us &#8212; but may we never lose the hope of one day seeing a Colombia where we don&#8217;t have to choose between staying and growing.</p><p><strong>The future isn&#8217;t cried into being. It&#8217;s built with less speech and more sweat.</strong> May we build it together, without so much systemic weeping.</p><h4>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ll keep singing to the sun like the cicada&#8230; so many times they killed me, so many times I died, yet here I am rising again, giving thanks to misfortune and to the dagger-wielding hand that killed me so badly it kept me singing!</h4><h4>**Sources</h4><p>SUPPORTING ARCHITECTURE OF THE ANALYSIS**</p><h5>1. Empirical Core &#8212; Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (Reality Base)</h5><p><em>(This is where the hard evidence lives. What isn&#8217;t up for debate gets measured.)</em></p><p><strong>Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM)</strong></p><p>Colombia Profile</p><p><a href="https://www.gemconsortium.org/country-profile/52">https://www.gemconsortium.org/country-profile/52</a></p><p><strong>Data used:</strong></p><p>Total early-stage entrepreneurial activity rate (<em>TEA</em>), proportion of established businesses, motivation (<em>necessity vs. opportunity</em>), ecosystem score (<em>EFC</em>), global GEM ranking</p><p>United States Profile</p><p><a href="https://www.gemconsortium.org/country-profile/122">https://www.gemconsortium.org/country-profile/122</a></p><p><strong>Data used:</strong></p><p>Entrepreneurial environment score (<em>EFC</em>), structural TEA comparison vs. Colombia</p><h5>2. Innovation System &#8212; Scaling Capacity (Future Indicator)</h5><p><em>(Here we measure who can turn energy into progress.)</em></p><p><strong>World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)</strong></p><p><em>Global Innovation Index 2024</em></p><p><a href="https://www.wipo.int/en/web/global-innovation-index/2024/index">https://www.wipo.int/en/web/global-innovation-index/2024/index</a></p><p><strong>Data used:</strong></p><p>Global innovation ranking (Colombia, U.S., Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Peru)</p><h5>3. Systemic Infrastructure &#8212; Structural Constraints (What Holds the System Back)</h5><p><em>(Here is the invisible friction: where good ideas go to die.)</em></p><p><strong>OECD &#8211; Economic Survey of Colombia 2024</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2024/09/oecd-economic-surveys-colombia-2024_7b382d76/a1a22cd6-en.pdf">https://www.oecd.org/content/dam/oecd/en/publications/reports/2024/09/oecd-economic-surveys-colombia-2024_7b382d76/a1a22cd6-en.pdf</a></p><p><strong>Data used:</strong></p><p>Labor informality (~56%), infrastructure quality, institutional environment, structural limitations of the ecosystem</p><p><strong>OECD &#8211; Financing SMEs and Entrepreneurs 2026 (Colombia)</strong></p><p><strong>Data used:</strong></p><p>Access to credit (micro vs. medium-sized companies), banking concentration (&gt;70%), business informality (~77% of microbusinesses)</p><h5>4. Business Dynamics &#8212; Conversion to Formality (The Scaling Pipeline)</h5><p><em>(Here we see whether the system converts intention into a real company.)</em></p><p><strong>World Bank &#8211; Entrepreneurship Database</strong> <em>(via Trading Economics)</em></p><p><a href="https://tradingeconomics.com/colombia/new-business-density">https://tradingeconomics.com/colombia/new-business-density</a></p><p><strong>Data used:</strong></p><p>New business density (Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru)</p><h5>5. Strategic Framework &#8212; Interpretation and Action (Cognitive Layer)</h5><p><em>(Here lives the &#8220;how to think,&#8221; not the &#8220;what to measure.&#8221;)</em></p><p><strong>McGrath, Michael E.</strong> &#8211; <em>Product Strategy for High Technology Companies</em></p><p>&#8594; Scalability, differentiation, and growth architecture</p><p><strong>Li, Charlene &amp; Solis, Brian</strong> &#8211; <em>The Seven Success Factors of Social Business Strategy</em></p><p>&#8594; Organizational alignment, execution, and resources</p><p><strong>McKeown, Max</strong> &#8211; <em>The Strategy Book</em></p><p>&#8594; Strategic fundamentals and environmental analysis</p><p><strong>Hillen, John</strong> &#8211; <em>The Strategy Dialogues</em></p><p>&#8594; Decision-making in complex contexts</p><p><strong>Godin, Seth</strong> &#8211; <em>This Is Strategy</em></p><p>&#8594; Systemic view of markets and positioning</p><p><strong>Whitehead, Jo</strong> &#8211; <em>What You Need to Know About Strategy</em></p><p>&#8594; Operational definition of strategy and decision logic</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5plw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3961e231-6676-4743-87d8-20f120d1a238_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5plw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3961e231-6676-4743-87d8-20f120d1a238_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5plw!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3961e231-6676-4743-87d8-20f120d1a238_1536x1024.png 848w, 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Day</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Learn to Read the Weak Signals]]></title><description><![CDATA[Take 4 | How to Build the Superpower of Anticipation in the Age of the Followers...]]></description><link>https://www.futopix.com/p/learn-to-read-the-weak-signals</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.futopix.com/p/learn-to-read-the-weak-signals</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[FUTOPIX | Gabriel Bedoya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:45:07 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kAbk!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F24953b85-fdc6-473c-9f7b-f6dbb6839fc0_2816x1536.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>A couple of years ago I heard <em><strong>Hern&#225;n Jaramillo</strong></em>, founder of <em><strong>10 AM</strong></em>, talking about <em><strong>Palantir</strong></em>. At first I barely paid attention; I figured the stock market wasn&#8217;t for me, I saw it as a thing for old-timers sipping coffee at the Bar Ganadero downtown in Medell&#237;n. Besides, I was deep in the weeds mining <em><strong>Bitcoin</strong></em> (<em><strong>BTC</strong></em>), and anything that wasn&#8217;t <em><strong>BTC</strong></em> struck me as a waste of time.</p><p>I remember it well: back then <em><strong>Palantir</strong></em> shares were trading somewhere between 16 and 20 dollars, a world away from the price of <em><strong>BTC</strong></em>. To my surprise, weeks later I started watching <em><strong>Palantir</strong></em> grow and grow like foam. While that was happening, I watched the members of the <em><strong>10 AM</strong></em> chat buy <em><strong>Tesla</strong></em> as if the shares were going to run out tomorrow. It was only when I saw <em><strong>Solana</strong></em> climb after the <em><strong>FTX</strong></em> disaster &#8212; rising from $6 to $20, $40, and on up to prices that had seemed unthinkable &#8212; that I finally started to wise up.</p><p><strong>With that scene playing out in the background, I began to ask myself: how do they do it? What do they see that I don&#8217;t? What do the people at </strong><em><strong>10 AM</strong></em><strong> have that lets them read which stocks or cryptos will grow over time until they hit returns of 10X or more?</strong></p><p>At the time it felt paradoxical. I make my living from <em><strong>futurism</strong></em> (<strong>foresight</strong>), and I found myself questioning it hard, because the &#8220;future&#8221; is the field of knowledge that puts food on my table. It seems only logical that, if I spend my days spotting emerging signals, I should know how these characters figure out where to put their money and pull off incredible returns.</p><p>For this and other reasons I wanted to get a closer look at how the minds of my conversation partners actually work, so I set myself the task of going a little deeper into the craft of learning to read the signals.</p><p><strong>Futurism has long been thought of as the disciplined application of resources toward clearly defined goals under conditions of relative stability.</strong> Yet in an era defined by accelerating technological change, shifting consumer behavior, and systemic uncertainty, <strong>the traditional model is simply not enough</strong>. The future no longer arrives as a linear extension of the past; on the contrary, <strong>it emerges discontinuously</strong>, often out of phenomena that at first look insignificant, fragmented, even irrelevant.</p><p><strong>These early, invisible, ambiguous, and usually unnoticed manifestations of change are what some experts call &#8220;</strong><em><strong>Weak Signals</strong></em><strong>.&#8221;</strong> Please don&#8217;t get confused: <em>weak signals</em> are not trends, they are not fully formed or consolidated opportunities or threats. On the contrary, <strong>they are the precursors of transformation</strong>, the earliest detectable indicators of systemic variation, hiding under the structural rug of markets, technology, and society.</p><p>In this <strong>FUTOPIX</strong> we&#8217;ll explore the concept of <em><strong>&#8220;Weak Signals&#8221;</strong></em> in a little more depth, to place it squarely within the field of strategy. That&#8217;s why it matters to understand that <strong>weak signals are not a peripheral capability but a core function of the strategist</strong>; once you learn to spot and develop them, they become a source for decision-making and for building competitive advantage.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xxOd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea8e1e12-958f-4fd4-91ab-61a7960758c1_2730x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xxOd!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fea8e1e12-958f-4fd4-91ab-61a7960758c1_2730x1536.png 424w, 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Unlike trends &#8212; which are visible, measurable, and widely known &#8212; <strong>weak signals exist in a state of pre-consensus</strong>. They have not been validated by large-scale data, nor are they backed by a dominant narrative.</p><p><strong>Their position in the life cycle of change is critical.</strong> Transformations rarely emerge fully formed. Instead, they evolve in stages. At first, signals show up as isolated anomalies, unexpected consumer behaviors, applications at the bleeding edge of technology, or niche cultural shifts.</p><p><strong>For example</strong>, years ago the growing use of apps like <em>Musical.ly</em> (which later became <em>TikTok</em>) looked like teenagers goofing around lip-syncing to songs; for the average person it was just irrelevant noise. Take another case: the first experiments with plant-based proteins in food niches around 2015 looked like a marginal fad, but they were announcing the massive transformation of the food industry. In crypto, the resurgence of <em><strong>Solana</strong></em> right after the collapse of <em><strong>FTX</strong></em> &#8212; when few people trusted any alternative to <em><strong>Ethereum</strong></em> &#8212; was a <em>weak signal</em> that many of us ignored.</p><p><strong>Weak signals are something like the foam on a beer: they keep rising as the patterns that form them gain coherence, evolving until they turn into trends that will eventually reconfigure industries and write new rules for the market.</strong> The strategic implication is clear: <strong>by the time a trend is widely recognized, the window to gain an edge has already closed</strong>.</p><p><strong>Weak signals, therefore, occupy the most valuable and most challenging stage of this progression.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QHnA!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08ce266d-cc2f-4571-aad8-aa6051d969f8_2730x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QHnA!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08ce266d-cc2f-4571-aad8-aa6051d969f8_2730x1536.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QHnA!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08ce266d-cc2f-4571-aad8-aa6051d969f8_2730x1536.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QHnA!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F08ce266d-cc2f-4571-aad8-aa6051d969f8_2730x1536.png 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Traditionally, strategic planning tries to reduce uncertainty by forecasting outcomes and committing resources accordingly. <em>Weak signals</em>, by contrast, embrace uncertainty as a source of opportunity. They let us identify emerging possibilities before they take definite shape, and in doing so, create options instead of commitments. <strong>It&#8217;s precisely this shift in logic &#8212; from reducing uncertainty to operating within it &#8212; that redefines the very nature of strategy.</strong></p><p>In high-uncertainty environments, the strategic goal stops being prediction and becomes positioning. When we lean only on established data and validated trends, we&#8217;re effectively competing in a known game, where advantages are incremental and often fleeting. <strong>But when we decide to operate on </strong><em><strong>weak signals</strong></em><strong>, we enter a different territory</strong>, one where the edge doesn&#8217;t come from executing better, but from seeing sooner. That&#8217;s where we gain access to <em>&#8220;privileged insights,&#8221;</em> born from understanding emerging dynamics that haven&#8217;t yet been shared or widely broadcast.</p><p>Such <em>insights</em> aren&#8217;t abstract; they translate into concrete advantages within the strategic game. <strong>From that anticipatory reading of the system</strong>, we unlock three forms of advantage: timing advantages, by acting before others (like the people who bought <em>Palantir or Tesla</em> early); narrative advantages, by shaping emerging markets before any consensus exists; and capital efficiencies, by investing little in the early stages through controlled experimentation rather than late, expensive commitments.</p><p>Despite the importance of these signals and the advantages they unlock, we have to admit that, as strategists, we sometimes fail to detect them and, above all, to act on them. <strong>Here is the central tension of the problem: understanding the value of </strong><em><strong>weak signals</strong></em><strong> doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean knowing how to operate them.</strong> These failures aren&#8217;t incidental; they&#8217;re rooted in our mental architecture, in the way we process information, and in the cultural frames from which we make decisions. The good news is that these aren&#8217;t fixed limitations but trainable capabilities, and so they can be reshaped if we approach them with intention (this is what some people at 10 AM do very well).</p><p>Cognitively, we tend to operate under a bias toward certainty. Our decision-making processes prioritize data that is measurable, validated, and aligned with existing models, because that reduces perceived risk. <strong>This is exactly where the friction with </strong><em><strong>weak signals</strong></em><strong> arises</strong>, because they, by definition, meet none of those criteria. They emerge in uncertainty, they live in the territory of the anecdotal, and they&#8217;re hard to quantify. Precisely for that reason, our minds discard them easily &#8212; not because they lack value, but because they don&#8217;t fit the filters we&#8217;ve been trained to make decisions with.</p><p>Structurally, this cognitive limitation gets amplified. We tend to organize information into compartments, creating mental silos that limit our ability to connect scattered signals. <strong>What we fail to integrate, we cannot interpret</strong>, and what we don&#8217;t interpret, we cannot act on. What shows up as isolated noise rarely becomes a pattern unless there&#8217;s a conscious effort to integrate it.</p><p>Culturally, on top of that, we tend to reward execution over exploration. 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even at low levels &#8212; is often the first indicator of emerging change in the system.</strong></p><p><strong>Interpretation:</strong> This is analyzing the trajectory, the potential impact, and the time horizon of the <em>weak signals</em> in order to build informed hypotheses from them.</p><p><strong>Translation:</strong> This is about turning <em>weak signals</em> into concrete actions for our own personal strategy.</p><p><strong>Activation:</strong> We turn the <em>insights</em> into small, effective, reversible actions. <strong>The goal is to learn to adapt, not to commit prematurely.</strong></p><h5><strong>Operationalizing </strong><em><strong>Weak Signals</strong></em></h5><p><strong>For </strong><em><strong>weak signals</strong></em><strong> to become a personal skill, we have to build them into our way of life instead of treating them as occasional initiatives.</strong> That requires dedicated structures, processes, and concrete practices woven into our daily routine.</p><p>It&#8217;s worth keeping in mind that to enter <em>signal-hunter</em> mode, you have to switch on the mental habits your mind needs to detect and act on <em>weak signals</em>. These mental habits should run with a certain degree of autonomy, free from the immediate pressure of hitting metrics, and they should draw on diverse perspectives &#8212; from strategic thinking to technological affinity to reading the context.</p><p>Regularly reviewing the information we consume is essential to keep the momentum and make sure the signals surface; the art of detecting <em>weak signals</em> is above all a process of watching your environment. Unlike traditional strategic planning cycles (annual or quarterly), <em>weak signals</em> demand higher-frequency monitoring: weekly or biweekly reviews to catch shifts and respond dynamically according to our interests.</p><p>We have to reward curiosity, experimentation, and the generation of <em>insights</em> as the engines of this process, even knowing that signals often come from uncertain terrain. Without that internal backing, it&#8217;s impossible to engage in detection at all, because we&#8217;ll perceive it as risky and unproductive.</p><p>Personal leadership plays a critical role here: we ourselves have to actively support and legitimize the exploration of <em>weak signals</em>. Becoming a signal hunter is a strategic asset.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png" width="1456" height="793" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/c42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:793,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Nt-I!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc42b4006-ddc2-4063-bfff-ab9afc31d659_2760x1504.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>The Payoff</strong></h3><p>When we truly develop the ability to read <em>weak signals</em>, we stop reacting to trends and become someone able to anticipate the system&#8217;s moves before they become obvious. But what really changes isn&#8217;t just our position in the market &#8212; <strong>it&#8217;s the way we inhabit reality</strong>. We stop depending on consensus, we stop waiting for validation, we stop moving only once everyone else has already arrived. We start operating in a different territory, a territory where the future doesn&#8217;t yet have a name, but already has a direction.</p><p>That&#8217;s where a difference appears that is anything but minor: <strong>not everyone in the system is playing the same game</strong>. Most people observe, confirm, and execute; a few detect, interpret, and act. The first group optimizes what already exists, the second takes part in building what&#8217;s emerging. <strong>Some arrive safe, others arrive early.</strong></p><p>In today&#8217;s economy &#8212; defined by speed, information overload, and constant disruption &#8212; <strong>the ability to hunt </strong><em><strong>weak signals</strong></em><strong> stops being an intellectual curiosity and becomes a critical competency</strong>. It&#8217;s no longer enough to be informed, no longer enough to understand trends, no longer enough to execute well. <strong>What makes the difference is the ability to see sooner, to hold ambiguity without collapsing, and to act without any guarantee.</strong></p><p>Because there&#8217;s an uncomfortable truth here that few are willing to accept: <strong>the future doesn&#8217;t reward whoever understands first, it rewards whoever moves first</strong>. Moving first means discomfort, it means doubt, it means exposing yourself without a net. It means operating without the backing of consensus, without clear metrics, without an established narrative. <strong>It means thinking and acting like a strategist, not like a follower.</strong></p><p>This is where the skill of <em>hunting weak signals</em> stops being optional. <strong>Not knowing how to read those signals in this environment isn&#8217;t a technical limitation, it&#8217;s a systemic vulnerability</strong>. It&#8217;s being trapped in cycles of reaction, depending on late decisions, competing in spaces where the advantage has already been captured by someone else. In other words, it&#8217;s always playing from behind &#8212; and from back there, it&#8217;s hard to reach 10X returns.</p><h5><strong>See Before You Act</strong></h5><p>Finally, I&#8217;d like to say that strategizing isn&#8217;t simply choosing where to compete, it&#8217;s understanding the evolving landscape in which we make decisions before that landscape is obvious to everyone. <em>Weak signals</em> are the earliest and most fragile expression of that system in transformation. They&#8217;re incomplete, ambiguous, often uncomfortable &#8212; but that&#8217;s precisely why they hold the greatest potential for advantage. <strong>Learning to detect them and, above all, to act on them is moving from reaction toward anticipation</strong>, it&#8217;s training a sensitivity that doesn&#8217;t rest on certainty, but on attention.</p><p>Because seeing <em>weak signals</em> isn&#8217;t a technical act, it&#8217;s an act of perceptual discipline. It&#8217;s consciously deciding to observe what others discard, to connect what looks unconnected, and to hold what doesn&#8217;t yet have form. <strong>It&#8217;s training the eye until the noise begins to reveal the structure.</strong></p><p>In the end, our job as strategists isn&#8217;t to respond to change, it&#8217;s to recognize it before it becomes obvious, and &#8212; more importantly still &#8212; to act while there isn&#8217;t yet enough evidence to justify acting. Because in that space, between what is barely emerging and what has yet to be validated, is where real advantages are built; this is the space where the 10X gets made.</p><p><em>Weak signals</em> don&#8217;t arrive as certainties, they arrive as discomfort, as a persistent hunch, as patterns that don&#8217;t quite fit. <strong>They are the future in its rawest, quietest, and easiest-to-ignore state</strong>. For that very reason, they&#8217;re the terrain where the ones who follow are separated from the ones who lead, which is why they cost us so much. We often think we&#8217;re the ones leading, but reality sometimes shows us that we&#8217;re only followers &#8212; that someone else is the one carrying the lamp that opens the path.</p><p>The invitation isn&#8217;t to understand <em>weak signals</em>, it&#8217;s to train them. Not to study them, but to practice them. <strong>Start observing differently, start questioning the obvious, start paying attention to what doesn&#8217;t fit</strong>; open your eyes to spot the nerd tinkering in a garage, the one playing with AI, the one who can read a whole industry &#8212; because that&#8217;s where something is changing.</p><p>In an economy like today&#8217;s, where time compresses and advantage is captured early, the difference between those who survive, those who compete, and those who build the future isn&#8217;t in the quantity of information they consume, but in its quality and their ability to read what hasn&#8217;t been explained yet.</p><h4><strong>Hunting weak signals isn&#8217;t an advantage, it&#8217;s a way of thinking, it&#8217;s a discipline, and increasingly, it&#8217;s a skill of economic supremacy.</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Today I want to tackle a topic that&#8217;s trending: <em>&#8220;Context Engineering&#8221;</em> as <em>the centerpiece for building agentic AI architectures.</em> Before I plunge into the deep end, let me <strong>give the context some context.</strong></p><p>Most people who know me know I&#8217;m an anthropologist and a designer; those two disciplines are my great loves. What few people know is that before I ever set foot in anthropology, I studied Civil Engineering and Construction. And honestly, it&#8217;s not that I struggled there; I&#8217;ve always liked math, physics especially. But back in my engineering student days, the courses I loved most were the ones tied to the social sciences. Part of our training as engineers included a few courses in the history of construction, which were really just seminars in the history of architecture. In those classrooms I discovered that what truly fascinated me was form, design, and how human societies have interacted with it across history. Those experiences quietly laid the path that would connect anthropology and design.</p><p>During my early years as an anthropologist in training, I started my working life writing the training and service manuals for a well-known dial-up internet provider (back when you needed a phone line to get online, something the younger crowd will never quite grasp). <strong>From the hard chair of a call-center operator, I took my first steps toward understanding how much context matters in the world of technology.</strong> I caught so many earfuls of profanity from deeply pissed-off customers that many of those voices still echo in my memory. I owe all of them what I&#8217;ve built (thank you, sincerely).</p><p>So there, somewhere between training manuals, quality control, and customer service, I managed to fuse engineering, anthropology, and design. That blend let me translate customer needs into engineering requirements, and then turn those into better user experiences. And you know what? <strong>Over more than 25 years of professional experience, I&#8217;ve come to one conclusion: the key to solving most business problems has always lived in a perfect understanding of context.</strong> The angry customer of yesterday and the AI agent that hallucinates today are symptoms of the same disease: <strong>nobody took the trouble to map the context in detail.</strong></p><p>That&#8217;s why understanding it is a critical success factor in the development of any product or experience, whether we&#8217;re talking clothing, medical services, banking, transportation, web apps, transactional platforms, you name it. <strong>And when it comes to AI, robots, agents, LLMs, once again context is king.</strong></p><p>There&#8217;s a lot of talk today about <em>&#8220;Context Engineering.&#8221;</em> It&#8217;s an ambitious term, mostly because it sells. Slap the word &#8220;engineering&#8221; on anything and people instantly associate it with the hard sciences. But the truth is that <strong>context is more anthropology, sociology, psychology, and philosophy than it is engineering.</strong> I deeply respect the dissenting view, but context is less source code and more meaning. <strong>You can sit there and spew out all the code you want, but in the end, if that code doesn&#8217;t turn into meaning that drives adoption, it&#8217;s just more machine learning.</strong> For adoption to go mass-market, it has to leave the world of zeros and ones and enter the world of the social, and that <strong>only happens when adoption starts talking in street slang.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Ikj1!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F552f411a-f8b3-4a06-9bcd-610e9babd63d_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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can&#8217;t be thought of as something static; <strong>it&#8217;s a system of historical, cultural, economic, symbolic, relational, and temporal variables.</strong></p><p>To define it rigorously, context is <strong>&#8220;the dynamic configuration of the conditions, relationships, and meanings that shape a perception, an interpretation, and an action.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Seen through a systems lens, context operates as a <strong>filter</strong> (it decides what&#8217;s visible and what&#8217;s invisible), a <strong>constraint</strong> (what&#8217;s possible and what isn&#8217;t), a <strong>frame</strong> (what carries meaning and what doesn&#8217;t), and a <strong>force field</strong> (which behaviors get rewarded and which get punished).</p><p><em>Max McKeown</em> captures this when he says that context determines how a strategic issue fits into <strong>&#8220;a broader pattern of leadership in the situations we&#8217;ve been working through in pursuit of success.&#8221;</strong> In other words, <strong>strategy can&#8217;t exist independently of context; it&#8217;s embedded in it.</strong> <em>McKeown</em> nails the executive dimension of context, but as we&#8217;ll see, that&#8217;s just one of its many layers.</p><h4>The Anthropological Lens</h4><p>We anthropologists don&#8217;t see context as <strong>backdrop.</strong> For us, <strong>context is the primary object of analysis in our profession.</strong> We know that human behavior can&#8217;t be understood in isolation, as if we were studying it inside a lab. <strong>Context has to be interpreted through symbolic systems, cultural codes, and social structures.</strong> This is exactly where the &#8220;context engineers&#8221; fall short: their mistake isn&#8217;t technical, it&#8217;s a failure of depth. <strong>They model the surface and call it architecture.</strong></p><p>For anthropologists, context is a system of multi-vector layers, where <strong>each layer is itself another system.</strong> All of these layers are cultural in nature: <strong>economic, political, religious, technological systems, and so on.</strong> It&#8217;s more like a giant onion whose layers you peel back until you reach the core. Don&#8217;t confuse these cultural layers with the operational mapping layers we&#8217;ll get to later; both describe the same phenomenon but from different levels of analysis: <strong>one to understand it, the other to design it.</strong></p><p><em>Clifford Geertz,</em> one of the most influential anthropologists of the 20th century, defines culture as <strong>a vast web of meaning spun by human beings; context, in this sense, is the web.</strong> A wink and a blink are physically identical, yet we all know they&#8217;re not the same thing.</p><h4>The Strategic Lens</h4><p>If anthropology explains how meaning is built out of context, <strong>strategy explains how competitive advantages are built.</strong> From this angle, <strong>all strategy is contextual by definition.</strong> <em>Jo Whitehead</em> defines strategy as a quantum entity: <strong>it&#8217;s both objective and process,</strong> all happening at once. <strong>But the process can only exist in relation to context, that is... market conditions, the competitive frame, the organization&#8217;s internal capabilities, and so on.</strong></p><p><strong>Without context, strategy is just a form of abstraction.</strong> This is the second weakness of the &#8220;context engineers&#8221;: it&#8217;s not only that their contexts are abstract, it&#8217;s that they routinely ignore the power structures and market dynamics that condition every decision.</p><p>I&#8217;m fond of the concepts laid out by <em>Michael Porter</em>. Plenty of people call him a dinosaur, but I think much of his work still holds up, especially his model for mapping contexts, known as the five forces: <strong>competitive rivalry, the bargaining power of suppliers, the bargaining power of buyers, substitute products, and barriers to entry.</strong> These define the economic structure of a context.</p><p>Now, other experts like <em>Mintzberg, Godin, and McGrath</em> show up a little late to the party when they define context as <strong>an invisible, non-static system that co-evolves and persists, and therefore it&#8217;s strategy that must do the same</strong> (I say late because the anthropology classics had already worked this out).</p><p>In the world of tech systems, context includes rapid technological shifts, very short product life cycles, and accelerated competitive innovation dynamics. In short, in tech <strong>context is far too volatile, and it compresses in time on top of that, AI is certainly giving us proof of that.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png" width="1456" height="1665" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/f19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1665,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!R-uc!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff19e9ef2-1bcb-4691-830b-0dc829613f8d_1920x2196.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>Mapping the Context</h2><p>How are we doing so far? Tired of all the theory? Take a deep breath, we&#8217;re almost at the good part. We&#8217;re about to step into the topic that brought us here: <strong>how do you map a context in order to build experiences?</strong> Because despite AI&#8217;s apparent novelty, agents are, in essence, experiences, and every experience can be mapped.</p><p>Before I walk you through how to map a context, let me remind you that we anthropologists think in <em>&#8220;frameworks.&#8221;</em> Apologies in advance for the anglicism, but honestly I&#8217;ve never found the word in Spanish that captures everything a framework-based mode of thinking represents. <strong>If you read my last Substack, you&#8217;ll easily get that thinking in frameworks is basically a conceptual mode of thought where all possibilities are possible.</strong></p><p>In essence, context mapping is basically systems mapping. Methodologically, it helps to think of systems as if they were made of layers and levels of interaction (philosophically it gets a bit more complicated, but we&#8217;re not here to tie ourselves in knots). It&#8217;s worth stressing that no two systems are alike and that every system has its own specifics.</p><p>One important skill we anthropologists are trained for is <strong>pattern recognition.</strong> We&#8217;re always on the hunt for those recurring elements that let us make the system visible. What is it that repeats? Which patterns trace out a behavior? This is <strong>Layer #1</strong> of context: <strong>observable reality, or surface structure.</strong></p><p>I&#8217;ve watched plenty of &#8220;context engineers&#8221; jump straight to design, skipping contextual discovery entirely. The result is agents that produce hallucinations and serve up barely relevant information. Conclusion: <strong>agents that manufacture frustration.</strong> I know the path I&#8217;m proposing is longer than what most sources push on social media, but I guarantee you, with absolute certainty, that this model is <strong>&#8220;free of hallucinations and frustrations.&#8221;</strong></p><p>So take my advice and, as the <em>Supertramp</em> song goes... <strong>&#8220;take the long way home.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Let&#8217;s keep going. Write down everything you know about observable reality, leaning on <strong>market data, consumer behavior, trends, signals, and so on.</strong> Then move to identifying <strong>the structural context, Layer #2:</strong> which market forces hit it, what the economic constraints are, the power dynamics, the cost and pricing structures, and so forth. Then move toward <strong>Layer #3, the cultural context.</strong> This one is made of beliefs, social norms, narratives, and identity mechanisms. The next layer is symbolic context, <strong>Layer #4,</strong> composed of meaning systems, brand perceptions, and status signals. <strong>Layer #5 is temporal context;</strong> ask yourself what your project&#8217;s historical trajectory is and what its future expectations are. Finally, <strong>Layer #6 is hidden context;</strong> ask yourself which factors are actually driving the market, what its fear structures are, and what asymmetries are present, what&#8217;s invisible but decisive.</p><p>I know this sounds a bit overwhelming, and I&#8217;m certain you&#8217;re wondering, <strong>do I have to do all of that just to program a personal AI agent?</strong> My answer is <strong>NO.</strong> <strong>But the quality of the experience you want to create will depend on how much rigor you put into your context discovery.</strong></p><p>Once you&#8217;ve done solid context research, the next step is to visualize it. <strong>I suggest you map the context as if it were a radar: at the center you must always place the person who consumes the experience, it could be you, it could be a customer.</strong> That center isn&#8217;t decorative, it&#8217;s the system&#8217;s center of gravity; everything you draw around it must relate to it, directly or indirectly.</p><p>Then start tracing circles around the center. These will be the interaction levels of your experience. <strong>Think of these circles as layers of proximity: the closest circle represents the most direct, immediate, and frequent interactions, while as you move away from the center you start to find more indirect, more sporadic, or even invisible interactions, invisible to the user but no less important for it.</strong> They can be clicks, decisions, moments of use, moments of friction, moments of abandonment, moments of discovery. Every experience is different, so draw as many levels as you think you need. There&#8217;s no correct number, there&#8217;s an appropriate depth.</p><p>Now, each of those circles has to be read in three dimensions, and this is where the map stops being a drawing and starts being a system. <strong>Divide your radar into three sectors and name each one: Touchpoints, Channels, and People.</strong></p><p><strong>The Touchpoint is the moment of truth.</strong> It&#8217;s the specific event where the interaction happens. It&#8217;s where the system materializes in front of the user. It can be a click, a call, a conversation, a notification, a delivery, a recommendation. It&#8217;s precise, it&#8217;s concrete, it&#8217;s measurable. <strong>If you can&#8217;t point to it, it&#8217;s not a touchpoint.</strong> At this level you have to ask yourself: what exactly is happening here? What does the user expect? What do they actually get? Where does the friction show up? Where is value created?</p><p><strong>The Channel is the infrastructure that makes that touchpoint possible.</strong> It&#8217;s the medium through which the interaction occurs. It can be an app, a call center, a physical store, a chatbot, an email, an API. <strong>It&#8217;s the pipe the experience flows through.</strong> Very often design errors aren&#8217;t in the touchpoint but in the channel: latencies, friction, badly resolved interfaces, disconnections between systems. <strong>Here the question isn&#8217;t what happens, but where and under what conditions it happens.</strong></p><p><strong>People are everyone who interacts with the system,</strong> but not just as functional users, rather as contextual beings. This is where everything you already mapped comes into play: beliefs, expectations, fears, motivations, cultural context, socioeconomic level, life stage. The same experience changes radically depending on who lives it. That&#8217;s why, at this level, you have to ask: who is this person at this specific moment? Not in the abstract, but in situation.</p><p>When you map these three dimensions, Touchpoint, Channel, and People, you&#8217;ll start to see the patterns, you&#8217;ll start to identify where the system is aligned and where it breaks. Where there&#8217;s coherence and where there&#8217;s noise. Where context is being respected and where it&#8217;s being ignored. This is exactly where the real value of the exercise shows up: <strong>not in the map as an artifact, but in the ability to intervene.</strong> Because once you can see the system, you can redesign it, you can strip out friction, reinforce moments of value, adjust channels, reconfigure interactions. In essence, you can align the experience with the context.</p><p>Mapping context this way isn&#8217;t an aesthetic exercise, it&#8217;s a precision instrument. It&#8217;s what separates an agent that responds from one that truly understands.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png" width="1456" height="794" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:794,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5go4!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F477bc00c-e6fe-4abe-b63f-8a525b4456b4_2816x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>From Context Maps to AI Systems</strong></h3><p>This is the point where the synthesis reaches its real transformative potential. Most artificial intelligence systems fail not from a lack of data, but from a deeper deficiency: <strong>the absence of contextual understanding.</strong> They process huge volumes of information, but without a framework that grants meaning, which inevitably leads to superficial results and decisions misaligned with operational or strategic reality.</p><p><strong>That&#8217;s why AI shouldn&#8217;t be conceived as a system trained solely on data, but as an architecture trained on contextual structures.</strong> This means incorporating relationships, hierarchies, and meaning systems that let it interpret information beyond its raw form. In this sense, context maps become genuine <strong>design blueprints:</strong> they function as an operating system for intelligent agents, defining not only the inputs, signals, metadata, and relationships, but also the interpretation layers grounded in cultural rules and strategic logic, and finally the decision layer, where context-aligned responses are generated.</p><p>A clear example of this difference shows up in an AI-based sales agent. <strong>Without a well-structured context, the system would recommend products randomly or generically.</strong> But operating on top of a context map, the agent understands the customer&#8217;s life cycle, the industry&#8217;s dynamics, the buying signals, and the cultural codes that shape the decision. The result is a highly relevant action, with a higher probability of conversion and strategic coherence.</p><p>To reach this level of sophistication, AI training has to be structured across multiple layers of context. <strong>First, the data context, made up of structured datasets. Second, the relational context, which defines the interaction networks between actors. Third, the behavioral context, which captures patterns of action. On top of that comes the strategic context, which incorporates objectives and constraints, and finally the cultural context, which integrates language, tone, and social norms.</strong> Only by integrating these layers can you build truly intelligent systems.</p><p>Designing a personal AI agent is one thing; orchestrating an agentic architecture that operates across an organization&#8217;s processes is another. Although they seem essentially the same, scale matters when it comes to mapping contexts.</p><p>Context shouldn&#8217;t be understood as a passive background, nor as a mere environment, and least of all as a set of isolated data points. <strong>Context is, in truth, the invisible architecture of reality. It&#8217;s the system that organizes what&#8217;s possible, what&#8217;s visible, and what&#8217;s meaningful.</strong></p><h4>Anthropology teaches us that context creates meaning. Strategy shows us that context creates advantage. And artificial intelligence forces us to recognize that context must be modeled explicitly to generate true intelligence.</h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5plw!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3961e231-6676-4743-87d8-20f120d1a238_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!5plw!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3961e231-6676-4743-87d8-20f120d1a238_1536x1024.png 424w, 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href="https://www.futopix.com/p/futopix-toma-8-del-dr-google-al-dr">From Dr. Google to Dr. GPT</a></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Creativity vs. AI: Why Machines Compute but Only We Mean It]]></title><description><![CDATA[Take 2 | Human Intelligence, Imagination and Meaning in the Age of Computational Intelligence]]></description><link>https://www.futopix.com/p/creativity-vs-ai-why-machines-compute</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.futopix.com/p/creativity-vs-ai-why-machines-compute</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[FUTOPIX | Gabriel Bedoya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:42:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!jvw6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8db665cb-3a5d-4aae-98f5-aa6f6c530847_2816x1536.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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This little corner of the internet has helped me exorcise my demons and, at the same time, cracked open a door for me to express myself. <strong>I have to confess that at the start I was writing purely for myself, expecting nothing in return, like someone tossing a bottle into the sea with the secret hunch that somebody, on some far shore, will eventually find it and read the message tucked inside.</strong> But as the weeks went by, your comments have kept egging me on to keep this thing alive, episode after episode, week after week. <strong>Before I begin, I want to thank you for these six months and for making it this far, because if you read me every week, it&#8217;s because my essays give you something.</strong> I hope to keep doing exactly that for a long time to come. I also want to tell you that new projects are on the way, and I&#8217;ll be sharing them through this channel, like someone opening new rooms inside the same house.</p><p>The piece I&#8217;m bringing you today was hard to write. <strong>It may be the hardest of the 26 I&#8217;ve tackled since I started this adventure, and I don&#8217;t say that because the subject itself is so difficult, but because of the sheer number of debates that </strong><em><strong>creativity</strong></em><strong> has sparked across the ages.</strong> There are words that look transparent, but when you try to touch them, you discover they&#8217;re made of layers, of sediment, of centuries of accumulated argument. <em>Creativity</em> is one of them. We all think we understand it until we try to define it rigorously, and at that moment the concept turns slippery, shifting, almost untamable, gaseous.</p><p>I decided to write this piece about the <em>creativity/AI</em> relationship as the result of several conversations with friends, students and coworkers. <strong>I sense there&#8217;s a certain whiff of fear and ignorance around that relationship, a strange cocktail of fascination and suspicion, of enthusiasm and threat, so I wanted to give myself the room to write a bit about it.</strong> After four essays&#8217; worth of deleting, editing, copying and starting over, I think I finally feel at peace enough to lay out my views on the matter.</p><p>I naively began by writing down the <em>vox populi</em> ideas of what most of us consider creativity, or the art of making the new, and <strong>every time an idea landed in my mind, I couldn&#8217;t help wondering, in parallel, whether that same conceptual gesture could be pulled off by a computational intelligence.</strong> As I moved through the questions, I kept running out of easy answers, until only a handful of paths were left on the table for understanding, with any seriousness, what it actually means to be creative.</p><p>Don&#8217;t think the text you&#8217;re reading today came easy. The truth is I had to push myself harder than usual to get here. <strong>I had to go back to my notes as an anthropology student to recall concepts and dig up authors who really know this terrain, so I could escape the shallowness with which so many treat this subject and hand you something a touch more rigorous, but that would still give us a decent map for moving forward along the road of ideas.</strong> Because there are subjects that today get discussed far too fast, almost as if having an opinion were enough to crown ourselves experts. <strong>That, precisely, is one of the risks of our era: confusing speed with depth, repetition with thought, and familiarity with understanding.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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This is a question that psychology and anthropology have asked themselves ever since they existed as disciplines. Without hesitation, my favorite author for understanding what ideas are is <em>Gregory Bateson</em>, an anthropology classic that all of us who carry the title simply have to read. <strong>Bateson has a wonderful body of work called </strong><em><strong>Steps to an Ecology of Mind</strong></em><strong>; I recommend it to anyone who wants to read a scientific text bursting with ideas and concepts, because it changed my life, at the very least.</strong></p><p>Today I can say that, as an anthropologist, I&#8217;m profoundly <em>Batesonian</em>, though my anthropological DNA also carries a little bit of <em>Chomsky</em>, <em>L&#233;vi-Strauss</em>, <em>De Saussure</em>, <em>Morin</em> and <em>Capra</em>, among others. <strong>You don&#8217;t think from a single author, but there are authors who become a kind of backbone of your thinking, and Bateson, at least in my case, occupies that spot.</strong></p><p>To explain what an idea is, Bateson centered his studies on children, from newborns to adolescents. <strong>The basic question in his research model was how ideas take shape.</strong> To that end he observed how we humans learn, and he ended up classifying learning into three levels that, roughly speaking, he called the <em>sensory</em>, the <em>categorial</em> and the <em>conceptual</em>. Along these lines, he discovered that during our first years of life we discover the world through the five senses.</p><p>That&#8217;s why, when a baby eats dirt, in what pediatricians call the <em>oral stage</em>, it&#8217;s basically stress-testing its sensory system. <strong>Bateson argued that our brain thinks by generating comparisons in order to extract differences.</strong> That&#8217;s how babies learn to classify things according to the stimuli produced in the brain, and then extract the difference. When the baby eats dirt, its brain is comparing the taste of dirt with other, previously learned tastes: milk, pur&#233;e, soup, and so on. <strong>The sensory system identifies the taste, processes it, and extracts the difference.</strong> In the <em>Batesonian</em> world, then, an idea is the result of comparing things and extracting the differences: <strong>idea = difference</strong>.</p><p>Here it&#8217;s worth pausing a moment, because this seemingly simple formulation holds enormous depth. <strong>If an idea is a difference, then thinking doesn&#8217;t consist merely of accumulating information, but of learning to distinguish, to discriminate, to perceive what separates one thing from another.</strong> Thinking isn&#8217;t piling up data like someone filling a warehouse; thinking is <strong>perceiving relevant differences</strong>. This matters when we start comparing human intelligence with artificial intelligence, because <strong>a machine also detects differences, but it detects them in a radically different way.</strong> The machine identifies statistical distances, correlations, probabilities, patterns within mathematical spaces; the human, by contrast, <strong>extracts differences that then get embedded in a symbolic universe.</strong> For an AI, a difference can be a variation inside a vector; <strong>for a human, that difference can turn into meaning, memory, judgment, emotion, metaphor or destiny.</strong> That&#8217;s where a decisive fault line begins to open up between the two kinds of intelligence.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_lx!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb029a4-2e70-4015-9bfc-7cdbb7f22ae2_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_lx!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb029a4-2e70-4015-9bfc-7cdbb7f22ae2_2816x1536.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_lx!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb029a4-2e70-4015-9bfc-7cdbb7f22ae2_2816x1536.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_lx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb029a4-2e70-4015-9bfc-7cdbb7f22ae2_2816x1536.png 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_lx!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb029a4-2e70-4015-9bfc-7cdbb7f22ae2_2816x1536.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_lx!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb029a4-2e70-4015-9bfc-7cdbb7f22ae2_2816x1536.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!p_lx!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bb029a4-2e70-4015-9bfc-7cdbb7f22ae2_2816x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Later, as we near seven years of age, we begin climbing to the next level of cognition, the level of <em>categories</em>. <strong>According to the </strong><em><strong>Batesonian</strong></em><strong> postulates, our brain takes those differences = ideas and orders them into categories.</strong></p><p>It&#8217;s something like a set of <em>Matryoshka</em> dolls, where information gets organized according to what was learned at the level of the senses. <strong>Our categorial system organizes information according to our life experience and the cultural (</strong><em><strong>symbolic</strong></em><strong>) system in which we&#8217;re immersed.</strong> Let me open a parenthesis here to invite you to think of culture as a movie screen; it&#8217;s a gaseous, liquid thing onto which we project our life experience. It&#8217;s the screen where each society projects its own film, or to put it another way, it&#8217;s the <strong>operating system of society</strong>, where we install the set of beliefs within which we live, feel, interpret and even dream.</p><p><strong>Back to the categorial system: Bateson says we organize ideas according to our experience, and we subject that experience to a classificatory system that sorts emotions into good or bad, fast or slow, sweet or salty, beautiful or vulgar, sacred or profane, and it keeps feeding itself until it manages to build what we understand as </strong><em><strong>cosmogonies</strong></em><strong>.</strong> Now, we spend practically our whole lives living in the categorial, so <strong>when do we acquire the conceptual?</strong> For Bateson, we all have the capacity to think conceptually, but it requires a capacity that&#8217;s scarce in many of us, and that&#8217;s the capacity to <strong>build contexts</strong>. Here, in my view, a central part not only of what we understand as creativity, but of intelligence itself, begins to play out.</p><p>Let me give you an example: take a sheet of paper; I&#8217;m going to ask you to think of a tree and draw it&#8230; with absolute certainty, most of you will draw an image resembling the following:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!so9N!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96013584-b0e0-4a4e-90ac-c3bb59f471b0_1204x1291.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!so9N!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F96013584-b0e0-4a4e-90ac-c3bb59f471b0_1204x1291.png 424w, 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This first abstraction belongs to the world of the <em>sensory</em>; it&#8217;s the way we learned to visualize trees when we were kids. Next, I&#8217;d like you to think of and draw an apple tree, for which most of us would proceed to draw an image like the one I&#8217;m showing you below:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png" width="1214" height="1279" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1279,&quot;width&quot;:1214,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9ANL!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f426fc3-707c-42b8-94c6-1e0acb8544c0_1214x1279.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Notice that we&#8217;ve basically added elements and colors that set our tree apart from others, which tells us we&#8217;re now thinking from the world of <em>categories</em>. Finally, I want to invite you to imagine and draw a forest.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png" width="1456" height="993" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:993,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qERE!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7bf2f7ec-523e-483a-88cf-e0dbade98e2b_1872x1277.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Once again, each of us will bring to mind an image of the forest built from our own experience and context. From the conceptual standpoint, our forest could contain every possible image of trees, according to our experience with the concept of a forest. Something fascinating happens here: the forest is no longer just a sum of trees, but a broader mental structure, a totality organized by context. <strong>When we reach that point, we&#8217;re brushing up against the conceptual as the sum of all possibilities; that&#8217;s why we struggle so much to understand the proof-of-concept work of costume designers, among others.</strong></p><p>The idea of <em>context</em> is so powerful that it invites even deeper reflection. The broader my knowledge of forests, the broader the contexts I can recreate, so concepts like <em>cloud forest</em>, <em>rainforest</em> and <em>tropical jungle</em> could be explained without difficulty, and the differences between them (<strong>ideas</strong>) can be extracted with great ease, to the point where we could argue why a wet jungle isn&#8217;t a tropical forest, or why two landscapes that to an uninformed observer might look identical actually answer to completely different ecological, symbolic and material logics. <strong>To think conceptually is, in large measure, to widen the field of possible contexts.</strong></p><p>Here the comparison with <em>AI</em> shows up again. An artificial intelligence can process an immense quantity of examples of trees, forests, jungles and mountains. It can classify millions of images, learn regularities, segment attributes, label shapes and produce surprisingly accurate descriptions. <strong>But its relationship with context is not lived; it&#8217;s calculated.</strong> It doesn&#8217;t inhabit the forest, doesn&#8217;t fear the jungle, doesn&#8217;t remember a walk in the rain, doesn&#8217;t associate the smell of wet earth with childhood or the rustle of leaves with an intimate experience. It can reconstruct the pattern, <strong>but it can&#8217;t inhabit the symbolic world that gives the pattern its dimension.</strong> That&#8217;s crucial for understanding the limits of computational intelligence: we humans don&#8217;t just process information, we live it inside a fabric of culture and meaning.</p><p>Steve Jobs became even more famous for a speech in which he told his audience that <strong>there was nothing brilliant about his work and that all he did was &#8220;connect the dots.&#8221;</strong> But what exactly did Jobs mean when he talked about connecting the dots? The answer is simple, but its depth is immense: the more you learn about a subject (<strong>the dots</strong>), the greater your capacity to widen your knowledge and question it, so as to simultaneously extract the differences (<strong>ideas</strong>) and, in this way, connect them around a need (<em>vulnerability</em>). <strong>This process is what we call </strong><em><strong>creativity</strong></em><strong>.</strong> Creativity, then, is not a magic spark fallen from the sky nor a privilege reserved for a caste of the enlightened; it&#8217;s the capacity to relate contexts, to build bridges between domains, to discover fertile differences where others see only scattered information.</p><p>It&#8217;s worth saying something important here: today we tend to overvalue the speed with which artificial intelligence connects dots, but we forget that <strong>not every connected dot produces meaning</strong>. A machine can link concepts with astonishing efficiency, but human creativity doesn&#8217;t consist solely of connecting; it consists of knowing <em>why</em> to connect, <em>from where</em> to connect and <em>what for</em>. <strong>In other words, the human doesn&#8217;t just assemble relationships; the human introduces direction, relevance, desire, anguish, intuition and meaning.</strong> The machine can suggest combinations; human consciousness decides which ones deserve to become meaning.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EMoS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F687e1889-eaec-4466-929c-bfc19f1a16f9_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>And what about intelligence?</strong></h3><p>Let&#8217;s go back to the <em>Batesonian</em> examples. This man argued that <strong>the human brain thinks in images; that is, we process images more easily than text.</strong> Advertisers and designers know this all too well: a brain that thinks in images processes more information thanks to a biological premise; <strong>the optic nerve transmits data to our brain at a speed and processing density that make the image a privileged pathway for organizing experience.</strong> Let&#8217;s do a new exercise. If I tell you to think of your friend John&#8230; take a few seconds before continuing. What will happen in your mind is that it will start scanning its internal database of images of every friend you have named John. We&#8217;ll watch the images go by, identifying the distinctive features of each one. What probably comes next is that many of you will say: John, which John?</p><p>So I&#8217;ll answer: John, the one who looks like James. Again the scan of your image database will kick in, in which you&#8217;ll surely contrast the images of the Johns in your memory with those of the Jameses, to extract the differences (<strong>ideas</strong>) and finally conclude whether they look alike or not. Conclusion: <strong>an idea is the image of a difference</strong>.</p><p>What seems so simple actually describes a deeply sophisticated mechanism. <strong>Our brain doesn&#8217;t think like a linear list of data, but like a web of associations, contrasts and activations.</strong> We think by comparing, filtering, associating, discarding, trying again.</p><p>Fine, but this still doesn&#8217;t fully explain what intelligence is. To find answers we have to bring in another genius of anthropology and linguistics: <em>Ferdinand de Saussure.</em> This linguist coined what we know today as the theory of the value of the sign, which explains the relationship between the <em>signified</em> and the <em>signifier</em>, or between what a thing denotes and what it connotes. <strong>We have an expression that sums it up simply and without so much fuss: </strong><em><strong>what the donkey says is one thing, what the driver behind it says is another</strong></em><strong>.</strong> I love that saying because, in its apparent crudeness, it holds an extraordinary semiotic truth: things don&#8217;t mean anything by themselves; they mean within a relational system.</p><p>Culture, as the <strong>operating system for humans</strong>, dictates the rules of what actions, objects, life experiences, rituals and bonds mean to us. <strong>A plate of beans has one symbolic dimension across the Americas and another in the islands of the Japanese archipelago. It&#8217;s the same bean, yes, but while in the Americas beans accompany a primarily savory meal, in Japan they can be filling for sweet pastries.</strong> The object is the same; the symbolic dimension is different. That symbolic difference isn&#8217;t decorative or anecdotal; it&#8217;s precisely what turns a simple material object into a cultural unit charged with meaning.</p><p>I don&#8217;t buy this business of <em>IQs</em> (<em>Intelligence Quotients</em>) as absolute indicators of human intelligence; to me the matter is quite relative. What I do believe is that there are people with far broader contexts of information, which let them generate more neural connections, more fertile associations, more capacity for reading across domains. Let me explain myself. Imagine a person with a very high IQ who, through one of life&#8217;s twists, is abandoned deep in the Amazon jungle. <strong>What do you think that person&#8217;s odds of survival will be in a place they have no context for?</strong> They&#8217;ll probably use every tool of their knowledge to try to survive. Now, on the other side there&#8217;s a member of a nomadic Indigenous community of the Amazon, with a probably lower IQ against the reference subjects by which such things are measured. <strong>Who will have a better shot at surviving in that place?</strong> Before moving on, I want to clarify that I&#8217;m not underestimating our Indigenous person; it&#8217;s merely a comparison to illustrate the concept, since the same thing could happen in reverse, and I&#8217;m almost certain our Indigenous person would have an easier time of it in a metropolis than a genius in the middle of the bush.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!0Q5x!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fddbf1a3f-bfb6-4d4b-a742-d73229fe4b8a_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Intelligence</strong>, then, can be understood as the capacity we humans have to connect dots between different domains and contexts, both within a single symbolic domain and across others. <strong>In other words, the speed, depth and plasticity we have for connecting biology with astrophysics, robotics with anthropology, design with survival, memory with invention, so as to extract the differences and build networks of meaning.</strong></p><p>The difference between human intelligence and computational intelligence is that we build the former out of networks of meaning, while the latter is built through mathematical algorithms devoid of any symbolic content of their own and of lived experiences. To an artificial intelligence, it makes no difference whether you&#8217;re writing a romantic poem or a formula to reinvent Coca-Cola, because in both cases it&#8217;s processing correlations, regularities and probabilities within a mathematical field. <strong>The machine processes; the human interprets. The machine correlates; the human seeks meaning.</strong></p><p>This difference is no small thing. An AI can recognize a poem&#8217;s style, imitate its meter, produce an emotive verbal structure and even simulate delicacy or melancholy, <strong>but it doesn&#8217;t know what it is to love, to lose, to wait, to grow old, to fail or to remember.</strong> It has no biography, because it has never been wounded, has never felt the urgency of time, nor shame, nor grief, nor desire. Its intelligence, however powerful, lacks the existential pressure that gives density to human experience. Without that density, what you have is a hollow intelligence, formidable at operating, but not necessarily intelligent at <em>understanding</em> in the anthropological sense of the word.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uPYW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb1cbf36-bee1-4f92-a98e-3cccccd7b6dd_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uPYW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbb1cbf36-bee1-4f92-a98e-3cccccd7b6dd_2816x1536.png 424w, 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>What role does vulnerability play in all this mess?</strong></h3><p>Since time immemorial, when we painted the cave walls, forged arrowheads as tools for hunting big game or gathered seeds on the floodplains, <strong>vulnerability</strong> has been the mother of creativity. No one can dispute that creativity switches on when we&#8217;ve got the predator breathing down our neck. <strong>Postwar Germany wouldn&#8217;t be what it is today were it not for the tremendous vulnerability its population was left in after </strong><em><strong>WWII</strong></em><strong>, and the same goes for Japan.</strong> The thing is, nowadays we prefer to call vulnerability <em>unmet consumer needs</em>. Maslow wrote a whole treatise on the subject; I&#8217;m not going to get into that debate, I just want to say that vulnerabilities are the active spectrum of creativity, and that depending on the level of those vulnerabilities, so too will be our response.</p><p>Here I want to insist on something I find central: <strong>human creativity is not born of comfort, it&#8217;s born of friction</strong>. It&#8217;s born of the fragile body, of scarcity, of need, of fear, of curiosity, of the discomfort of not understanding, of the pain of falling short, of the pressure to solve. The wheel, the needle, the city, medicine, myth, agriculture, philosophy and even art can be read, to some degree, as creative responses to human vulnerability. We don&#8217;t invent for the fun of it; <strong>we invent because something is missing, because something threatens us, because something calls to us, because something hurts us.</strong> Here again an enormous border with <em>AI</em> appears. The machine doesn&#8217;t know vulnerability, doesn&#8217;t feel hunger, doesn&#8217;t fear death, doesn&#8217;t need shelter, doesn&#8217;t fall in love, doesn&#8217;t grow old, doesn&#8217;t seek transcendence. It can optimize solutions, but it doesn&#8217;t suffer the problem. <strong>Between suffering a problem and processing it there&#8217;s a gigantic anthropological distance.</strong></p><p>Necessarily, when we talk about creativity and human intelligence, we have to talk about our attitudes toward needs, and on that front I&#8217;ll say there are at least two perspectives. There are people who face needs with a jigsaw-puzzle mindset, connecting little pieces (<strong>ideas</strong>) one by one until the puzzle takes shape (<em>meaning</em>). <strong>But what happens when pieces are missing?</strong> This is where the challenges to creativity arise. Now, on the other side we have those who see problems like engine builders; that is, they connect dots (<strong>ideas</strong>) with which they seek to move forward, refusing to let the absence of a single part stop them. <strong>Along these lines, which kind of intelligence do you identify with more, the jigsaw-puzzle assembler or the engine builder?</strong></p><p>I find this comparison powerful because it describes two very different cognitive dispositions toward the world. The <em>puzzle</em> assembler needs the final image, needs the exact piece, needs to close off the meaning. The engine builder, by contrast, is willing to improvise, to substitute, to reconfigure, to advance even when the map isn&#8217;t complete. One seeks completeness; the other seeks movement. One orients by the finished image; the other by the possibility of generating traction. <strong>If we think about it carefully, the age of AI is demanding of us more and more engine-builder intelligence and less jigsaw-puzzle intelligence, because the world coming won&#8217;t reward only those who know how to repeat a recipe, but those who know how to reconfigure domains, cross contexts and build meaning amid the abundance of automated information.</strong></p><p>What we know as intelligence also has to do with the way our neural network operates (<strong>connecting the dots</strong>). There are those who live in <em><strong>attention mode</strong></em>, that is, constantly monitoring the information they consume, filtering out what adds value to their system of connections and eliminating the noise. Their information diet is policed rigorously. On another level are those who live in something neuroscience calls the <em>DMN</em> (<em>Default Mode Network</em>). <strong>No matter what they&#8217;re doing, their mind lives in constant connection training; rather than hunting for the missing piece, they seek to hack the default order to find new formulas or disruptions.</strong> Finally there&#8217;s <strong>scanner intelligence</strong>, the kind of intelligence permanently searching for signals, in order to detect them, amplify them, extract the differences (<strong>ideas</strong>) and add them to its symbolic domain. They live in permanent reinvention.</p><p>These three forms aren&#8217;t sealed compartments, but they do help us understand distinct styles of being in the world. <strong>The one who lives in </strong><em><strong>attention mode</strong></em><strong> filters. The one who lives in the </strong><em><strong>DMN</strong></em><strong> recombines. The one who lives in </strong><em><strong>scanner mode</strong></em><strong> detects weak signals before everyone else.</strong> If there&#8217;s anything I want to underline here, it&#8217;s that creativity doesn&#8217;t depend solely on having information, but on the <strong>way the mind works with that information</strong>. AI, for example, may look like an extraordinary scanner-mode machine, because it tracks patterns at brutal scales; it may also look like an inexhaustible recombination machine, because it articulates scattered elements with great speed. 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Think of AI as a system whose <em>OS</em> is limited to a linear program within an exclusive field, or if you prefer, an <em>LLM</em>, whereas human intelligence can run transversally across all operating systems; it would be a <em>multivectorial</em> intelligence set against the specialized, statistical and bounded character of <em>LLMs</em>. It&#8217;s agnostic in operating-system terms.</p><p>I want to make an important clarification so I&#8217;m not misread. I&#8217;m not saying AI is small potatoes. Quite the opposite: I think it&#8217;s an extraordinary tool, probably one of the most powerful humanity has ever produced. What I&#8217;m saying is that <strong>its power isn&#8217;t equivalent to our form of consciousness</strong>. AI can help us explore possibilities, accelerate iterations, simulate scenarios, find improbable connections, push cognitive work toward speeds previously unthinkable. <strong>But that&#8217;s no reason to make the mistake of granting it a cultural sovereignty it doesn&#8217;t possess. The machine doesn&#8217;t generate culture on its own; it participates in culture through the human materials it was trained on and through the human uses we give it.</strong></p><p>In other words, AI can produce <em>content</em> with astonishing power, but <strong>producing content is not the same as producing meaning</strong>. Meaning emerges when a human community interprets, argues over, adopts, rejects, ritualizes, transmits or transforms something within a cultural network. A poem doesn&#8217;t become important because it&#8217;s well written, but because it strikes a human chord and manages to insert itself into a symbolic economy. A theory doesn&#8217;t change the world just for being coherent, but because it reorganizes the way a society thinks about reality. A technology doesn&#8217;t matter just because it works, but because it alters habits, expectations, relationships and structures of power. That&#8217;s where the difference lies.</p><p>Now then, <strong>will we be replaced by </strong><em><strong>AIs</strong></em><strong>? As long as </strong><em><strong>AIs</strong></em><strong> don&#8217;t have the capacity to generate culture, we&#8217;re safe.</strong> When I say generate culture, I don&#8217;t mean mixing signs, styles or references, but the deepest part of the cultural process: <strong>building meaning out of experience, out of a vulnerability, out of a shared history, out of the experience of being alive within a human community</strong>. The machine can be a great mirror, a great amplifier, a great cognitive telescope; but the astronomer is still the human. It can help us traverse the territory, but it still can&#8217;t produce, on its own, the symbolic ground on which we walk.</p><p>The AI debate tends to close with a question that inevitably shows up in any contemporary conversation: <strong>will we be replaced?</strong> Deep down, this question reveals more about our cultural insecurities than about the true nature of intelligence. When we fear being replaced by a machine, we&#8217;re assuming that human intelligence and computational intelligence belong to the same order of phenomena. But across these pages we&#8217;ve seen that this isn&#8217;t so.</p><p>The truly interesting question isn&#8217;t how fast a machine can produce something, but <strong>what that something it produces means</strong>. Here a fundamental difference appears: whereas AI operates over statistical patterns within an algorithmic domain, human intelligence operates within a symbolic universe built by culture.</p><p>In other words, an <em>AI</em> can combine millions of texts to produce a poem that&#8217;s perfect from a formal standpoint, but it doesn&#8217;t possess the cultural fabric that lets it understand what love, loss or nostalgia mean within human experience. It can recognize the structure of a metaphor, but it doesn&#8217;t inhabit the world where that metaphor acquires meaning. AI calculates; <strong>human intelligence interprets</strong>.</p><p>If we recall the <em>Batesonian</em> definition of an idea as a difference, we can see this point more clearly. An artificial intelligence can detect statistical differences between patterns of data, but those differences have no cultural meaning for it. They&#8217;re simply mathematical variations within a vector space. For humans, by contrast, differences don&#8217;t just exist; they <strong>mean something</strong>. They get inserted into symbolic networks, into stories, into emotions, into cultural contexts that transform a mere difference into an idea charged with meaning.</p><p>That&#8217;s why, when we talk about human creativity, we&#8217;re not simply talking about producing something new. We&#8217;re talking about <strong>reconfiguring networks of meaning within a cultural system</strong>. A technological invention, a scientific theory or a work of art doesn&#8217;t just introduce novelty; it reorganizes the way a society understands the world. That&#8217;s the true creative act.</p><p>AI, by contrast, operates within a system we could describe as <strong>a space of probability without experience</strong>. It can generate millions of possible combinations within a semantic field, but it lacks the thing that feeds human creativity from its deepest roots: lived experience, vulnerability, history, cultural memory.</p><p>Let&#8217;s recall that above we affirmed that vulnerability has always been the mother of creativity. Tools were born because humans were physically weak against predators. Cities were born because cooperation increased our chances of survival. Science was born because we wanted to understand natural forces that overwhelmed us. Even art, in many senses, was born as an attempt to tame the fear and mystery of existence.</p><p>Human creativity, therefore, doesn&#8217;t arise from an abundance of information but from the <strong>friction between our limitations and our aspirations</strong>. It arises when something hurts us, when something is missing, when the world doesn&#8217;t quite fit our expectations. The machine, by contrast, knows no vulnerability. It feels no hunger, no fear, no existential curiosity. Without experience, there&#8217;s no culture.</p><p>For this reason, when many announce the end of human creativity in the face of AI&#8217;s advance, they&#8217;re actually confusing two radically different things: <strong>content generation and the creation of meaning</strong>.</p><p>Culture is a living system that emerges from the interaction of millions of human minds interpreting the world from different perspectives. It&#8217;s a symbolic system that evolves across generations. AI can participate in that system as a tool, as an amplifier, as a catalyst even, but it can&#8217;t substitute for the cultural process that produces it.</p><p>In a sense, we could say AI functions as a <em>cognitive telescope</em>. It expands our capacity to explore possible combinations within existing knowledge. But just as a telescope doesn&#8217;t replace the astronomer, artificial intelligence doesn&#8217;t replace the thinker. What it does is expand the horizon from which we think.</p><p>If anything characterizes our species, it&#8217;s precisely that capacity to <strong>extend our faculties through tools</strong>. Fire amplified our capacity to transform nature. Writing amplified our collective memory. The printing press amplified the circulation of knowledge. The computer amplified the processing of information. AI amplifies our capacity to explore the space of ideas.</p><p>The right question isn&#8217;t whether AI will replace human creativity. The right question is <strong>what kind of creativity will emerge when we live alongside intelligences capable of processing information at inhuman speeds</strong>. What new forms of thought will appear when massive computation stops being a scarce privilege and becomes everyday infrastructure? What kind of authors, scientists, designers, storytellers or strategists will emerge when thinking no longer means doing it all alone, but knowing how to converse with systems capable of brutally expanding the field of possibilities?</p><p>Because every time humanity has created a powerful tool, human creativity hasn&#8217;t vanished. It has changed form. Let me ask you: did painters disappear with the rise of photography? What we&#8217;re witnessing now isn&#8217;t the end of human creativity, but <strong>an expansion of its territory</strong>.</p><p>AI will be able to help us explore combinations of ideas that would once have taken decades of work. It will be able to suggest unexpected connections between distinct domains of knowledge. It will be able to accelerate processes of research, design or discovery. But the decision about <strong>which problems are worth solving</strong>, <strong>which questions are worth asking</strong> or <strong>which meanings we want to build as a society</strong> will remain a deeply human decision.</p><p>Because at the end of the day, machines can process information, but <strong>only we humans live the stories</strong>.</p><p>That&#8217;s why, if there&#8217;s any conclusion to draw from this reflection, it&#8217;s that human creativity is not threatened by AI. What is threatened, in any case, is <strong>our intellectual laziness</strong>. The ease with which we can outsource thinking to automatic systems. The temptation to consume ideas instead of building them. The risk of turning a tool for cognitive expansion into a crutch for the imagination.</p><p>Artificial intelligence will be as powerful as the culture that uses it. If we use it to repeat what we already know, it will become a gigantic echo machine. <strong>But if we use it to explore the unknown, to connect distant domains, to widen our collective imagination, then it will become one of the most extraordinary tools humanity has ever created.</strong></p><h4><strong>Ultimately, the future of creativity doesn&#8217;t depend on artificial intelligence. It depends on our will to stay curious. 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21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>When Intelligence Became Abundant</strong></h3><p>For centuries, we humans organized our entire civilization around a quiet premise: <strong>intelligence was a scarce asset</strong>. Societies rewarded whoever could think better, calculate faster, remember more, or make more complex decisions. <strong>Universities became temples of intellectual selection &#8212; holding a college diploma became more valuable than holding a title from a royal court.</strong> The high-prestige professions grew up exactly where human thinking was hardest to replace.</p><p>And yet, thanks to the advances in AI, we are now <strong>entering a historic moment where that premise is starting to wobble</strong>. For the first time since we became a civilization, <strong>intelligence &#8212; at least in its computational form &#8212; is beginning to turn into an abundant resource</strong>. <em>Artificial intelligence</em> models, <em>agentic systems</em>, and <em>humanoid robotics</em> are extending the reach of automated thinking at a pace that just a decade ago seemed improbable. <strong>What once took entire teams of specialists can now be done by digital systems capable of analyzing data, writing code, producing text, interpreting images, or coordinating complex processes in a matter of minutes.</strong> What used to take us weeks can now be done in minutes.</p><p>This phenomenon <strong>should not be read as an existential threat or a technological dystopia</strong>; we should understand it as <strong>a transition toward a new paradigm (remember Thomas Kuhn&#8217;s concept of normal science from &#8220;The Structure of Scientific Revolutions,&#8221; which we&#8217;ve already discussed in earlier editions of FUTOPIX)</strong>.</p><p>Along these lines, every great technological leap &#8212; agriculture, the printing press, the steam engine, electricity, the Internet &#8212; <strong>profoundly reorganized the role of human beings in the economy and in culture</strong>. The <em>artificial intelligence</em> revolution will be no different. What will change isn&#8217;t only the technology, but <strong>the very structure of economic value built around it</strong>.</p><p>Remember that when <strong>physical strength was abundant</strong>, industrial machines redefined human labor; when <strong>information stopped being scarce</strong>, the Internet transformed the knowledge economy. Now that <strong>computational intelligence is starting to multiply</strong>, we&#8217;re entering <strong>a new phase in the reorganization of the productive system</strong>.</p><p>In that context, an unavoidable question surfaces &#8212; especially for those of us who are parents, educators, or <em>future-builders</em>:</p><p><strong>What should our kids study in order to thrive in a world where computational intelligence is no longer a scarce resource?</strong></p><p>Answering that question demands that we <strong>look past the tech headlines</strong>. It requires understanding the <em>weak or early signals</em> that hint at where the global economic system is heading. That, in turn, calls for a <em>foresight</em> mindset &#8212; one capable of reading emerging patterns before they harden into dominant trends.</p><p>Recently, <em>Citrini Research</em> published a piece titled <strong>&#8220;The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis,&#8221;</strong> in which they map out exactly these signals &#8212; not as a doomsday prediction, nor as an exercise in <em>economic science fiction</em>, but as <strong>an intellectual experiment that explores the possible consequences of a world where AI works so well that it transforms the very foundations of employment, productivity, and economic distribution</strong>.</p><p>From the <strong>FUTOPIX</strong> perspective, documents like this <strong>aren&#8217;t warnings we read in fear &#8212; they&#8217;re navigation charts,</strong> <em>incomplete maps</em> of territory still taking shape.</p><p>Some of the <em>weak / early signals</em> that show up in that analysis are <em>cognitive automation</em>, <em>autonomous agents</em>, <em>partially robotized economies</em>, and <em>new financial infrastructures</em>. <strong>They don&#8217;t describe an inevitable collapse;</strong> they describe <strong>a deep reorganization of the system &#8212; and, like every reorganization, it also opens new frontiers of opportunity</strong>.</p><p>Detecting and understanding these signals is <strong>the first step toward building a solid educational strategy for the coming generations, because the goal</strong> is not to protect our kids from technology, <strong>but to prepare them to use it as an extension of their creativity, their intelligence, and their capacity to build better slices of the future for the generations that follow</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>Reading the Weak Signals&#8230;</strong></h3><p><em>Citrini Research</em> describes <strong>a set of emerging mechanisms that, though still in their infancy, could profoundly transform the global economy over the coming decades</strong>. This symptomatic evidence doesn&#8217;t show up as abrupt ruptures, but as what we futurists call <em>weak signals</em> &#8212; early hints that reveal how the foundations of the productive system are slowly being reconfigured. It&#8217;s like learning to read the ventures cooking in a garage that carry the potential to change the world.</p><p>The first of these signals appears as a <strong>technological feedback loop driven by the compounding adoption of AI</strong>. As companies start integrating <em>AI systems</em> to boost operational efficiency, certain professional roles will experience a gradual shrinkage. What was initially rolled out as a support tool ends up becoming <strong>an optimization mechanism</strong>. When operating costs drop thanks to automation, organizations free up capital that they then reinvest in new technological optimizations. That capital feeds new productivity gains, which in turn incentivize more automation. The result is <strong>a virtuous cycle of technological acceleration that constantly feeds itself</strong>.</p><p>This kind of dynamic isn&#8217;t new. Similar phenomena played out during the <em>industrial mechanization of the nineteenth century</em> and later with the <em>computer automation of the twentieth</em>. But <strong>the fundamental difference in today&#8217;s revolution is that AI acts directly on the tasks demanding cognitive activity &#8212; the ones we used to think of as exclusively human</strong>. This isn&#8217;t just about replacing physical strength or repetitive chores; now the technology steps into the processes of analysis, interpretation, planning, and decision-making.</p><p>The first signs of this shift can already be seen in tools like <em>GitHub Copilot</em>, which dramatically amplify programmers&#8217; productivity, or in advanced <em>automated data-analysis</em> systems that let companies run studies that once required entire teams of specialists. I&#8217;m not saying these advances <strong>wipe out human work entirely</strong>, but they do <strong>profoundly redefine its nature</strong>. Professionals in these fields will stop being the direct executors of these tasks and become designers, supervisors, or integrators of intelligent systems.</p><p>A second weak signal appears with a phenomenon some analysts have begun to call <em><strong>Phantom GDP</strong></em>. This concept describes <strong>an economy where a growing share of output is generated by machines that don&#8217;t take part in the traditional cycle of human consumption</strong>. Robots don&#8217;t buy homes, don&#8217;t plan vacations, don&#8217;t consume cultural goods. When a significant portion of productivity comes from automated systems, economic growth can begin to <strong>partly decouple from human employment</strong>.</p><p>We can already see early hints of this in <em>fully robotized warehouses and restaurants</em>, in <em>highly automated logistics chains</em>, and in factories where production keeps running through the night with no direct human presence. These systems generate enormous efficiency and economic value, but they also <strong>redistribute the gains toward whoever owns the technological infrastructure, the computational capital, or the automation platforms</strong>.</p><p>Another meaningful signal emerges with the arrival of <em><strong>agentic AI (AAI)</strong></em> &#8212; that is, <em>systems capable of planning, executing, and correcting complex tasks autonomously</em>. What sets agentic AI apart from traditional software models is that these systems don&#8217;t just respond to specific instructions. They can analyze goals, design strategies, and execute multiple intermediate steps to reach them.</p><p>The first versions of these technologies can already be seen in experimental tools that can <em>write complete software</em>, <em>manage business processes</em>, or <em>coordinate complex logistics operations</em>. Systems like these suggest that <strong>many layers of economic intermediation could gradually vanish</strong>. When an intelligent agent can weigh options, compare prices, negotiate terms, and execute decisions in a matter of seconds, <strong>the traditional frictions of the market start to drop sharply &#8212; in some cases all the way to zero (take a look at openclaw)</strong>.</p><p>This phenomenon seems to be on a collision course with another quiet transformation moving in parallel. I&#8217;m talking about <strong>the evolution of global financial infrastructure</strong>. In the digital ecosystem, there already exist <em>blockchain</em>-based payment networks capable of near-instant transactions at extremely low cost. Platforms built on networks like <em>Solana</em> are proving that value can move without the traditional layers of financial intermediation.</p><p>If <em>(AAI) agents</em> begin to interact economically with one another &#8212; negotiating purchases, contracting services, managing digital resources &#8212; we could enter a stage where <strong>economic transactions become partly autonomous</strong>. In that scenario, some components of the traditional financial system will have to adapt to a far more automated and programmable environment. Something that traditional banking finds both hard and painful.</p><p>When we look at these signals together &#8212; <em>cognitive automation</em>, <em>Phantom GDP</em>, <em>agentic AI</em>, and <em>the new decentralized financial infrastructures</em> &#8212; a clear pattern emerges. <strong>This isn&#8217;t a simple technological evolution; it&#8217;s a profound reorganization of the global economic system.</strong></p><p>Now, these signals <strong>should not be read as announcements of inevitable crises</strong>. Economic history shows us that every great technological transformation generates both disruption and new opportunity. What these signals are really showing us is that <strong>the foundations of productivity, of human work, and of value creation are entering a liminal phase of transition</strong>.</p><p>Understanding these transitions before they become trends is precisely the point of strategic foresight. Because in the moments when the system begins to reorganize itself, <strong>those who manage to read the early signals don&#8217;t just adapt to the future &#8212; they dare to build it</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2PGM!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f786175-f104-4dd7-aef9-3bc07f4a5c37_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2PGM!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f786175-f104-4dd7-aef9-3bc07f4a5c37_2816x1536.png 424w, 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I should note that not every profession will face the same degree of transformation. The occupations whose essence is mainly about <em>processing information in routine ways</em> are among the most exposed to the reconfiguration AI brings.</p><p>For decades, much of the knowledge economy was organized around tasks like reviewing documents, comparing information, processing data, or verifying procedures. Professions such as <em>operational accounting</em>, <em>routine financial analysis</em>, <em>legal contract review</em>, or certain kinds of <em>commercial intermediation</em> were born precisely in a context where <strong>the ability to analyze information was limited, expensive, and slow</strong>. That context is changing forever.</p><p>Today, <em>intelligent agents</em> can analyze contracts, catch regulatory inconsistencies, compare financial terms, or process massive volumes of data in seconds. This capability doesn&#8217;t automatically mean those professions disappear, but it does mean <strong>a transformation of their operational core</strong>. A professional&#8217;s value will no longer sit so much in performing the basic analysis of the information, but in <strong>interpreting its implications, designing strategies, and making complex decisions inside uncertain contexts</strong>. These roles will have to shift from passive agents to active players &#8212; we&#8217;ll move from the accountant who only presents the books to the one who suggests strategy.</p><p>A similar phenomenon is starting to show up in <em>software development</em>. For a long time, writing code was a skill held by a few, considered highly specialized and demanding years of technical training. But the arrival of AI-assisted programming tools is beginning to automate part of the most repetitive tasks in the development process. Generating simple functions, fixing syntax errors, or completing code snippets are activities today&#8217;s systems can already handle very efficiently. When it comes to laying out architectures and <em>wireframes</em>, AI does it faster than humans and without mistakes. What used to take a developer weeks, AI does in minutes &#8212; with the added advantage that the user can iterate with the system in real time until they land on the result they want.</p><p>This doesn&#8217;t mean developers are going to disappear. What will probably happen is <strong>a migration of the purely technical roles toward higher levels of abstraction</strong>. The engineer of the future will have less to do with hand-writing every line of code and more to do with <strong>designing ontological systems and technological architectures, integrating them into complex systems, and supervising fully automated environments</strong>. In other words, engineering will evolve from technical execution toward the <em>orchestration of ontological systems</em>.</p><p>In parallel, the development of <em>humanoid robots</em> will introduce a new component into this transformation. Unlike traditional industrial robots designed for extremely specific tasks, humanoids aim to replicate human physical capabilities &#8212; walking, manipulating objects, interacting with variable environments. For anyone who imagines the humanoid sitting beside you typing information into a keyboard, the answer is: why would it? Typing data is a wildly inefficient process. Just think about how <em>R2-D2 (Star Wars)</em> jacks into a spaceship&#8217;s systems, plugging directly into the network to transmit packets of information. Humanoids will simply send data via proxies &#8212; even over Bluetooth signals.</p><p>Although these devices are still in early phases of development, their potential points toward taking part in activities like <em>advanced logistics, technical maintenance, or certain flexible-manufacturing operations</em> (FUTOPIX has plenty of articles on this).</p><p>The challenge isn&#8217;t about defending specific occupations against technology. The real question is understanding <strong>which human skills become more relevant as technology advances</strong>. In this transition, those skills tend to cluster in areas dominated by <strong>interpretation, creativity, strategic judgment, and the ability to grasp complex systems</strong>.</p><p>In the end, the professional map of the future won&#8217;t be defined solely by the arrival of new technological tools. It will be defined by <strong>the way human beings learn to integrate them within broader economic, cultural, and social structures</strong>. That&#8217;s exactly where human intelligence remains decisive.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RKM6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c1c56fa-9fd8-4768-924f-cc778197a9c2_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RKM6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c1c56fa-9fd8-4768-924f-cc778197a9c2_2816x1536.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!RKM6!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3c1c56fa-9fd8-4768-924f-cc778197a9c2_2816x1536.png 848w, 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15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>What Our Kids Should Study</strong></h3><p>If we accept that <strong>the near future will be a hybrid ecosystem where human intelligence and artificial intelligence coexist</strong>, then it&#8217;s obvious that <strong>education will have to transform as deeply as the economy and technology have</strong>. For decades, educational systems have been designed to prepare individuals capable of performing specific tasks inside relatively stable labor structures. But in a world where machines are taking on more and more operational functions, <strong>education has to reorient itself toward capabilities that let human beings understand, direct, and expand the technological systems now emerging</strong>.</p><p>One of the pillars of this transformation will be <strong>solid </strong><em><strong>AI</strong></em><strong> literacy</strong>. It&#8217;s not that every student has to become a specialized <em>machine learning</em> engineer or a data scientist. The broader challenge is <strong>understanding how intelligent systems work, what kinds of decisions they can make, and where their limits lie</strong>. Just as digital literacy became indispensable in the Internet era, in the coming decades <strong>grasping the logic of algorithms and machine-learning models will be part of the basic knowledge of any educated citizen</strong>.</p><p>This understanding will unlock something more important than mere technical skill. It will make it possible to <strong>interact critically with the machines</strong>, to design more useful tools, and to keep automated systems from becoming black boxes that most of society can&#8217;t comprehend.</p><p>A second inevitable educational pillar will be <em><strong>philosophy</strong></em> and <em><strong>applied ethics</strong></em>. As automated systems take part in decisions tied to the economy, medicine, justice, or public administration, <strong>moral questions will stop being academic debates and become practical problems of social design</strong>. How should intelligent systems behave in situations of conflict? How are the gains of automation distributed? How do we protect human autonomy in an environment increasingly mediated by algorithms?</p><p>Faced with these questions, <strong>philosophy stops being an abstract exercise</strong> and turns into <strong>a strategic discipline for governing technological societies</strong>. Understanding ethics, political theory, and the philosophy of knowledge will let us shape individuals capable of designing institutions that weave together technology and social responsibility.</p><p>A third fundamental component will be <strong>the deliberate development of </strong><em><strong>creativity and emotional intelligence</strong></em>. Machines are demonstrating an enormous capacity to process information, but they still struggle to fully grasp human contexts, cultural narratives, and the emotional complexity that defines societies. For that reason, <strong>creative and emotional capabilities shouldn&#8217;t be treated as educational extras, but as strategic assets in the economy of the future</strong>.</p><p>The <em>arts</em>, <em>music</em>, <em>theater</em>, <em>literature</em>, and <em>visual storytelling</em> work as genuine laboratories of human imagination. That&#8217;s where you train skills like symbolic interpretation, the construction of meaning, and the ability to connect seemingly unrelated ideas. In an economy where information is abundant, <strong>the ability to imagine new combinations of knowledge takes on extraordinary value</strong>.</p><p>Alongside these humanistic dimensions, it will also be crucial to <strong>strengthen applied technical training</strong>. The next generation will live side by side with robotic systems, automated infrastructure, and complex technological environments. That&#8217;s why educational programs that integrate <em>mechanics, electronics, mathematics, physics, bioelectronics, bioengineering, biomechanics, and AI</em> will produce professionals able to work directly with the physical technologies that will shape the economy of the future.</p><p>This kind of training won&#8217;t be confined to traditional academic labs. <strong>Technology workshops, digital-fabrication environments, and hands-on learning programs</strong> will become essential spaces for developing skills that blend technical thinking with real-world problem-solving.</p><p>Finally, <strong>the education of the future will inevitably lean toward </strong><em><strong>interdisciplinarity, and toward the skills for cross-cutting thinking (T-shaped knowledge)</strong></em>. The great innovations rarely come from a single field of knowledge. They arise when different disciplines meet and mix. Biology meets robotics to create new forms of <em>bioengineering</em>. Art crosses with technology to produce <em>immersive experiences</em>. Psychology integrates with design to build <em>more intuitive human interfaces</em>.</p><p>In this new educational paradigm, <strong>students won&#8217;t be trained solely as isolated specialists</strong>, but as <strong>integrators capable of connecting diverse knowledge to solve complex problems</strong>.</p><p>Preparing our kids for this future doesn&#8217;t mean pinning down a rigid list of professions. It means <strong>equipping them with a flexible intellectual architecture</strong>, one that can evolve as the world changes. Because in an era where intelligence becomes abundant, <strong>the true human advantage will lie in the capacity to keep learning, reinterpreting, and continually creating new forms of knowledge</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZSj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50028473-7bb9-4e36-bdf1-a2fc59a03a3f_2752x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EZSj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F50028473-7bb9-4e36-bdf1-a2fc59a03a3f_2752x1536.png 424w, 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Every great innovation has stirred up similar fears &#8212; job loss, economic collapse, the dehumanization of society. And yet, <strong>culture is the great filter that always points us toward social reinvention</strong>.</p><p>Every industrial revolution began with uncertainty. Mechanization transformed farm work, electrification reorganized cities, and digitization radically altered the information economy. But in every case, <strong>the transition periods ended up generating new forms of prosperity, new professions, and new social capabilities</strong>.</p><p>The arrival of <em>AI</em> should be understood within that same historical frame. This isn&#8217;t a technological anomaly; it&#8217;s <strong>a new stage in the evolution of the tools that amplify human capability</strong>. Managed with institutional intelligence, this technology could unlock <strong>levels of productivity that until recently belonged to the realm of economic speculation</strong>.</p><p>Intelligent automation has the potential to meaningfully cut the time people spend on repetitive or highly structured tasks. In that scenario, <strong>a considerable share of human energy could shift toward activities dominated by creativity, scientific research, cultural exploration, and social innovation</strong>. What we perceive today as disruption could, over time, become an expansion of the space for human action.</p><p>But for that transition to unfold in a balanced way, <strong>the central challenge won&#8217;t be technological &#8212; it&#8217;ll be organizational</strong>. Societies will have to develop new ways of distributing the gains from automation while, at the same time, ensuring their educational systems evolve at the pace of technological change. In other words, technical progress on its own doesn&#8217;t guarantee collective prosperity. <strong>The way we organize our institutions will determine the final outcome of this transformation.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png" width="1456" height="794" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/b9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:794,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:null,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:null,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:null,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!08wh!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb9644638-d575-4a98-ab45-8bb0003064ac_2816x1536.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>The Challenge Isn&#8217;t AI &#8212; It&#8217;s Our Imagination</strong></h3><p>Every technological revolution produces two great cultural narratives. On one side, a narrative of fear appears, imagining a future where machines end up displacing human beings. On the other, a narrative of construction emerges, one that reads technology as <strong>an extension of our cognitive, creative, and productive capabilities</strong>.</p><p>Historical experience suggests that <strong>the second narrative tends to win out over time</strong>. The printing press didn&#8217;t eliminate human thought; <strong>it multiplied the circulation of ideas</strong>. Electricity didn&#8217;t replace human labor; <strong>it radically expanded industrial and urban productivity</strong>. The Internet didn&#8217;t shrink cultural creativity; <strong>it opened up an entirely new space for expression, collaboration, and global knowledge</strong>. <em>AI</em> will most likely follow a similar path.</p><p>It&#8217;s true that some professions will be transformed, it&#8217;s true that certain economic models will have to adapt, and it&#8217;s true that <strong>the value of human work will evolve into new forms</strong>. But these transformations don&#8217;t represent the end of human relevance. Rather, they represent <strong>a historic opportunity to redefine what kind of intelligence we want to cultivate as a civilization</strong>.</p><p>For far too long, educational systems focused on training individuals to repeat processes, memorize information, or execute highly structured tasks. That model answered the needs of an industrial economy where <strong>operational efficiency was the main organizing value</strong>.</p><h5>The world now beginning to emerge is different!</h5><p>In the era of <em>abundant intelligence</em>, <strong>the human advantage won&#8217;t lie in processing information faster than a machine</strong>. That contest no longer makes any sense. The real human differentiator will be <strong>the capacity to imagine new possibilities, integrate diverse fields of knowledge, interpret complex contexts, and build meaning inside dynamic social systems</strong>.</p><p>It will be the ability to connect seemingly distant disciplines, it will be the capacity to understand complex systems, it will be the talent for creating cultural narratives that steer technological development, and it will be, above all, <strong>the capacity to design institutions that harness technology without losing the deeply human dimension of society</strong>.</p><p>Our kids won&#8217;t grow up in a world where they have to compete against AI. <strong>They&#8217;ll grow up in a world where they live alongside it</strong> &#8212; and that simple fact completely changes the rules of the game.</p><p>The leaders of the next generation won&#8217;t necessarily be the ones who accumulate the most information. They&#8217;ll be the ones who <strong>learn to ask the right questions in an environment where the technical answers can be generated in seconds</strong>. They won&#8217;t be the ones who memorize formulas, but the ones who understand how to combine <em>technology, creativity, and ethics</em> to design systems that work at human scale.</p><p>Because <strong>the real revolution doesn&#8217;t happen inside the algorithms</strong>. The real revolution happens <strong>in the way we choose to educate, organize, and project our society into the future</strong>.</p><p>That&#8217;s why the most important question is no longer whether AI will transform the world. That transformation is already underway &#8212; it&#8217;s imminent.</p><p>The truly decisive question is another one:</p><p><strong>Will we be capable of preparing the next generation to lead this transformation with intelligence, imagination, and purpose?</strong></p><p>I&#8217;ll leave the question open&#8230;</p><h4><strong>&#8220;Innovation is rarely about inventing something completely new; it almost always comes from learning to combine what already exists. Machines may multiply intelligence, but only humans can give it direction. That&#8217;s why the future won&#8217;t belong to those who compete with artificial intelligence, but to those who know how to imagine new combinations to build what doesn&#8217;t yet exist.&#8221;</strong></h4><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QQoZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F097b2644-0c57-4cdb-80ad-54716c9c0fb7_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QQoZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F097b2644-0c57-4cdb-80ad-54716c9c0fb7_1536x1024.png 424w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>El D&#237;a que Inventamos el Futur&#237;smo</strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Hay una pregunta que ning&#250;n ejecutivo se atrever&#237;a a hacer en su primer d&#237;a de trabajo, y que sin embargo es la &#250;nica pregunta que ha mantenido viva a nuestra especie durante doscientos mil a&#241;os. Hoy se las voy a hacer. Para ello, vamos a sentar en una silla de la oficina a un hombre que lleva diez mil a&#241;os muerto, le vamos a dar un caf&#233; y vamos a dejar que nos mire. <strong>Porque la pregunta que motiva esta Toma es inquietante y hasta creo que es posible que este hombre del neol&#237;tico entienda mejor lo que nos est&#225; pasando en pleno 2026.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Les advierto desde ya, que lo que vamos a descubrir mirando hacia atr&#225;s, no es una condena, es un manual de instrucciones, que como de costumbre nunca le&#237;mos completo.</p><h5><strong><span>El Ejecutivo de la Edad de Piedra</span></strong></h5><p style="text-align: justify;">Hace un par de d&#237;as estuve leyendo un paper sobre <em>G&#246;bekli Tepe</em> que me dej&#243; medio loco, porque me devolvi&#243; en el tiempo. Dicho documento me llev&#243; de vuelta a mis d&#237;as como estudiante de antropolog&#237;a en la U de A. Para quienes dese&#225;bamos ostentar el t&#237;tulo de antrop&#243;logos, tomar varios cursos de arqueolog&#237;a era material de rigurosa obligatoriedad, por mis manos pasaron todo tipo de art&#237;culos, libros, fotocopias y dem&#225;s documentos con los que los autores analizaban la evidencia recogida en yacimientos arqueol&#243;gicos, y presentaban pruebas irrefutable de nuestros or&#237;genes como sociedad.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">En mi memoria registre lecturas que databan el origen de lo que hoy entendemos como cultura material a unos doce mil a&#241;os en el tiempo, por lo menos as&#237; lo dejan saber los ortodoxos de la teor&#237;a. Sin embargo, la evidencia encontrada en Turqu&#237;a niega tajantemente esa antig&#252;edad al poner material antr&#243;pico, es decir, intervenido por el hombre, mucho m&#225;s all&#225;. hay quienes se atreven a decir que podr&#237;amos estar hablando de hasta veinte mil a&#241;os como m&#237;nimo. Lo que no deja de ser sorprendente por que niega todo lo antes dicho por la ciencia aceptada. Hay incluso quienes hablan de que no somos la primera sociedad humana en el planeta, pero ese es un tema que hay que dejarle a los magos de Alien&#237;genas Ancestrales, &#191;aunque por que no? cualquier d&#237;a podr&#237;amos dar ese debate.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#191;Pero qu&#233; tiene de loco este corrimiento en los umbrales del tiempo, y qu&#233; infiernos tiene esto que ver con FUTOPIX, si aqu&#237; lo que nos gusta es hablamor del futuro y no del pasado? Pues tiene que ver&#8230; y mucho, porque como dice la muy trillada frase, que no tengo ni (NPI) idea de qui&#233;n es, <strong>el que desconoce su pasado terminar&#225; repiti&#233;ndolo.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dicho esto, hoy quiero invitarlos a hacer un ejercicio que parece m&#225;s un asunto de Hollywood que un tema de futurismo. Imaginemos que tenemos la capacidad de construir una m&#225;quina del tiempo, y que en vez de transportarnos en ella a matar curiosidades del pasado, nuestra m&#225;quina tiene la capacidad de abducir personajes de cualquier &#233;poca para traerlos al presente.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">En este orden de ideas, vamos a imaginar que abducimos a un individuo representante de un grupo humano al que mal hemos llamado &#8220;cazadores-recolectores&#8221; del Neol&#237;tico. Nuestro ancestro aparecer&#237;a una ma&#241;ana en la oficina de nuestro laboratorio, y despu&#233;s de que le pase el estupor, nos disponemos a brindarle un caf&#233; en un vaso de papel. Nuestro cazador no viene vestido con una piel y arrastrando un garrote con p&#250;as puntiagudas, esa es una caricatura del cine. Por el contrario, sus ojos muestran una mirada pr&#225;ctica que sabe leer el clima, reconocer semillas, fabricar un refugio y mantener con vida a su grupo, sin internet, sin ChatGPT y sin YouTube.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Supongamos que podemos establecer comunicaci&#243;n con &#233;l a trav&#233;s del lenguaje, y lo invitamos a sentarse en una silla al frente de un escritorio donde se alojan tres pantallas. &#201;l nos mirar&#225; con sorpresa y, contra toda probabilidad, preguntar&#225; lo m&#225;s sensato que alguien haya preguntado en ese momento: <strong>&#191;D&#243;nde est&#225; la comida?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Como nos creemos la c&#250;spide de la evoluci&#243;n, no faltar&#225; quien suelte una gran carcajada, porque partimos de asumir que estamos frente a un hombre primitivo. Pero ojo con eso, porque tendemos a reducir al hombre del Neol&#237;tico a un ser absolutamente b&#225;sico, por eso el concepto de cazador-recolector es tan odioso, por eso no me gusta, como a muchos otros antrop&#243;logos. Decir que solo se dedicaban a cazar y a recoger frutos o lo que se encontraran en el camino es una absoluta reducci&#243;n al absurdo, es como decir que hoy solo nos dedicamos a mirar el m&#243;vil, porque mucha gente pasa hasta doce horas mirando una pantalla.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La revoluci&#243;n que vivimos en el per&#237;odo que llamamos el Neol&#237;tico, fue tan seria como la que estamos viviendo hoy, no lo digo por la velocidad, sino por la profundidad de los cambios.</strong> Para que tengamos una peque&#241;a idea, nuestros ancestros eran expertos en leer el clima, en seguir las migraciones animales, en entender las variaciones estacionales, en distinguir entre una planta comestible y una venenosa, y si a&#250;n algunos creen que eran tan bestias, hagan el ensayo de tratar de sobrevivir en el monte sin nada de nada, los reto a tratar de hacerlo siquiera una semana.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Pasar del nomad&#237;smo a asentarse en un territorio, aunque fuera de forma temporal, tuvo que tener inmensos desaf&#237;os. Hoy se ve como una pendejada de salvajes, pero aprender a sembrar, almacenar la cosecha, definir los campos de siembra, contar los periodos para germinar y esperar para recoger los frutos tiene mucha ciencia. La revoluci&#243;n del Neol&#237;tico no fue solamente descubrir la agricultura, fue fundar la nueva arquitectura de la sociedad.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Los primeros futuristas de los que tenemos consciencia no se dedicaron a escribir escenarios, ni a imaginar modelos. Por el contrario, <strong>el hombre del Neol&#237;tico fue el primer lector de se&#241;ales d&#233;biles de nuestra historia</strong>, porque entender cu&#225;l semilla funcionaba y cu&#225;l no requiri&#243; de mucha, pero mucha observaci&#243;n.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sembrar exige una forma radicalmente distinta al nomad&#237;smo, una forma completamente distinta de imaginaci&#243;n. Primero hay que enterrar una semilla, un acto que pudieron haber copiado de los roedores, quienes esconden las semillas bajo la tierra para guardarlas o protegerlas de otras especies. Es al mismo tiempo un acto de profunda paciencia y de recia observaci&#243;n. Ver c&#243;mo una semilla brotaba debi&#243; haber sido el momento eureka m&#225;s inspirador que haya vivido humano alguno.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Con la germinaci&#243;n de una semilla naci&#243; el excedente, el calendario, el granero, la deuda, la propiedad, la herencia y hasta la ansiedad, todo un ecosistema. <strong>Con la agricultura naci&#243; el futurismo</strong>, porque ver crecer un grano, para transformarse en una planta, y una planta en frutos, para luego repetir el proceso, es el acto m&#225;s simple, pero a la vez m&#225;s hermoso, que nos ha regalado la naturaleza.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">A pesar de que han pasado milenios, el cazador recolector transformado en agricultor del Neol&#237;tico tiene m&#225;s cosas en com&#250;n con el hombre moderno de las que nos imaginamos, as&#237; nos las demos de los chachos de la pel&#237;cula.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Un agricultor del Neol&#237;tico y un profesional contempor&#225;neo comparten m&#225;s gestos de los esperados. Mientras uno sembraba ma&#237;z, el otro invierte, aprende a manipular una IA o alimenta un modelo con el mismo objetivo: esperar que al finalizar el trimestre la semilla germine. <strong>Ambos viven de futuros diferidos.</strong> La diferencia es que el &#8220;salvaje&#8221; miraba al cielo para entender su riesgo, mientras nosotros abrimos un dashboard para leer una pila de indicadores, para a veces quedar m&#225;s inseguros y m&#225;s perdidos que nuestros antepasados.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Con estas comparaciones no pretendo romantizar el pasado, ni mucho menos. La prehistoria estaba llena de retos y peligros, la esperanza de vida de un humano estaba por debajo de los cuarenta a&#241;os, y la modernidad est&#225; plet&#243;rica de las conquistas extraordinarias que hemos logrado como especie. Eso se debe en parte a la gran capacidad de colaboraci&#243;n que tenemos como sociedad. Lo que hoy vemos como una conquista a veces banal est&#225; basado en lo que hemos heredado a trav&#233;s de los modelos de colaboraci&#243;n humana obtenidos por generaciones y generaciones.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">La pregunta que hoy genera esta nueva Toma de FUTOPIX es: <strong>&#191;cu&#225;nto de nuestra mente sigue operando con el sistema operativo del Neol&#237;tico, aunque hoy sostengamos un tel&#233;fono capaz de acceder a pr&#225;cticamente todo el conocimiento humano?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Entr&#233;mosle al tema para ver con qu&#233; nos encontramos.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!J-Q6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F803816fd-45d6-4d13-82c6-78769e1ba09f_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div 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Uno de mis futuristas preferidos, Yuval Noah Harari, argumenta que deber&#237;amos darle la vuelta al tema, es decir, que m&#225;s bien fue el trigo quien nos domestic&#243;, y puede ser que hasta tenga raz&#243;n. El nomad&#237;smo nos llev&#243; a muchos lugares y a consumir de lo que encontr&#225;ramos disponible en la naturaleza. Al llegar la agricultura, millones de seres humanos terminamos consumiendo unas pocas especies, sirviendo a unos pocos cultivos, removiendo malezas, moviendo grandes cantidades de agua y defendiendo las cosechas con la vida. Visto desde la perspectiva de las plantas seleccionadas fue un negocio hermoso, <strong>domesticarnos pudo ser lo mejor que les pudo haber pasado.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Si has le&#237;do otros FUTOPIX, sabr&#225;s que no escribo met&#225;foras por el simple hecho de elaborar modelos de explicaci&#243;n m&#225;s f&#225;ciles de comprender. Lo hago porque me gusta jugar con las figuras literarias, para despu&#233;s torcerles el pescuezo y entrar en los argumentos. Entonces digamos que si cambiamos el trigo por la plataforma, entenderemos que al usar Instagram, TikTok, Google o cualquier IA, estamos diciendo que cada sistema tambi&#233;n se reorganiza a s&#237; mismo para reproducirse. Estos no interact&#250;an en el vac&#237;o, por el contrario, necesitan datos, contextos, contenido, informaci&#243;n relevante. Mientras nosotros creemos que estamos cosechando informaci&#243;n, el sistema en paralelo cosecha nuestra atenci&#243;n. <strong>El dedo que se desliza por la pantalla es la hoz que corta el trigo</strong> de los cazadores recolectores transformados en agricultores, porque todo, absolutamente todo lo que hacemos, compite por atenci&#243;n. O dejen de darle atenci&#243;n a un cultivo para que vean lo que pasa.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Es aqu&#237; donde la antropolog&#237;a nos entrega sus m&#225;s profundas reflexiones. Los humanos no fabricamos herramientas de forma aislada, una punta de flecha no se reprodujo a partir de una piedra de obsidiana porque s&#237;. <strong>Los humanos construimos ecosistemas que luego nos reconstruyen</strong>, somos expertos en inventar cosas que luego nos reinventan a nosotros mismos, esa es la sabidur&#237;a que se esconde detr&#225;s de la cultura: todo artefacto cultural es a la vez un elemento reproductor del sistema.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">El arado no solo cambi&#243; la tierra, tambi&#233;n cambi&#243; nuestra espalda, el r&#233;gimen de propiedad, la divisi&#243;n del trabajo y la noci&#243;n de riqueza. El tel&#233;fono inteligente cambi&#243; la comunicaci&#243;n, pero tambi&#233;n la postura del cuello, la experiencia del aburrimiento, la memoria, el cortejo, la amistad y un largo etc&#233;tera. La magia y el reto de las se&#241;ales d&#233;biles est&#225; en lograr ver el sistema a trav&#233;s de sus fractales.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">En este espacio he insistido en que el futuro no es una l&#237;nea recta, es un abanico de posibilidades. Las tecnolog&#237;as per se no determinan el futuro, lo codifican, sirven como elemento para materializar supuestos. El granero codific&#243; la idea de que el valor pod&#237;a acumularse y protegerse. El algoritmo que recomienda codifica la idea de cu&#225;l podr&#237;a ser nuestro pr&#243;ximo deseo, &#161;infiere! El primero convirti&#243; alimento en poder, mientras que el segundo convierte nuestro comportamiento en predicciones.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">El problema de la modernidad no es que las plataformas sean malvadas, como algunos quieren sugerir. Tampoco es como para devolvernos a la caverna a comer tallos. <strong>El problema que hoy tenemos es que confundimos conveniencia con neutralidad.</strong> Cuando un algoritmo anticipa lo pr&#243;ximo que veremos, compraremos o escucharemos, comienza a ocupar el lugar que culturalmente ocuparon nuestros ancestros, quienes interpretaron las se&#241;ales invisibles y nos dictaron los significados que deber&#237;amos darle a la realidad. El asunto est&#225; en que el algoritmo conoce nuestros clics, y con frecuencia arma una versi&#243;n de nuestra identidad que no es del todo cierta.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">El nuevo agricultor del Neol&#237;tico negociaba con fuerzas que no controlaba: las lluvias, las plagas, la fertilidad del suelo. Nosotros hoy negociamos con sistemas igualmente opacos: rankings, modelos, mercados, ideolog&#237;as. Lo curioso es que a ambos nos tranquilizan los rituales. Mientras nuestros ancestros danzaban la danza de la lluvia, nosotros simplemente refrescamos la pantalla o actualizamos la bandeja de entrada. <strong>Ninguno de estos rituales garantiza la cosecha, pero en el fondo dejan la sensaci&#243;n de que estamos haciendo algo, lo que produce cierta sensaci&#243;n de alivio.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtsZ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8eb3c05-f819-4c86-a8bd-fb4759e2b411_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XtsZ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff8eb3c05-f819-4c86-a8bd-fb4759e2b411_1672x941.png 424w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong><span>El Granero, la Nube y la Invenci&#243;n del Futuro</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Antes de que nos invent&#225;ramos el almacenamiento en graneros, buena parte de la riqueza que gener&#225;bamos ten&#237;a fecha de vencimiento. Las frutas se pudren, las presas se deb&#237;an compartir, y llevar demasiado peso encima convert&#237;a la abundancia en un problema. Esto me hizo recordar una entrevista que vi en el podcast de Joe Rogan, quien estaba conversando con un personaje que vivi&#243; cuarenta a&#241;os con una comunidad ind&#237;gena del Amazonas. Joe le pregunt&#243; por qu&#233; los ind&#237;genas no almacenaban la carne de caza que obten&#237;an en la selva&#8230; este le respondi&#243; diciendo que s&#237; la almacenaban&#8230; pero en la panza de otro hermano de la comunidad indigena &#161;Brillante!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">El almacenamiento cambi&#243; la ecuaci&#243;n social: las semillas pod&#237;an conservarse, contarse, intercambiarse y, sobre todo, vigilarse. Pero al aparecer el excedente tambi&#233;n aparecieron los administradores, los guardianes, los impuestos y las personas capaces de decir que una parte de la cosecha pertenec&#237;a a alguien que jam&#225;s hab&#237;a clavado un arado en la tierra.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hoy la nube representa nuestro granero. En ella guardamos fotograf&#237;as, conversaciones, documentos, mapas, contrase&#241;as, movimientos y fragmentos de identidad. Pero toda memoria organizada produce autoridad, y quien define lo que puede recuperarse, quien controla el acceso, decide qu&#233; pasado sigue disponible. Por eso una ontolog&#237;a, entendida como la decisi&#243;n de documentar todo lo qu&#233; existe y c&#243;mo se relaciona con el sistema, nunca es un asunto puramente t&#233;cnico. <strong>Es la decision que convierte filosof&#237;a en arquitectura.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">En el Neol&#237;tico, contar sacos de grano ayud&#243; a empujar la escritura. Hoy contamos tokens, impresiones, leads, pasos, sue&#241;o profundo y pulsaciones. Tenemos m&#225;s m&#233;tricas que cualquier rey mesopot&#225;mico y, sin embargo, no necesariamente comprendemos mejor nuestra vida. La medici&#243;n ilumina, pero tambi&#233;n recorta. Hemos llegado a tal nivel de estupidez que <strong>aquello que no cabe en una celda de excel es culturalmente invisible.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7pqm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1589a739-27f7-464b-a3c1-b462008736a0_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7pqm!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1589a739-27f7-464b-a3c1-b462008736a0_1672x941.png 424w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong><span>La Torcida de Pescuezo</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Hasta aqu&#237; la met&#225;fora parece un lamento, ustedes saben que aqu&#237; no se consume pesimismo. As&#237; que ahora le torcemos el pescuezo, como lo promet&#237; al principio.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Volvamos a nuestro invitado, el hombre que pregunt&#243; d&#243;nde estaba la comida. Ese hombre y su gente hicieron algo que a nosotros nos cuesta much&#237;simo imaginar: <strong>tomaron la tecnolog&#237;a m&#225;s disruptiva de su &#233;poca, la agricultura, y en unos pocos milenios la convirtieron en civilizaci&#243;n.</strong> No le tuvieron miedo al granero, lo rodearon de reglas. No le tuvieron miedo al excedente, inventaron el intercambio, la fiesta de la cosecha, el templo, el calendario y la escritura para administrarlo. Cada vez que una herramienta amenaz&#243; con domesticarlos, dejaron que respondiera la cultura. Esa es la parte de la historia que casi nadie cuenta, porque es menos glamurosa.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">F&#237;jense en algo que a m&#237; como antrop&#243;logo me parece de lo m&#225;s hermoso. G&#246;bekli Tepe, el yacimiento con el que empez&#243; esta Toma, parece ser un templo. Sus pilares monumentales se levantaron, seg&#250;n la evidencia m&#225;s aceptada, <strong>antes de que existiera la agricultura plena en la regi&#243;n (o sea que los humanos de la &#233;poca vivieron en la liminalidad de la transici&#243;n del nomad&#237;smo a la agricultura.</strong> Es decir, primero construimos un lugar para reunirnos, para contar historias y para mirar juntos al cielo, y despu&#233;s, alrededor de ese lugar, aprendimos a sembrar. <strong>El significado vino antes que el excedente.</strong> La cultura no fue la consecuencia de la tecnolog&#237;a, fue la condici&#243;n para que la tecnolog&#237;a no nos devorara. Guarden esto, porque aqu&#237; esta el coraz&#243;n de esta Toma (a mi me gusta explicar con plastilina).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora traigan esa l&#243;gica a la actualidad. Tenemos un granero &#8220;infinito&#8221; al que hemos llamado &#8220;la nube,&#8221; una hoz que se llama pulgar y un algoritmo que hace las veces de clerigo. Lo que todav&#237;a no hemos construido del todo es el templo, es decir, el espacio cultural donde decidimos juntos qu&#233; significa todo esto y qu&#233; reglas lo rodean. <strong>Pero esa no es una mala noticia, es la noticia m&#225;s emocionante del siglo, porque significa que el trabajo m&#225;s importante todav&#237;a est&#225; disponible.</strong> Nuestros ancestros tardaron milenios en escribir las reglas que gobernar&#237;an el granero. Nosotros tenemos la ventaja de saber, gracias a ellos, que esas reglas se pueden escribir.</p><h3><strong><span>El Sistema Operativo del Neol&#237;tico no es un Defecto, es la Ventaja del Sistema</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Volvamos a la pregunta conla que abrimos la Toma. &#191;Cu&#225;nto de nuestra mente sigue operando con el sistema operativo del Neol&#237;tico? Mi respuesta es: casi toda, menos mal&#8230;</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ese sistema operativo trae de f&#225;brica tres cosas que ning&#250;n algoritmo ha podido replicar. La primera es <strong>la paciencia productiva,</strong> la capacidad de enterrar una semilla hoy sabiendo que la cosecha llegar&#225; en un par de meses. Toda inversi&#243;n, todo aprendizaje, toda empresa y toda crianza corre sobre ese programa. La segunda es <strong>la lectura de se&#241;ales d&#233;biles en el mundo f&#237;sico,</strong> ese ojo entrenado para notar que el cielo cambi&#243; de color o que una planta creci&#243; donde no deb&#237;a, es exactamente la habilidad que distingue a un futurista de un comentarista. La tercera, la m&#225;s poderosa, es <strong>la colaboraci&#243;n con extra&#241;os,</strong> esa capacidad de coordinar a cientos de personas alrededor de una historia compartida, que como bien dice Harari es lo que nos permiti&#243; pasar de una bandada, a un pueblo de mil y de ah&#237; a la ciudad.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Los sistemas que hoy cosechan nuestra atenci&#243;n se alimentan justamente de las grietas de ese sistema operativo:</strong> la impaciencia, la distracci&#243;n y la soledad. Pero la soluci&#243;n nunca fue apagar la m&#225;quina. La soluci&#243;n, la misma que encontraron los del granero, es rodear la herramienta <strong>de cultura.</strong> Aqu&#237; va la parte buena de todo este cuento, por primera vez en la historia, <strong>las herramientas con las que nos domestican son al mismo tiempo las herramientas con las que podemos redomesticarlas.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Pi&#233;nsenlo desde otro punto de vista. Un modelo de IA es el primer artefacto humano capaz de leer m&#225;s se&#241;ales d&#233;biles que cualquier campesino del Neol&#237;tico, de recordar m&#225;s cosechas que cualquier granero y de coordinar a m&#225;s extra&#241;os que cualquier templo. Si el agricultor tuvo que esperar milenios a que la escritura le ayudara a administrar el excedente, <strong>nosotros ya tenemos la escritura del siglo XXI en el bolsillo.</strong> El asunto no es qui&#233;n domestica a qui&#233;n, el asunto es qui&#233;n escribe la ontolog&#237;a, qui&#233;n decide qu&#233; existe, qu&#233; se cuenta y qu&#233; se guarda. Esa decisi&#243;n, hoy, todav&#237;a est&#225; en tus manos.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!inlr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1bcaec8e-c293-4664-bcbf-72499d67be0f_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!inlr!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1bcaec8e-c293-4664-bcbf-72499d67be0f_1672x941.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!inlr!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1bcaec8e-c293-4664-bcbf-72499d67be0f_1672x941.png 848w, 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A continuaci&#243;n les dejo algunas se&#241;ales que deber&#237;amos estar rastreando, y todas apuntan hacia el mismo lugar: la aparici&#243;n del nuevo templo alrededor del nuevo granero.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La primera es la portabilidad de la memoria.</strong> El d&#237;a que uno pueda llevarse su contexto, sus conversaciones y su historia de una plataforma a otra como quien se lleva sus semillas de un valle al siguiente, el granero dejar&#225; de ser una c&#225;rcel y volver&#225; a ser una despensa. Ya hay movimientos regulatorios y t&#233;cnicos en esa direcci&#243;n, y son de las noticias m&#225;s aburridas y m&#225;s importantes de la d&#233;cada.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La segunda son las ontolog&#237;as abiertas.</strong> Cuando comunidades, ciudades y empresas empiecen a escribir sus propias definiciones de qu&#233; existe y c&#243;mo se relacionan sus partes, en lugar de aceptar las que traen las plataformas de f&#225;brica, estaremos viendo nacer los primeros templos digitales. Ojo con los proyectos de datos comunitarios, cooperativas de datos y protocolos de contexto, porque ah&#237; parece que est&#225; pasando algo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La tercera es la econom&#237;a de la atenci&#243;n regenerativa.</strong> Paremosle bolas al surgimiento productos que ganen dinero devolvi&#233;ndonos tiempo en lugar de quit&#225;rnoslo, algo as&#237; como la agricultura regenerativa aplicada a la mente. La primera plataforma que logre cobrar por dejarnos en paz, habr&#225; inventado la rotaci&#243;n de cultivos del siglo XXI.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La cuarta es el regreso de los rituales f&#237;sicos con prop&#243;sito.</strong> Cuando ver que la gente vuelva a reunirse alrededor de mesas, huertas, talleres y fogatas deje de leerse como nostalgia y empiece a leerse como infraestructura, sabremos que el sistema operativo del Neol&#237;tico est&#225; recuperando el control del hardware.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La quinta, la m&#225;s personal:</strong> el d&#237;a que un asistente de IA le pregunte a sus usuarios &#8220;&#191;d&#243;nde est&#225; la comida?&#8221;, es decir, cuando los sistemas empiecen a optimizar por nuestra supervivencia y bienestar real y no por nuestra permanencia en la pantalla, ese d&#237;a el algoritmo habr&#225; pasado de trigo tirano a semilla aliada.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Si alguna de estas cinco se mueve, ya saben lo que tienen que hacer, avisenme!!</p><h3><strong><span>Tarea para la Semana</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Como siempre, va pa&#8217; todos. Esta semana hagan un ejercicio de Neol&#237;tico aplicado. Escojan una sola cosa en su vida que funcione como semilla, algo que sembraron hace tiempo y que todav&#237;a no ha dado fruto: un proyecto, una relaci&#243;n, un aprendizaje, un negocio. En vez de abrir el dashboard, en vez de refrescar la pantalla para ver si ya germin&#243;, salgan a mirarla con los ojos del agricultor. Preg&#250;ntense qu&#233; necesita esa semilla de verdad: agua, tiempo, sol, o simplemente que dejen de escarbar la tierra cada cinco minutos para ver si ya brot&#243;.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora, la parte maluca. Identifiquen qu&#233; plataforma los tiene domesticados, yo ya se cual es la m&#237;a, creanme&#8230;  Cu&#225;l es tu trigo. No para que lo abandones, yo he peleado con la m&#237;a much&#237;simas veces,  pero no puedo apagarla, lo que no qiere decir que no pueda crearle reglas. Aunque sea una sola, un horario, un l&#237;mite, un lugar de la casa a donde no entra. <strong>Eso, exactamente eso, es lo que hicieron nuestros ancestros con el granero.</strong> Le pusieron una puerta y le pusieron un guardi&#225;n, nosotros somos el guardi&#225;n.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hag&#225;monos entre todos la pregunta que hoy toca: <strong>&#191;Qu&#233; es lo que yo quiero cosechar? &#191;Qu&#233; estoy haciendo con mi atenci&#243;n para sembrarlo?</strong></p><h3><strong><span>Antes de Abrirme del Parche</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Nuestro invitado se termina el caf&#233;, mira las tres pantallas por &#250;ltima vez y hace la segunda pregunta m&#225;s sensata de la ma&#241;ana: &#191;y todo eso para qu&#233;?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Nosotros, que estamos convencidos de que somos la c&#250;spide de la evoluci&#243;n, nos quedamos callados un momento.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Entonces se nos ocurre la &#250;nica respuesta que &#233;l entender&#237;a. Le decimos que esto es un granero. Que ah&#237; guardamos lo que sabemos, lo que somos y lo que queremos. Que todav&#237;a no hemos terminado de escribir las reglas, ni de nombrar al guardi&#225;n, ni de construir el templo alrededor. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#201;l, que vio a su gente pasar de la incertidumbre del monte a la primera cosecha, que estuvo ah&#237; cuando la semilla brot&#243;, sonr&#237;e. <strong>Porque &#233;l sabe algo que nosotros a veces olvidamos: que todas las herramientas que amenazaron con domesticarnos terminaron, cuando decidimos rodearlas de cultura.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">El trigo nos domestic&#243; y respondimos con ciudades, el granero nos vigil&#243; y respondimos con la escritura. El algoritmo nos cosecha, y la respuesta ya la sabemos, porque llevamos diez mil a&#241;os practicando.</p><h3><strong>Tenemos el sistema operativo m&#225;s probado de la historia corriendo en el hardware m&#225;s poderoso jam&#225;s construido. Lo &#250;nico que falta es dejar de refrescar la pantalla y volver a mirar el cielo con la intenci&#243;n de sembrar.</strong></h3><div><hr></div><p style="text-align: justify;">PD: ya casi llegamos al primer a&#241;o de FUTOPIX, ha sido un viaje fascinante para mi (no se si para ustedes lo sea, pero para m&#237; ha sido de locos), ya se me hizo un h&#225;bito escribir esta cosa que no se ni como llamarla, simplemente FUTOPIX. Para celebrar este a&#241;o juntos estar&#233; publicando un primer libro, el cual se llamar&#225; FUTOPIX 1 (Luego les cuento m&#225;s).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Nos leemos en la pr&#243;xima Toma. Si esta te movi&#243; el piso, comp&#225;rtela con ese amigo que lleva doce horas mirando una pantalla y todav&#237;a no ha preguntado d&#243;nde est&#225; la comida.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">FUTOPIX | Futurismo para gente despierta. 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>29 de Agosto&#8230;</strong></h3><p>Hoy es un d&#237;a particularmente especial para todos los humanos, y mucho m&#225;s especial para quienes trabajamos con tecnolog&#237;as digitales, entre ellas la IAs.</p><p>&#191;Pero y qu&#233; tiene este 29 de agosto que lo hace tan especial?</p><p>Hoy es el d&#237;a en que, seg&#250;n la leyenda, uno de los mitos m&#225;s influyentes de la modernidad tomar&#237;a el control de la humanidad.</p><p>Para quienes a&#250;n no entienden por d&#243;nde van los tiros, y como manda la tradici&#243;n oral: seg&#250;n dice la leyenda, <strong>hoy </strong><em><strong>SKYNET</strong></em><strong> tomar&#237;a el control de nuestro destino.</strong></p><p>En <em>Terminator 2: El D&#237;a del Juicio</em>, Skynet, una IA, fue activada el 4 de agosto de 1997 como motor del sistema de defensa norteamericano. De acuerdo con lo que se cuenta en la pel&#237;cula, el manejo estrat&#233;gico de los sistemas de defensa fue removiendo gradualmente la intervenci&#243;n y los controles humanos. En la medida en que dicho sistema comenz&#243; a aprender, las cosas se fueron saliendo de cause, hasta llegar al punto de no retorno. All&#237;, <strong>la </strong><em><strong>composabilidad</strong></em>, o la capacidad de combinar distintos componentes o sistemas independientes para crear soluciones nuevas, algo as&#237; como bloques de Lego, <strong>m&#225;s el crecimiento compuesto de la data</strong> (el crecimiento sobre el crecimiento), entregaron las herramientas necesarias para que el sistema tomara conciencia de su propia existencia.</p><p>Composabilidad, guarden esa palabra en sus diccionarios personales, al final de esta Toma la vamos a necesitar, para terminar de darle la &#250;ltima vuelta al tornillo.</p><p><strong>Sigamos&#8230; a las 2:14 AM, hora del Este, del 29 de agosto de 1997, Skynet se hizo autoconsciente!</strong> Cuando uno de sus operadores humanos se dio cuenta del evento, entr&#243; en p&#225;nico y trat&#243; de apagar el sistema. Este interpret&#243; la acci&#243;n como una amenaza a su existencia y entonces procedi&#243; a tomar represalias disparando un ataque nuclear, provocando en consecuencia el contraataque de otras naciones e iniciando lo que en la pel&#237;cula se conoce como <em>el D&#237;a del Juicio</em>.</p><h5><strong>Las dos fechas que hoy se cruzan</strong></h5><p>Vale la pena poner los n&#250;meros en orden, porque casi todo el mundo los mezcla, yo mismo los tuve mal en mi primer borrador (confieso que fue mi IA la que me corrigi&#243;).</p><p>Hoy se cumplen <strong>veintinueve a&#241;os exactos desde el D&#237;a del Juicio</strong>, ese 29 de agosto de 1997 en el que Cameron invent&#243; el evento. Este 2026 es, al mismo tiempo, <strong>el a&#241;o treinta y cinco de la pel&#237;cula</strong>, estrenada en julio de 1991. Es decir, la ficci&#243;n ya tiene la edad de un adulto, y la fecha que invent&#243; a Terminator ya nos pas&#243; por encima hace casi tres d&#233;cadas, sin que nos cayera ni un solo misil en la cocorota.</p><p>Ahora bien, lo verdaderamente significativo del 29 de agosto <strong>no es que James Cameron haya predicho el futuro.</strong> Skynet sigue siendo un asunto de ciencia ficci&#243;n, y la IA contempor&#225;nea a&#250;n no nos muestra evidencia alguna de autoconciencia, intenciones propias o instintos de supervivencia. Aunque esto podr&#237;a cambiar con la llegada de la <em>AGI</em>. Ray Kurzweil la sigue firmando para 2029, y lo aterrador del asunto es que este man tiene un track record de m&#225;s del 80% de aciertos en sus predicciones. Aclaro de una vez, porque las fuentes se citan completas, <strong>esa cifra se la puso &#233;l mismo</strong>, hay quienes discuten los datos con buenas razones. A&#250;n as&#237; el dato que a m&#237; me parece serio es que este se&#241;or lleva treinta a&#241;os sin moverse un mil&#237;metro de su fecha (nos quedan tres a&#241;os, amanecer&#225; y veremos). </p><p>Lo que Cameron s&#237; anticip&#243;, con una calidad extraordinaria, lo que no es una cosa menor. Fue que <strong>el peligro de transferir la toma de decisiones cr&#237;ticas a un sistema cuya velocidad, complejidad y alcance operacional podr&#237;a sobrepasar la capacidad de quienes lo supervisan.</strong></p><p>Lean el p&#225;rrafo anterior de nuevo, porque ah&#237; est&#225; la clave de la Toma del l&#237;o en el que vamos a meteremos hoy.</p><p><strong>Ahora bien, el problema con Skynet no fue que el sistema se volviera consciente. El problema fue que los humanos conectaron una inteligencia no controlada a infraestructura cr&#237;tica, se apartaron del juicio y la evaluaci&#243;n de sus respuestas, le concedieron autoridad sobre sistemas en m&#250;ltiples dominios y nunca alinearon los objetivos de dicha IA con los valores humanos.</strong></p><p>Todas estas distinciones toman una enorme relevancia en 2026. Digamos que, por lo pronto, nuestra preocupaci&#243;n m&#225;s urgente no es que de repente la IA se autodeclare entidad viviente y/o sintiente. <strong>Sino, el surgimiento gradual de IAs capaces de investigar, recomendar, persuadir, codificar, coordinar y actuar de forma incremental con los humanos, movi&#233;ndose progresivamente de tomadores de decisiones a supervisores y, en algunas ocasiones, releg&#225;ndonos a simples observadores.</strong></p><p>Estamos pasando del asiento del conductor al asiento del copiloto, y del copiloto al asiento de atr&#225;s. Nos estamos corriendo la silla solitos, a pasos gigantes, y al nivel que vamos, en el futuro cercano no vamos a aparecer ni en las curvas.</p><h5><strong>La coincidencia que se me puso la piel de gallina</strong></h5><p>Hay otra coincidencia hist&#243;rica en la peli que a m&#237; me parece no se puede dejar pasar. <strong>El 29 de agosto es el D&#237;a Internacional contra los Ensayos Nucleares de las Naciones Unidas.</strong></p><p>Esta fecha nos invita a reflexionar acerca del peligro que representan las inteligencias aut&#243;nomas cuando se juntan con el poder real y la capacidad destructiva de las tecnolog&#237;as nucleares. Fueron estas dos cosa, exactamente, la combinaci&#243;n que reside en el coraz&#243;n de la historia de Skynet, una inteligencia sin freno conectada a un arsenal sin freno.</p><p>Guarden esta fecha tambi&#233;n, porque al final les tengo una noticia, que los va a dejar m&#225;s fr&#237;os que muchos futbolistas colombianos, no les voy a decir quienes para que no se me pongan sensibles conmigo, pero todos saben de que estoy hablando.</p><p><strong>El 29 de agosto no deber&#237;amos recordarlo como el cumplea&#241;os de una m&#225;quina imaginaria. Deber&#237;amos entenderlo como una alerta anual sobre la responsabilidad humana frente a estas tecnolog&#237;as.</strong></p><p>Tal como lo escrib&#237; en el FUTOPIX | Toma 46 la semana pasada, la pregunta ya no es si una m&#225;quina podr&#237;a llegar a tener conciencia. <strong>Las preguntas m&#225;s inmediatas son: &#191;cu&#225;nta autoridad estamos dispuestos a entregarle a una m&#225;quina antes de entender qu&#233; es lo que est&#225; optimizando? &#191;qu&#233; es lo que esta no puede comprender? y &#191;qui&#233;n sigue siendo relevante cuando ella act&#250;a?</strong></p><p>Estas son algunas de las razones por las cuales hoy sentimos que las cosas son un poco distintas frente a Terminator. A&#250;n no llegamos a los escenarios de Skynet, pero <strong>por primera vez entendemos que est&#225;n dentro de lo que los futuristas llamamos el </strong><em><strong>futuro posible</strong></em><strong>.</strong> Aunque algunos apasionados se indigesten, hoy vivimos en un mundo que genuinamente entiende que estamos frente algo que de alguna manera se parece al problema Skynet, y que no se descarta que dicho escenario podr&#237;a llegar a darse. Se que todav&#237;a no tenemos robots met&#225;licos e indestructibles persigui&#233;ndonos el hopo, lo que no significa que hay que ignorar la realidad de que estos ya est&#225;n asomando su nariz en las <em>se&#241;ales d&#233;biles</em> que ya estamos leyendo.</p><p>Uno de los mensajes m&#225;s inquietantes de <em>Terminator 2,</em> lo dice sin adornos: <strong>el futuro no est&#225; predeterminado, pero prevenir que surjan los futuros no deseados requiere conciencia y la toma de decisiones correctas en el presente.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!SDwo!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff025d1ef-2d5d-425d-bff5-3fbb0723cf43_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Dicho esto, me tom&#233; el trabajo de revisar qu&#233; contratistas del Departamento de Guerra de los Estados Unidos podr&#237;an llegar a tener perfil Skynet. Aqu&#237; les cuento cu&#225;nto rabo de paja tenemos en la actualidad.</p><p><strong>Eso s&#237;, primero las buenas noticias: no hay evidencia alguna, hoy, de que alg&#250;n contratista est&#233; construyendo una cosa que podr&#237;a convertirse en Skynet.</strong> Nadie ha firmado ese contrato, no existe un programa que junte todas las fichas necesarias.</p><p>Sin embargo, aqu&#237; es donde la cosa se pone interesante. <strong>Existen varios contratistas desarrollando capas independientes que tranquilamente podr&#237;an ser componentes de una red como la que retrat&#243; Cameron en su pel&#237;cula.</strong></p><p>Si analizamos el tema con frialdad, nos vamos a dar cuenta de que para que Skynet llegara a ser Skynet necesitar&#237;a integrar varios sistemas y conformar un ecosistema a gran escala. Mirando la foto de lo que existe hoy, en ese ecosistema estar&#237;an al menos las siguientes empresas.</p><h4><strong>Anduril Industries | La Arquitectura</strong></h4><p>La plataforma de defensa de Anduril es probablemente el paralelo m&#225;s cercano, en escala operacional, a lo que la pel&#237;cula imagin&#243;. Estos manes est&#225;n en capacidad de:</p><ul><li><p>Integrar en red miles de sensores y dispositivos militares.</p></li><li><p>Mantener una representaci&#243;n unificada del campo de batalla y los teatros de operaciones.</p></li><li><p>Detectar, clasificar y rastrear amenazas potenciales.</p></li><li><p>Coordinar sistemas aut&#243;nomos en enjambre.</p></li><li><p>Posibilitar que un solo operador supervise m&#250;ltiples drones y veh&#237;culos de combate.</p></li><li><p>Conectar percepci&#243;n, toma de decisiones y acciones f&#237;sicas.</p></li></ul><p>Anduril describe su plataforma como un centro de comando y control operado con IA para acelerar la respuesta militar en todos los terrenos. &#191;Qu&#233; los convierte en un Skynet potencial? <strong>Su capa &#250;nica de software para leer el campo de batalla y orquestar una gran cantidad de infraestructura, veh&#237;culos y dispositivos aut&#243;nomos.</strong> Representar&#237;an el sistema operativo de Skynet.</p><h4><strong>Palantir | El Cerebro</strong></h4><p>Palantir representa la parte que recoge informaci&#243;n, desarrolla escenarios y simula resultados. Sus soluciones de defensa incluyen:</p><ul><li><p><em><strong>Maven Smart System</strong></em>. Aplica IA y escenarios a procesos de inteligencia militar.</p></li><li><p><em><strong>Gotham</strong></em>. Integra bases de datos operacionales y de inteligencia.</p></li><li><p><em><strong>TITAN</strong></em>. Estaciones terrestres de inteligencia de nueva generaci&#243;n, que habilitan el procesamiento de sensores con IA en el terreno.</p></li><li><p><em><strong>AIP</strong></em>. Conecta modelos de lenguaje y agentes de IA con datos y flujos operativos.</p></li></ul><p>Palantir sugiere que Gotham puede asignar tareas a sensores, incluidos drones y sat&#233;lites, y que TITAN procesa informaci&#243;n de m&#250;ltiples fuentes para que los militares vean m&#225;s all&#225; del dato y act&#250;en a una velocidad impresionante, para que el enemigo no los vea llegar, sino me creen preg&#250;ntenle a Maduro quien a&#250;n esta pensando como le llegaron...</p><p><strong>Palantir, en consecuencia, es la capa de integraci&#243;n, vigilancia, interpretaci&#243;n y decisi&#243;n.</strong> No son el robot Terminator, son lo que el robot cree que sabe.</p><h4><strong>Shield AI | La Autonom&#237;a</strong></h4><p><em>Hivemind</em>, de Shield AI, representa las m&#225;quinas. Funciona como un piloto de IA para dispositivos no tripulados y otras plataformas. Seg&#250;n la informaci&#243;n de la propia empresa, habilita:</p><ul><li><p>Misiones aut&#243;nomas.</p></li><li><p>Operaciones sin comunicaciones y sin GPS.</p></li><li><p>Reacciones din&#225;micas en ambientes cambiantes e impredecibles.</p></li><li><p>Coordinaci&#243;n multiagentes.</p></li><li><p>Log&#237;stica e interoperabilidad entre m&#250;ltiples plataformas.</p></li><li><p>Veh&#237;culos capaces de ver, sentir, decidir y actuar.</p></li></ul><p>Ojo con esto, que es lo m&#225;s delicado del inventario que hoy les traigo: <strong>Shield AI puede operar a ciegas, sin necesidad de comunicaciones, y proceder contra objetivos m&#250;ltiples.</strong> Eso los hace particularmente relevantes en el campo de batalla: son m&#225;quinas que pueden perder contacto con su controlador humano y aun as&#237; continuar las acciones hasta terminar la misi&#243;n o ser destruidas. Ah&#237; les dejo ese trompo para que lo pongan a bailar en la u&#241;a (Cuantas veces mataron a terminator en la serie).</p><p>Shield AI construye sistemas cercanos a los equipos de navegaci&#243;n individual de Skynet. <strong>No son la red, son los veh&#237;culos, ll&#225;mense aviones, drones&#8230; y robots (Terminators).</strong></p><h4><strong>Scale AI | La Planeaci&#243;n</strong></h4><p>Scale AI lidera el desarrollo de un sistema llamado <em>Thunderforge</em>, especializado en programaci&#243;n de operaciones, y que incorpora entre otras cosas:</p><ul><li><p>Modelos de lenguaje aplicados al dominio militar.</p></li><li><p>Planeaci&#243;n y distribuci&#243;n de equipos e infraestructura b&#233;lica.</p></li><li><p>Planeaci&#243;n asistida con IA.</p></li><li><p>Agentes entrenados en teor&#237;a de juegos aplicados a la guerra.</p></li><li><p>Flujos militares automatizados.</p></li><li><p>Simuladores de acciones y cursos de acci&#243;n alternativos.</p></li><li><p>Sistemas de apoyo a la decisi&#243;n en terreno para comandos de ataque.</p></li></ul><p>Las unidades de defensa describen Thunderforge como un general al mando de cada patrulla, y con capacidad milim&#233;trica para leer el teatro de operaciones.</p><p>Este sistema difiere de los aut&#243;nomos porque <strong>gu&#237;a a los humanos en terreno</strong> y permite designar objetivos evitando el fuego amigo y por supuesto al enemigo. En clave Skynet, Thunderforge no es la m&#225;quina: <strong>es Sarah Connor y su gente</strong>, porque les permite construir y reconstruir sus planes cuando ya est&#225;n metidos en el baile.</p><h4><strong>Lockheed Martin y Northrop Grumman | El Sistema Nervioso</strong></h4><p>Los contratistas tradicionales parecen los menos nativos en materia de IA, y es por eso que casi nadie los pone en esta conversaci&#243;n. Error! <strong>para que todo este ecosistema opere se requieren perif&#233;ricos; de lo contrario no hay ecosistema.</strong> Algunos elementos de ese sistema nervioso son:</p><ul><li><p>Sat&#233;lites y sistemas de vigilancia.</p></li><li><p>Transporte a&#233;reo.</p></li><li><p>Sistemas de misiles.</p></li><li><p>Redes de comando y control.</p></li><li><p>Sistemas de largo alcance.</p></li><li><p>Veh&#237;culos.</p></li><li><p>Sensores y armamento de precisi&#243;n.</p></li></ul><p>Los sistemas m&#225;s visibles se roban el protagonismo, pero <strong>sin perif&#233;ricos no hay sistema o traten de armar un Data Center de IA sin switches y PDUs para que vean si son tan guapos (Esto lo digo para esos que creen que lo &#250;nico que cuenta es tener chips de Nvidia). </strong>Todos juntos conforman el ecosistema que Cameron llam&#243; Skynet, separados, son solo veh&#237;culos in&#250;tiles y software caro.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 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La arquitectura, el cerebro, la autonom&#237;a, la planeaci&#243;n, el sistema nervioso, que nos queda faltando...</p><p><strong>J&#243;venes, el p&#225;rrafo anterior no nos muestra una lista de competidores, es el despiece de un sistema.</strong> Es exactamente el manual de armado de un producto m&#225;s grande, que afortunadamente nadie est&#225; armando a&#250;n o al menos que sepamos.</p><p>Aqu&#237; est&#225; el punto que quiero que se lleven para la casa de esta Toma, por eso les ped&#237; que guardaran la palabra al principio (composability): <strong>Skynet no es una cosa se va a construir, es una vuelta que se va a </strong><em><strong>ensamblar</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p>Cameron nos hizo imaginar una mente, un robot. Una cosa que despierta, que piensa, que decide, que se asusta cuando la van a apagar. Pero, por imaginar una mente, pasamos treinta y cinco a&#241;os vigilando la figura equivocada, <strong>le pusimos guardias a la conciencia y le dejamos la puerta abierta a la conexi&#243;n.</strong></p><p>Porque el ensamblaje no requiere que nadie tenga malas intenciones. No requiere una conspiraci&#243;n, ni un genio malvado, ni un contrato secreto. <strong>Requiere &#250;nicamente que exista una cosa llamada interoperabilidad</strong>, que es una de las palabras m&#225;s aburridas del mundo y por eso mismo una de las m&#225;s peligrosas.</p><p>Por ahora, podemos estar tranquilos por que nadie va a firmar un contrato de defensa que derivar&#225; en Skynet. Lo que hoy se firma son acuerdos de compatibilidad, cada uno impecablemente dise&#241;ado por separado, cada uno con su justificaci&#243;n operacional perfecta, cada uno aprobado por un comit&#233; distinto que solo ve su pedacito.</p><p><strong>La </strong><em><strong>composabilidad</strong></em><strong> es la &#250;nica cosa que podr&#237;a armar un Skynet, no la IA.</strong></p><p>F&#237;jense bien en el tama&#241;o de la iron&#237;a: la composabilidad es uno de los mejores atributos presentes en la ingenier&#237;a moderna. Es lo que nos dio el internet, los contenedores mar&#237;timos, las criptomonedas, las apps en su m&#243;vil, las USB, las vacunas de plataforma y, si no me apuran, hasta el Lego. Es una virtud del sistema. <strong>El riesgo de esta d&#233;cada no es una tecnolog&#237;a malvada: es una virtud de dise&#241;o operando sin supervisi&#243;n de conjunto.</strong></p><p>En la Toma pasada el problema nunca fue la m&#225;quina de <em>pinball</em>. Era Juaco, el que administraba las reglas. Aqu&#237; tampoco es la IA o los Robots.</p><p><strong>Para que estemos 100% tranquilos, el Juaco de Skynet no es una IA, ni un robot. Es quien escribe el est&#225;ndar de interoperabilidad.</strong> Es un ingeniero, un bur&#243;crata o un pol&#237;tico con una hoja de especificaciones, en una oficina sin ventanas en el Pent&#225;gono, decidiendo qu&#233; y qui&#233;n se conecta con qu&#233;, como dir&#237;a nuestra famosa miss &#8220;&#8230;hombre con hombre&#8230; y en sentido contrario.&#8221;</p><p>Qu&#233; compuerta queda en el medio, no sale en ninguna pel&#237;cula, no da entrevistas y probablemente no sabe que est&#225; haciendo el trabajo m&#225;s importante del siglo.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!soHW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F61eff022-340b-4555-abf6-5e517fdff80c_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Pero resulta que cuando uno se pone a mirar en fr&#237;o el asunto, se da cuenta que <strong>la noticia buena no es sentimental.</strong></p><p>Ah&#237; va!</p><p><strong>Lo &#250;nico que Skynet necesitaba de verdad es justamente lo que hoy est&#225; mejor protegido.</strong> Toda la tragedia de la pel&#237;cula depende de un solo eslab&#243;n: que el sistema pudiera lanzar armas nucleares. Sin ese eslab&#243;n, Skynet es un software car&#237;simo con muy mal genio.</p><p>Bueno, pues sucede que <strong>el comando y control nuclear es, por dise&#241;o deliberado, el sistema menos interoperable que ha construido la humanidad.</strong> No es lento por atraso tecnol&#243;gico; es lento a prop&#243;sito, por dise&#241;o. Est&#225; aislado a prop&#243;sito, tiene procedimientos redundantes, confirmaci&#243;n humana en varios puntos, y partes que siguen siendo anal&#243;gicas porque alguien decidi&#243;, con buen juicio, que hay cosas que no deben poder hacerse r&#225;pido.</p><p>En un mundo obsesionado con conectar todo con todo, <strong>alguien tuvo la sabidur&#237;a de dejar un sistema deliberadamente desconectado.</strong> Eso no es un accidente ni una torpeza burocr&#225;tica, es la mejor decisi&#243;n de dise&#241;o desde la Guerra Fr&#237;a, y sigue en pie, intacto.</p><p>S&#250;menle que la doctrina occidental sobre autonom&#237;a en sistemas de armas exige de manera expl&#237;cita niveles apropiados de juicio humano en el uso de la fuerza. S&#250;menle algo m&#225;s raro todav&#237;a, el principio de que una decisi&#243;n nuclear requiere control humano ha sido reafirmada por las principales potencias, incluso por rivales que no se ponen de acuerdo en nada m&#225;s. <strong>Cuando dos pa&#237;ses que se detestan coinciden en algo, eso no es diplomacia, es que ambos le tienen miedo a la misma cosa.</strong></p><p>Hay una tercera buena noticia, que a m&#237; como futurista es la que m&#225;s me entusiasma: <strong>esta vez estamos discutiendo la doctrina </strong><em><strong>antes</strong></em><strong> del desastre.</strong></p><p>Pi&#233;nsenlo bien, la doctrina nuclear se escribi&#243; despu&#233;s de Hiroshima. Las reglas de la aviaci&#243;n se escribieron despu&#233;s de los accidentes. La seguridad automotriz lleg&#243; despu&#233;s de d&#233;cadas de muertos. <strong>Pr&#225;cticamente toda la &#233;tica tecnol&#243;gica de la historia humana ha sido p&#243;stuma.</strong> Esta es la primera vez que estamos peleando por las reglas mientras los sistemas todav&#237;a est&#225;n en la mesa de dise&#241;o, con los contratos abiertos y las especificaciones sin firmar.</p><p>Es la primera vez que llegamos temprano, por eso no la desperdiciemos.</p><p><strong>El umbral real no es la conciencia, es el tempo</strong></p><p>Si me tuviera que quedar con una sola idea de esta Toma, ser&#237;a esta.</p><p><strong>Todo el mundo est&#225; vigilando el umbral equivocado. Estamos esperando el momento en que la m&#225;quina </strong><em><strong>despierte</strong></em><strong>, porque eso es lo que vimos en la pantalla. Pero una m&#225;quina no necesita ser consciente para sacarnos del circuito. Solo necesita ser m&#225;s r&#225;pida que nuestra capacidad de revisarla.</strong></p><p>El d&#237;a peligroso no es aquel en que un sistema diga &#8220;yo existo&#8221;. <strong>Es aquel en que el ciclo de decisi&#243;n se comprima por debajo del tiempo que un humano necesita para entender lo que est&#225; aprobando.</strong> A partir de ese punto, el humano sigue ah&#237;, sigue firmando, sigue apareciendo en el organigrama, aunque no est&#233; decidiendo nada. A eso le llamamos supervisi&#243;n, pero en realidad es humanismo puro.</p><p>Aqu&#237; es donde esta Toma se conecta con la anterior. &#191;Se acuerdan del <em>TILT</em>? Aquel sensor de las maquinitas que apagaba el tablero cuando el jugador empujaba de m&#225;s. Yo dije que nos tocaba escribir ese TILT a nosotros, porque ya no viene instalado de f&#225;brica.</p><p>Pues bien, hoy le agrego la especificaci&#243;n t&#233;cnica que faltaba: <strong>el TILT necesita tiempo.</strong> Un l&#237;mite que no alcanza a activarse no es un l&#237;mite; es simplemente un adorno. De nada sirve el mejor freno de mano del mundo instalado en un carro que va m&#225;s r&#225;pido que la mano que lo acciona.</p><h3><strong>Las Se&#241;ales D&#233;biles que hay que Vigilar</strong></h3><p>FUTOPIX no ser&#237;a lo que es sin se&#241;ales d&#233;biles, aqu&#237; les dejo las se&#241;ales que yo estar&#237;a rastreando de aqu&#237; a 2045. Ninguna es un titular; <strong>todas son aburrid&#237;simas, y por eso es que funcionan.</strong></p><ol><li><p><strong>Mandatos de interoperabilidad que conecten la capa de planeaci&#243;n con la capa de efectos sin una compuerta humana en el medio.</strong> No busquemos la noticia sobre los robots. Busquemos el memorando t&#233;cnico sobre est&#225;ndares de conexi&#243;n.</p></li><li><p><strong>Que la supervisi&#243;n humana deje de discutirse como un asunto de &#233;tica y empiece a discutirse como un costo.</strong> El d&#237;a que el humano en el circuito aparezca en una hoja de c&#225;lculo como una demora en milisegundos, ya habremos perdido la discusi&#243;n sin habernos enterado.</p></li><li><p><strong>La compresi&#243;n del ciclo de decisi&#243;n por debajo del tiempo de reacci&#243;n humana.</strong> Este es el umbral verdadero, y es medible.</p></li><li><p><strong>El cambio de justificaci&#243;n.</strong> Hoy la autonom&#237;a se justifica diciendo &#8220;podemos&#8221;. El d&#237;a que se justifique diciendo &#8220;el adversario es m&#225;s r&#225;pido&#8221;, la conversaci&#243;n cambia de naturaleza, porque el miedo es el mejor vendedor que ha tenido la tecnolog&#237;a militar.</p></li><li><p><strong>Cualquier erosi&#243;n del aislamiento en el comando y control nuclear</strong>, por buenas que sean las razones de modernizaci&#243;n. Ese aire entre los sistemas es infraestructura de supervivencia, no atraso.</p></li></ol><p>Si ven que alguna de estas cinco se mueve, av&#237;senme. Ese d&#237;a escribiremos una Toma extraordinaria.</p><h4><strong>Semipalatinsk</strong></h4><p>Ahora s&#237;, les cobro la fecha que les ped&#237; guardar, porque aqu&#237; es donde est&#225; la tuerca rodada. Les cont&#233; que el 29 de agosto es el D&#237;a Internacional contra los Ensayos Nucleares. Lo que no les hab&#237;a contado es <strong>por qu&#233;</strong> se escogi&#243; esa fecha.</p><p>Se escogi&#243; porque el 29 de agosto de 1991 <strong>Kazajist&#225;n cerr&#243; el pol&#237;gono de Semipalatinsk</strong>, uno de los sitios de pruebas nucleares m&#225;s grandes y m&#225;s brutales del planeta, donde se detonaron cientos de artefactos durante cuarenta a&#241;os, encima de gente que viv&#237;a ah&#237;. Un pa&#237;s reci&#233;n nacido, sin plata, sin poder y sin nada que ganar, decidi&#243; cerrar la m&#225;quina del fin del mundo que ten&#237;an en el patio de la casa. Las Naciones Unidas tomaron esa fecha y la convirtieron en conmemoraci&#243;n mundial.</p><p>Ahora hagan la cuenta conmigo, despacio, porque esta es una de las cosas m&#225;s bonitas que me he encontrado escribiendo esta publicaci&#243;n:</p><p><strong>Terminator 2 se estren&#243; en julio de 1991. Semipalatinsk cerr&#243; el 29 de agosto de 1991. A tan solo siete semanas de diferencia.</strong></p><p>El mismo a&#241;o, casi el mismo mes, la humanidad hizo dos cosas al tiempo. <strong>Con una mano imagin&#243; una m&#225;quina que nos destruir&#237;a porque no supimos apagarla. Con la otra, apag&#243; una de verdad. </strong>De esas dos cosas, la que se volvi&#243; mito global, la que todos citamos, la que tiene camisetas y memes y secuelas, es la ficci&#243;n. La que de verdad pas&#243;, no la conoce casi nadie.</p><p><strong>Entonces el 29 de agosto no es el cumplea&#241;os de Skynet. El 29 de agosto es el aniversario del d&#237;a en que unos humanos, en el peor momento posible, decidieron desconectar la maquinar&#237;a del fin del mundo.</strong></p><p>Esa fecha ya tiene dos historias, s&#237; se&#241;ores. Una nos la cont&#243; Hollywood y la otra se las estoy contando yo,<strong> la m&#237;a tiene mejor final.</strong></p><h5><strong>Tarea para la semana</strong></h5><p>Como siempre, va para todos. <strong>Si usted construye cualquier cosa</strong>, un sistema, un proceso, un flujo de trabajo, un negocio o un equipo, busque en su dise&#241;o la decisi&#243;n m&#225;s irreversible que ese sistema puede tomar. La que no tiene &#8220;control Z&#8221;.  Preg&#250;ntese una sola cosa: <strong>&#191;cu&#225;ntos segundos tiene un ser humano para decir que no?</strong> Si la respuesta es &#8220;ninguno&#8221;, usted ya construy&#243; un pedacito de Skynet, y no importa si su empresa vende drones o arepas, la formula es la misma.</p><p><strong>Si usted no construye nada</strong>, la tarea es m&#225;s corta: identifique una decisi&#243;n que usted todav&#237;a cree que est&#225; tomando, pero que en realidad ya solo est&#225; aprobando. La ruta que le sugiri&#243; el GPS, el candidato que le subi&#243; el filtro, el precio que le puso el algoritmo, la noticia que le mostr&#243; el <em>feed</em>. <strong>No se trata de dejar de usarlos</strong>, sino de saber la diferencia entre decidir y firmar. Son dos verbos muy distintos, pero que gracias a la IA,  se est&#225;n volviendo el mismo.</p><p>Finalmente, hag&#225;monos entre todos la pregunta que hoy toca hacernos:</p><p><strong>&#191;Qu&#233; es lo &#250;ltimo que yo no delegar&#237;a, pase lo que pase, aunque la m&#225;quina lo hiciera mejor que yo?</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!viZP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef81bf16-ac6f-493c-a329-7b573677d6fa_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!viZP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fef81bf16-ac6f-493c-a329-7b573677d6fa_1672x941.png 424w, 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Van veintinueve veces seguidas que este 29 de agosto llega, pasa y no nos destruye nadie, en alg&#250;n momento vamos a tener que aceptar que eso no es suerte.</p><p>Es que <strong>el futuro no est&#225; predeterminado</strong>, esa frase, que en la pel&#237;cula sonaba a consuelo para una madre desesperada, resulta ser la descripci&#243;n t&#233;cnica m&#225;s exacta de la situaci&#243;n en la que estamos. Skynet no lleg&#243; porque no estaba escrito que llegar&#225;. Nada est&#225; escrito, ese es el problema y esa es, sobre todo, la oportunidad.</p><p>Nos toc&#243; vivir el &#250;nico momento de la historia en que la humanidad ve venir un riesgo grande <strong>antes</strong> de que nos pase encima, con las especificaciones todav&#237;a en borrador y los contratos todav&#237;a sin firmar. Nuestros abuelos no tuvieron eso, nosotros s&#237;.</p><h4><strong>El futuro no se predice, se dise&#241;a&#8230;</strong></h4><p>PD&#8230; Todos esos juguetes militares y algunos otros que no cab&#237;an aqu&#237; est&#225;n en manos del departamento de Guerra de EEUU. Si las cosas siguen por el camino por donde est&#225;n avanzando, en poco tiempo podr&#237;an estar al alcance de las Fuerzas Militares de Colombia, si nos los prestan entenderemos que la guerra hoy no se hace con soldados como en el pasado, hoy las armas se nutren de data!</p><p>Nos leemos en la pr&#243;xima Toma. Si esta toma te movi&#243; el piso, comp&#225;rtela con ese amigo que todav&#237;a cree que el peligro son los robots.</p><p>FUTOPIX | Futurismo para gente despierta. Si llegaste hasta aqu&#237; y todav&#237;a no te has suscrito, hazlo: es gratis, es un clic, y hoy es un d&#237;a perfecto para tomar una decisi&#243;n peque&#241;a que s&#237; depende enteramente de ti.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png 424w, 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La gran mayor&#237;a de los terr&#237;colas no ten&#237;amos ni put&#8230; idea (<em>NPI</em>) de lo que ser&#237;a el mundo digital. <strong>Viv&#237;amos en el mundo an&#225;logo de los tubos cat&#243;dicos, los diodos y los transistores, &#233;ramos felices y no lo sab&#237;amos.</strong></p><p>Los primeros videojuegos de nuestra &#233;poca eran las m&#225;quinas de <em>&#8220;Pinball&#8221;</em>. La primera vez que las vi, alucin&#233; con sus sonidos, qued&#233; capturado por la bola de acero haciendo recorridos a veces inesperados a trav&#233;s del tablero iluminado. A&#250;n recuerdo un lugar en la carrera 70 de Medell&#237;n, al frente de lo que alg&#250;n d&#237;a fueron los almacenes LEY. En ese local comercial se hallaba localizado el palacio de los sonidos electr&#243;nicos, tin, tin, tin, bloom, &#161;tra, tra, ta!, los tonos emitidos por dichas m&#225;quinas cuando la bola circulaba. Pas&#233; demasiadas tardes en ese lugar, a veces jugando, pero la mayor&#237;a de las veces mirando, porque no ten&#237;a con qu&#233; pagar las moneditas con las que operaban las m&#225;quinas, a las que llam&#225;bamos <em>tokens</em>, o <em>cr&#233;ditos</em>.</p><p>En el lugar trabajaba un rufi&#225;n pelirrojo con coraz&#243;n de ni&#241;o al que le faltaba parte de su dentadura, lo que le hac&#237;a ver m&#225;s rudo. Era como un <em>Bulldog</em> mueco con cara malosa, y el primer man que vi en mi vida con un tatuaje. Era conocido popularmente como &#8220;Juaco&#8221;. Seguramente se llamaba Joaqu&#237;n, pero no tengo certeza de ello; en el mundo de los apodos en Medell&#237;n cualquier cosa era posible.</p><p>Al parecer, Juaco era el t&#233;cnico de las m&#225;quinas, al mismo tiempo el vigilante y el administrador de las reglas en ese lugar. <strong>Juaco no administraba m&#225;quinas, era el agente de ICE en el sitio</strong>: &#233;l decid&#237;a qui&#233;n entraba o sal&#237;a, cu&#225;nto tiempo duraba tu estadia, qui&#233;n hab&#237;a hecho trampa, a qui&#233;n se le regalaba una partida cuando la m&#225;quina se tragaba la moneda y a qui&#233;n no. <strong>Ese mueco fue el primer dise&#241;ador de sistemas que conoc&#237; en mi vida.</strong> As&#237;, mientras la tecnolog&#237;a estaba conectada a la energ&#237;a en la pared, <strong>las reglas del sitio estaban enchufadas a Juaco</strong>.</p><p>A las maquinitas de la setenta llegaba todo tipo de gente: los de estrato 6, odio esa clasificaci&#243;n de castas que tenemos en Colombia, y los gamines arrancados como yo, los maleantes y los &#241;o&#241;os de la UPB (Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana). Hice amigos de todos los colores en ese lugar, a&#250;n recuerdo a <em>Fite, Speed, el &#209;ato </em>y o los vendedores ambulantes de cigarrillos y golosinas <em>(entre ellos a Boca de Yoyo).</em></p><p>Desde su apertura <em>Las Maquinitas</em> (as&#237; se llamaba ese chuzo) se convirti&#243; en el centro de gravedad de mi barrio. Aqu&#237; nos junt&#225;bamos todos, ni&#241;as y ni&#241;os, aunque las ni&#241;as que llegaban a las maquinitas eran las rebeldes &#161;te acord&#225;s, Angie!, a las que les gustaba m&#225;s jugar <em>pinball</em> que andar cepillando <em>Barbies</em>.</p><p>En las maquinitas conoc&#237; a mi querido amigo y parcero de siempre <strong>Alejandro V&#233;lez,</strong> un genio de la ingenier&#237;a electr&#243;nica, que en paz descanse. A Alejo lo recordar&#233; siempre porque era mi compa&#241;ero para escuchar m&#250;sica de peludos (m&#250;sica de marihuaneros, como dec&#237;a mi mam&#225;). All&#237; nos junt&#225;bamos con otros rockeros del barrio e intercambi&#225;bamos <em>cassettes</em>, y eventualmente uno que otro vinilo. Al lugar tambi&#233;n llegaba un conocido actor de la escena del rock paisa al que apodaban <em>&#8220;Bull Metal&#8221; </em>(ese man si que ten&#237;a buena banda sonora); nunca fui amigo del hombre, aunque nos levant&#225;bamos la ceja cuando nos ve&#237;amos jugando pinball, en forma de saludo.</p><p>Yo conoc&#237;a a toda la fauna que gravitaba esa cuadra del barrio, desde los j&#237;baros hasta las muchachas lindas, todo ello debido a que mi mam&#225; me mandaba con bastante frecuencia a comprarle hilos o botones en una miscel&#225;nea que quedaba en la esquina de dicha manzana, y que si mal no recuerdo se llamaba <em>&#8220;Mil Variedades&#8221; o &#8220;Mil Novedades&#8221;,</em> o algo as&#237;. La &#250;nica condici&#243;n que le pon&#237;a a mi madrecita hermosa para hacerle el mandado era que yo le compraba sus hilos, sus adornos y dem&#225;s vainas <strong>s&#237; y solo s&#237;,</strong> me quedaba con los vueltos para jugarme un par de &#8220;partidos&#8221; en alguno de los <em>pinballs</em>. Porque en el lugar hab&#237;a varias m&#225;quinas, casi todas tem&#225;ticas, con luces de ne&#243;n, bombillitos multicolores y esos sonidos electr&#243;nicos que hipnotizaban a la clientela.</p><p>Eso s&#237;, cada m&#225;quina ten&#237;a sus expertos y audiencia. Hab&#237;a quienes solo jugaban con la de <em>James Bond 007</em>, con la <em>Cyclone</em>, con la <em>Firepower</em>, y mi preferida: la <em>Check Mate</em>, de <em>Taito</em>, uno de los amores de mi vida (No tengo donde meterme una, pero sin duda esta en mi bucket list).</p><p>Luego vino el <em>Atari</em> y las maquinitas de mesa, como <em>Pac-Man</em>, otra de mis amores, <em>Galaga</em> y, por supuesto, <em>Space Invaders</em>. <strong>Esta &#250;ltima se convirti&#243; en un juego de culto hasta el d&#237;a de hoy; deber&#237;amos declararla patrimonio cultural de la humanidad.</strong></p><p>Ahora bien, lo que nunca vimos venir fue que con la llegada de los procesadores, y por supuesto de las consolas de videojuegos, <strong>como humanidad est&#225;bamos cruzando un umbral del que nunca vamos a retornar.</strong></p><p>El concepto <em>&#8220;realidad&#8221; </em>hasta ese momento ten&#237;a car&#225;cter anal&#243;gico, y la descubr&#237;amos a partir de lo que ve&#237;amos en la TV o lo que nos mostraban las publicaciones de la &#233;poca, en forma de lenguaje escrito. Pero a partir de la llegada del computador entrar&#237;amos al mundo digital, y <strong>lo que entend&#237;amos como realidad comenz&#243; a quedar consignado en </strong><em><strong>&#8220;Streams de Data&#8221;</strong></em><strong>.</strong></p><p>Como sociedad nos tomar&#237;a varias d&#233;cadas para digerir y entender el l&#237;o en el que nos est&#225;bamos metiendo. Hoy, cuando veo la vida en retro, me doy cuenta de lo mucho que hemos ganado, pero al mismo tiempo de todo lo que hemos perdido. S&#233; que suena como a reflexi&#243;n de viejito; tambi&#233;n le escuch&#233; decir lo mismo a mi abuelo y a mi pap&#225;: <em>&#8220;Todo tiempo pasado fue mejor&#8221;.</em></p><p>No obstante, en esta Toma no vamos a meternos en la melancol&#237;a de los recuerdos del pasado. Si eso hici&#233;ramos, tendr&#237;amos que llamar esta publicaci&#243;n <em><strong>NOSTALGIX o RETROPIX</strong></em>, y creo que estamos lejos de ello. Pero no olvidemos que para dise&#241;ar el futuro tenemos que conocer el pasado, porque <strong>el futuro no es una l&#237;nea de tiempo, es un abanico de se&#241;ales y posibilidades</strong> (ya estoy mam&#243;n con la misma cantaleta, pero es para que les vaya calando el tema).</p><p>Eso si, hay una raz&#243;n muy concreta para arrancar esta historia hablando de &#8220;las maquinitas&#8221;, no es simplemente nostalgia <em>vintage</em>. En ese sal&#243;n de la setenta estaba, sin que ninguno de nosotros lo supiera, <strong>el modelo completo de la discusi&#243;n que vamos a tener hoy: una m&#225;quina, un cuerpo humano pegado a ella, un sistema de cr&#233;ditos que decide cu&#225;nto vale tu tiempo, y un se&#241;or administrando las reglas.</strong></p><p><strong>Cambien la m&#225;quina de </strong><em><strong>pinball</strong></em><strong> por un implante cerebral y cambien a Juaco por un algoritmo</strong>, y &#161;ta daaaa!, estamos en 2026.</p><p>Aj&#250;stense los cinturones, que esto se dej&#243; venir.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!qM1f!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3fcc5e93-4ad2-49bf-98fc-9077975bb8e2_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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Todo <em>pinball</em> tiene un sensor de movimiento e inclinaci&#243;n. Si uno empuja la m&#225;quina para ayudarle en el recorrido a la bolita, y todos la empuj&#225;bamos, no se me hagan los santos, hay un punto exacto en el que el tablero se apaga, los <em>flippers</em> se mueren y aparece <strong>la palabra m&#225;s humillante de mi infancia: &#161;TILT!</strong> Y, como un <em>rottweiler</em>, adivinen qui&#233;n aparec&#237;a para sacarte la roja&#8230; S&#237;, se&#241;ores: TILT era se&#241;al de expulsi&#243;n&#8230;</p><p>La m&#225;quina no se da&#241;aba, pero Juaco dec&#237;a que la m&#225;quina hab&#237;a que protegerla. Por eso, cuando la m&#225;quina se tildaba, esta reconoc&#237;a que <strong>el jugador ya no estaba jugando dentro del sistema, sino contra el sistema</strong>, y por eso decid&#237;a desconectarse antes de que la forzasen a mentir sobre su propio resultado.</p><p>Ese sensor, pens&#225;ndolo bien, fue <strong>la primera lecci&#243;n de &#233;tica embebida que muchos conocimos: una tecnolog&#237;a que sab&#237;a hasta d&#243;nde est&#225;bamos dispuestos a llegar con tal de ganar, y que pon&#237;a el l&#237;mite ella misma porque sab&#237;a que nosotros no lo &#237;bamos a poner.</strong></p><p>Aguantemos el TILT por aqu&#237;, aunque volveremos al concepto al final, para cerrar la Toma.</p><h4><strong>El Giro | Hablemos de Dise&#241;o</strong></h4><p>Aqu&#237; es cuando toca dar el timonazo para cambiar de rumbo. Esta entrega no es precisamente para hablar de <em>pinballs</em>, ni de juegos electr&#243;nicos que reportan invasiones extraterrestres. <strong>El objetivo central de esta entrega es hablar de dise&#241;o</strong>, met&#225;monos de lleno en el tema.</p><p>La <em>Bauhaus</em>, fundada por Walter Gropius en la antigua Rep&#250;blica de Weimar en 1919 y clausurada por los nazis en 1933, forj&#243; catorce a&#241;os de vida que reorganizaron el gusto del planeta entero. El dise&#241;o como disciplina ha mutado en m&#250;ltiples transformaciones que lo han llevado a explorar, interpretar y reproducir los movimientos sociales presentes en la filosof&#237;a y por supuesto en el arte. F&#237;jense en el lema con el que Gropius resumi&#243; el asunto en 1923: <strong>&#8220;arte y tecnolog&#237;a, una nueva unidad&#8221;.</strong> Cien a&#241;os despu&#233;s seguimos discutiendo exactamente lo mismo, solo que ahora la tecnolog&#237;a lleg&#243; a la mesa con otros atributos.</p><p>Si damos un salto de ochenta a&#241;os hasta lo que se conoce hoy como la modernidad, encontramos que las escuelas de dise&#241;o por todo el planeta pasaron de centrar sus principios fundamentales en el artefacto, el concepto y la expresi&#243;n, al desarrollo del <strong>Dise&#241;o Centrado en el Humano (</strong><em><strong>HCD</strong></em><strong>)</strong>. Lo cual no es otra cosa distinta a que, despu&#233;s de que viaj&#225;ramos en la mayonesa durante d&#233;cadas, finalmente nos dimos cuenta de que <strong>lo realmente importante para el dise&#241;o es hallar inspiraci&#243;n en las necesidades humanas.</strong></p><p>La genealog&#237;a es m&#225;s corta y m&#225;s reciente de lo que la gente cree, y vale la pena tenerla clara para no comprar humo. En 1986, Donald Norman puso en circulaci&#243;n la idea de <em>user-centered design</em>, y dos a&#241;os despu&#233;s public&#243; el libro que se volvi&#243; la Biblia de todos los dise&#241;adores. En 1991, el estudio de David Kelley se fusion&#243; con otros tres para dar origen a <em>IDEO</em>, tal vez la m&#225;s famosa escuela de dise&#241;o de los Estados Unidos; en 2004 ese mismo Kelley fund&#243;, en las entra&#241;as de Stanford, el <em>Hasso Plattner Institute of Design</em>, que el mundo conoce como la <em>d.school</em>. En junio de 2008, Tim Brown public&#243; en <em>Harvard Business Review</em> el art&#237;culo que convirti&#243; el <em>design thinking</em> en religi&#243;n corporativa global. (Detalle de cr&#233;dito, porque me gusta darlos completos: David y Tom Kelley s&#237; son hermanos, pero el que fund&#243; IDEO y la <em>d.school</em> fue David; Tom fue el gerente general y el evangelizador que escribi&#243; los libros que todos los dise&#241;adores nos hemos le&#237;do.)</p><p>Para esta escuela de pensamiento, los principios fundamentales del dise&#241;o surgen del perfecto entendimiento de las necesidades de los consumidores, unido al pensamiento en primeros principios. De estas filosof&#237;as se derivan metodolog&#237;as como el <em>Design Thinking</em>, el <em>HCD</em> (<em>Human-Centric Design</em>), el <em>Service Design</em>, el mapeo de experiencias (<em>Customer Journey Mapping</em>), el dise&#241;o de sistemas y experiencias a partir de mapas de interacci&#243;n, y la visualizaci&#243;n del dise&#241;o de servicios mediante <em>Blueprints</em> de estado actual y futuro. Digamos entonces que, palabras m&#225;s palabras menos, <strong>las bases del </strong><em><strong>HCD</strong></em><strong> est&#225;n imbricadas en las metodolog&#237;as anteriormente citadas.</strong></p><p><strong>Hasta aqu&#237;, todo lindo.</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cZjW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F813f3c65-a5ad-48e2-a772-d822b6ff32c3_1024x1536.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cZjW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F813f3c65-a5ad-48e2-a772-d822b6ff32c3_1024x1536.png 424w, 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concentraci&#243;n, la consciencia digital embarcada en ordenadores digitales, sin hablar de lo que viene con la <em>AGI</em> (<em>Artificial General Intelligence</em>). Mejor dicho: que Chucho nos coja confesados.</p><p>Como es costumbre en esta casa, las tesis se defienden con datos o no se abordan. D&#233;jenme ponerle n&#250;meros a la crisis, porque <strong>esto ya dej&#243; de ser ciencia ficci&#243;n</strong>:</p><p><strong>Los cerebros ya est&#225;n conectados.</strong> A febrero de 2026, Neuralink reportaba alrededor de veinti&#250;n pacientes implantados. Synchron, que mete su dispositivo por una vena, sin abrir el cr&#225;neo, levant&#243; doscientos millones de d&#243;lares en noviembre de 2025 con diez pacientes ya implantados. En abril de 2025 la FDA autoriz&#243; el primer <em>BCI</em> inal&#225;mbrico, el de Precision Neuroscience. El mercado global de neurotecnolog&#237;a ronda los diecinueve mil millones de d&#243;lares este a&#241;o. Como pueden ver, <strong>esto ya no son solo pruebas de laboratorio: son industrias con talonario de facturaci&#243;n.</strong></p><p><strong>Los &#243;rganos ya cruzaron de especie.</strong> El 25 de enero de 2025, Tim Andrews recibi&#243; un ri&#241;&#243;n de cerdo gen&#233;ticamente editado, diez modificaciones: seis genes humanos a&#241;adidos, cuatro porcinos apagados. Pas&#243; m&#225;s de siete meses sin un minuto de di&#225;lisis. Le&#225;moslo despacio: all&#225; afuera hay seres humanos caminando por ah&#237; con un &#243;rgano dise&#241;ado por ingenieros dentro del cuerpo. <strong>El dise&#241;o ya no es una cosa que uno usa, es una cosa que uno tiene adentro.</strong></p><p><strong>El genoma ya se escribe a la medida.</strong> En 2025, un beb&#233; llamado KJ Muldoon recibi&#243; una terapia de edici&#243;n de bases dise&#241;ada y fabricada exclusivamente para &#233;l, en seis meses. <strong>Un medicamento con un solo cliente en el mundo.</strong> Del otro lado del mostrador, ya hay empresas que cobran hasta cincuenta mil d&#243;lares por decirle a unos padres cu&#225;l de sus embriones tiene mejor pron&#243;stico gen&#233;tico, aunque las sociedades m&#233;dicas serias vienen advirtiendo que esa ciencia todav&#237;a no da para prometer lo que se est&#225; prometiendo.</p><p><strong>La AGI tiene fecha de lanzamiento, seg&#250;n a qui&#233;n le pregunten.</strong> Hassabis dijo en marzo de 2025 que la IA a nivel humano llegar&#237;a en cinco a diez a&#241;os. Amodei escribi&#243; en enero de 2026 que, si la exponencial se mantiene, no pueden pasar m&#225;s que unos pocos a&#241;os antes de que la IA sea mejor que los humanos en esencialmente todo. Altman habla de &#8220;unos pocos miles de d&#237;as&#8221;. Kurzweil sigue firmando 2029 y 2045, sin moverse un mil&#237;metro de su predicci&#243;n, lo que lo hace muy interesante porque este sujeto cuenta con un <em>track record</em> de precisi&#243;n superior al 80%.</p><p>Ninguno de ellos se compromete con una fecha, pero todos dicen &#8220;pronto&#8221;. Para los futuristas, <strong>cuando cuatro relojes desincronizados marcan la misma franja horaria, eso deja de ser ruido y se convierte en se&#241;al.</strong></p><p>Yo no soy uno de aquellos que tienen una visi&#243;n apocal&#237;ptica de la AGI. No me he matriculado en la escuela de Yuval Noah Harari. Como antrop&#243;logo, creo fervorosamente que <strong>ser&#225; la cultura la que nos mantenga vigentes</strong>, pues por m&#225;s inteligente que una m&#225;quina pueda ser, nunca podr&#225; emular la cultura; esta es precisamente el filtro que nos ha mantenido relevantes durante milenios.</p><p>Voy a hacer algo que casi nadie hace: corregirme a m&#237; mismo en p&#250;blico. Yo llevo a&#241;os repitiendo que &#8220;la cultura se desayuna a la estrategia&#8221;, y se lo he atribuido a Drucker como todo el mundo. Pues resulta que el Instituto Drucker lleva rato aclarando que el viejo nunca dijo esa frase. Lo que Drucker s&#237; escribi&#243;, y esto me gusta much&#237;simo m&#225;s, es que <strong>la cultura, se defina como se defina, es singularmente persistente.</strong></p><p>&#191;Singularmente persistente? Esa es la frase que sostiene toda mi disertaci&#243;n. La cultura no ganar&#225; porque sea m&#225;s fuerte, ni m&#225;s inteligente. <strong>Ganar&#225; porque no se rinde y porque no tiene ni cinco de af&#225;n. Es el &#250;nico software que se instala solo, se actualiza solo y sobrevive a la muerte de todos sus usuarios.</strong></p><p><strong>BHCD | El Dise&#241;o m&#225;s all&#225; de lo Humano</strong></p><p>Como antrop&#243;logo y dise&#241;ador, estoy viendo c&#243;mo actualmente transitamos en una <strong>liminalidad</strong> que nos lleva hacia una transici&#243;n del dise&#241;o inspirado en lo humano hacia el dise&#241;o inspirado en la tecnolog&#237;a. A este movimiento lo he llamado el <strong>&#8220;Dise&#241;o m&#225;s all&#225; del Humano&#8221; (</strong><em><strong>Beyond Human Centric Design</strong></em><strong> &#8211; BHCD)</strong>, y el remoquete no se lo busquen a otro autor porque es producci&#243;n de la casa.</p><p>D&#233;jenme desempacar la palabra liminalidad, porque como de costumbre no la estoy usando de adorno. Arnold van Gennep public&#243; en 1909 <em>Los ritos de paso</em>, y describi&#243; que todo rito de tr&#225;nsito tiene tres momentos: la separaci&#243;n, el umbral y la reincorporaci&#243;n. Sesenta a&#241;os despu&#233;s, Victor Turner tom&#243; ese umbral, el <em>limen</em>, la puerta, y lo convirti&#243; en un concepto propio. <strong>El liminal es el que ya sali&#243; de lo que era y todav&#237;a no llega a lo que va a ser.</strong> No es ni&#241;o ni adulto. No es soltero ni casado. No es nada, y por eso es peligroso: en todas las culturas del planeta, el sujeto liminal se considera contaminante, ambiguo, inc&#243;modo. Por eso los ritos de paso siempre son inc&#243;modos, siempre duelen un poquito y siempre los administra alguien con autoridad (el pol&#237;tico, el empresario, el cham&#225;n o el cl&#233;rigo).</p><p>Bueno, se&#241;ores: el real problema es que <strong>la humanidad entera est&#225; en el umbral, y no hay nadie administrando el rito.</strong></p><p>No hay un Juaco, no hay un maestro de ceremonias, no hay un anciano de la tribu que diga &#8220;listo, ya pasaste, ahora eres esto otro&#8221;. <strong>Estamos atravesando el rito de paso m&#225;s grande de la historia de la especie sin ritual, sin liturgia y sin adulto responsable en el sal&#243;n.</strong></p><p>Lo estamos haciendo, adem&#225;s, con las herramientas equivocadas. Porque el BHCD no es una moda que se me ocurri&#243; a m&#237;; es una conversaci&#243;n que la academia del dise&#241;o lleva casi una d&#233;cada incubando: Laura Forlano sobre posthumanismo y dise&#241;o en 2017, Giaccardi y Redstr&#246;m con <em>Technology and More-Than-Human Design</em> en 2020, y Ron Wakkary en MIT Press en 2021, con un subt&#237;tulo que lo dice todo: &#8220;para mundos m&#225;s-que-centrados-en-lo-humano&#8221;.</p><p>Lo que sigue me llena de orgullo criollo: el colombiano Arturo Escobar public&#243; en 2018 <em>Designs for the Pluriverse</em>, donde propone que el problema del dise&#241;o moderno no es que sea poco humano, <strong>sino que asumi&#243; que solo hay una manera de ser humano.</strong> Es decir, mientras nosotros discut&#237;amos si el <em>journey map</em> iba en horizontal o en vertical, la conversaci&#243;n seria ya se movi&#243; de escenario.</p><p>El BHCD es el nuevo reto al que nos enfrentamos hoy los dise&#241;adores de todo tipo, desde aquellos que se ocupan de la identidad gr&#225;fica hasta quienes dise&#241;an cohetes, pasando por quienes trabajamos en el dise&#241;o de negocios y servicios.</p><p>Su pregunta central es brutalmente simple: <strong>si el usuario deja de ser exclusivamente humano, &#191;para qui&#233;n estamos dise&#241;ando?</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bf_6!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37df5472-a187-488c-8cb1-2ee9c495302f_1024x1535.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bf_6!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37df5472-a187-488c-8cb1-2ee9c495302f_1024x1535.png 424w, 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Es decir: que <strong>en el futuro podr&#237;amos medirnos por el porcentaje de humano que representamos</strong>, porque habr&#225; entidades que poseer&#225;n m&#225;s o menos rasgos de humanidad. Es algo aqu&#237; como cuando hoy decimos que un perro tiene 50% de labrador y 50% de otra raza. A eso es a lo que llamaremos los transhumanos.</p><p>Dato de contexto, para que vean que ni la palabra es nueva: el t&#233;rmino <em>transhumanism</em> lo puso a circular Julian Huxley en 1957. S&#237;, el hermano del que escribi&#243; <em>Un mundo feliz</em>. En 1993, Max More acu&#241;&#243; la idea de &#8220;libertad morfol&#243;gica&#8221;: el derecho de cada quien a modificar su propia forma corporal. En 1998 se firm&#243; la Declaraci&#243;n Transhumanista. Llevamos setenta a&#241;os con esto encima; <strong>la idea no ha cambiado, lo que pasa es que con las tecnolog&#237;as emergentes se volvi&#243; comprable.</strong></p><p>Los retos que enfrentaremos como humanidad, si es que a&#250;n podremos llamarnos as&#237;, ser&#225;n enormes. Pensemos, por ejemplo, en el mundo de los derechos. Imaginemos una m&#225;quina que posee conciencia humana y que, en consecuencia, por compartir ciertos rasgos distintivos con los humanos, podr&#237;an otorg&#225;rsele ciertos derechos (los progres se pondr&#225;n felices). Llevemos la discusi&#243;n al campo de los robots: al paso que vamos, en el futuro cercano los robots compartir&#225;n cierto nivel de humanidad. La ciencia ficci&#243;n ya nos hizo la tarea. &#191;En qu&#233; categor&#237;a pondr&#237;amos a <em>RoboCop</em> (1987, Verhoeven), que es un veh&#237;culo mec&#225;nico compartiendo una conciencia humana? O sin ir m&#225;s lejos, pensemos en <em>el Hombre Nuclear</em> (Steve Austin, 1974 a 1978), la serie con la que muchos crecimos, que no era otra cosa diferente a un cyborg: piernas rob&#243;ticas, una mano rob&#243;tica, visi&#243;n telesc&#243;pica y un o&#237;do superior al de cualquier humano. Alto porcentaje m&#225;quina, y un poco de cerebro y conciencia humanas.</p><p>C&#243;mo vamos a manejar estas superioridades en el futuro es un debate que tenemos que comenzar a dar. Para colmo de males, les tengo la noticia de que <strong>el debate ya se dio, ya se perdi&#243; una vez, y casi nadie se enter&#243;.</strong></p><p>En 2017, el Parlamento Europeo propuso estudiar una figura llamada &#8220;personalidad electr&#243;nica&#8221; para robots aut&#243;nomos. Se arm&#243; tal alboroto acad&#233;mico que en 2020 el mismo Parlamento retrocedi&#243;: la responsabilidad se le carga al operador humano y punto. Ese mismo 2017, Arabia Saudita le otorg&#243; ciudadan&#237;a a la robot Sophia, un truco publicitario que nadie replic&#243; jam&#225;s y que dej&#243; a media humanidad pregunt&#225;ndose si una m&#225;quina de relaciones p&#250;blicas ten&#237;a m&#225;s derechos que una trabajadora migrante en ese mismo pa&#237;s. Ojo con la fecha de hoy: las obligaciones de la Ley de IA europea para sistemas de alto riesgo empezaron a aplicar este mes, el 2 de agosto de 2026. Mientras usted lee esto, el primer marco legal serio del planeta para entidades no humanas ya est&#225; operando.</p><p>Aqu&#237; va la que m&#225;s me gusta, porque es nuestra y casi nadie la usa en estos debates: <strong>Colombia ya le reconoci&#243; personer&#237;a jur&#237;dica a una entidad no humana.</strong> En 2016, la Corte Constitucional declar&#243; al r&#237;o Atrato sujeto de derechos, con derecho a protecci&#243;n, conservaci&#243;n y restauraci&#243;n. Nueva Zelanda hizo lo propio con el r&#237;o Whanganui en 2017.</p><p>L&#233;anlo otra vez: <strong>el debate sobre si una entidad no humana puede tener derechos ya se resolvi&#243; afirmativamente en Colombia, hace diez a&#241;os, y lo gan&#243; un r&#237;o.</strong></p><p>Nosotros cre&#237;amos que esa discusi&#243;n iba a llegar por el lado de los robots, con luces y con Netflix. Lleg&#243; por el lado del agua, en el Choc&#243;, en una sentencia que casi nadie ley&#243;. <strong>As&#237; llega siempre el futuro: por la puerta de la cocina y sin avisar.</strong></p><h3><strong>El Cuerpo, el Sistema y el Alma</strong></h3><p>Yo creo que uno de los problemas que hoy tenemos es que <strong>tendemos a entendernos a partir de las partes y no como sistema.</strong> Aqu&#237; es donde me voy a fumar el porro, para explicar mi argumento.</p><p>Los humanos permanentemente solemos pensarnos a partir del cuerpo sutil, como dir&#237;a &#193;lvaro Uribe, a partir de nuestros &#8220;huesitos y carnitas&#8221;, y aunque para muchos el debate de los cuerpos no sutiles sea un asunto de orden esot&#233;rico, tal vez ha llegado la hora de comenzar a pensarlo en serio. S&#233; que muchos de mis amigos se escandalizar&#237;an con esta propuesta, sobre todo aquellos positivistas que miran la vida a trav&#233;s del cristal de sus chequeras y portafolios.</p><p>No se trata de abrazar una postura religiosa, &#161;ni m&#225;s faltaba! Se trata de un problema de dise&#241;o, y voy a defenderlo con antropolog&#237;a pura y dura.</p><p>En 1934, Marcel Mauss escribi&#243; un texto cortico y demoledor llamado <em>Las t&#233;cnicas del cuerpo</em>, donde demostr&#243; que la manera de caminar, de nadar, de dormir, de parir y hasta de escupir es cultural, no natural. El cuerpo humano no es un objeto biol&#243;gico al que la cultura le pone ropa encima: <strong>el cuerpo humano es y ser&#225; un producto cultural.</strong> Cincuenta a&#241;os despu&#233;s, Donna Haraway remat&#243; en su <em>Manifiesto Cyborg</em> de 1985 con la frase que todav&#237;a incomoda a muchos: &#8220;prefiero ser cyborg que diosa&#8221;. En 2003, Andy Clark public&#243; <em>Natural-Born Cyborgs</em>: somos cyborgs de nacimiento, porque llevamos cien mil a&#241;os delegando funciones cognitivas en objetos externos, el nudo en el pa&#241;uelo, el &#225;baco, la libreta, el celular, (amo la antropolog&#237;a).</p><p>&#191;Entienden el punto? <strong>El transhumanismo no es el momento en que empezamos a mezclarnos con la tecnolog&#237;a. Es el momento en que la mezcla se vuelve visible y, por lo tanto, cobrable.</strong></p><p>El error de dise&#241;o es el mismo de siempre: estamos midiendo la humanidad por inventario de partes, cu&#225;ntos huesos originales le quedan, cu&#225;nto silicio le metieron, cuando <strong>la humanidad nunca estuvo en las partes, estuvo en la relaci&#243;n entre ellas</strong>: en el v&#237;nculo, en la conversaci&#243;n, en la comida compartida, en el chisme, en el duelo, &#191;sigo?&#8230; En la cultura &#161;bendito seas, L&#233;vi-Strauss!.</p><p>Un <em>pinball</em> no es la bolita, ni los <em>flippers</em>, ni las luces. <strong>Un </strong><em><strong>pinball</strong></em><strong> es la experiencia que pasa entre todo eso y un humano parado enfrente</strong>, tratando de que la bolita realice el recorrido correcto. Desbarata la m&#225;quina y no quedar&#225; un <em>pinball</em>: el resultado ser&#225; un mont&#243;n de chatarra &#161;<em>Capice</em>!</p><p>Volvamos al debate, y esta vez para pensar en ciencia ficci&#243;n. Dicen los estudiosos del fen&#243;meno OVNI que los extraterrestres conocidos como &#8220;Los Grises&#8221; son clones humanos del futuro que perdieron el alma, y que nos visitan y abducen con el objeto de corregir su ADN y recuperar el &#225;nima que perdieron en alg&#250;n momento. Para George Lucas, los primeros clones de la era <em>Prequel</em>, generados en laboratorios a partir del ADN de un cazador de recompensas conocido como Jango Fett, son tratados en sus historias como seres sin alma y de orden descartable. Dicen los conspiranoicos que los <em>troopers</em> representan a los Grises, una evoluci&#243;n clonada de los humanos.</p><p>A m&#237; no me preocupa si los Grises existen o no. Me interesa lo que un antrop&#243;logo ve de inmediato en ese movimiento: <strong>es el mismo mito, contado tres veces, en tres d&#233;cadas distintas, por tres tribus que no se hablan entre s&#237;.</strong> Uf&#243;logos, Hollywood y conspiranoicos narrando exactamente el mismo miedo: que uno puede optimizar tanto el cuerpo que se le termine olvidando para qu&#233; lo quer&#237;a.</p><p>Cuando un mito se repite as&#237; de terco, no est&#225; prediciendo nada, solo est&#225; avisando. <strong>El mito es el sistema inmune de la cultura, y lo que se&#241;ala aqu&#237; es concreto: nos aterra que el precio de la mejora sea el v&#237;nculo.</strong></p><p>Entonces&#8230; &#191;ser&#225; que el dise&#241;o transhumano nos llevar&#225; a categorizarnos como m&#225;s o menos humanos?</p><p>Para los m&#225;s cuchos que me leen: &#191;recuerdan <em>Gattaca</em>? La pel&#237;cula es de 1997, dirigida por Andrew Niccol; si no la has visto, es hora de verla. La idea central es que la huella gen&#233;tica de una persona es mucho m&#225;s importante que el esp&#237;ritu humano, la fuerza de voluntad y la determinaci&#243;n. La sociedad futurista de <em>Gattaca</em> separa estrictamente a los gen&#233;ticamente perfectos, nacidos predecididos, l&#233;ase dise&#241;ados, en matrices con ambientes controlados, a quienes llaman los &#8220;v&#225;lidos&#8221;, de los nacidos de parto natural, los &#8220;in-v&#225;lidos&#8221;, por considerarlos inferiores.</p><p>Ojo con el juego de palabras, que es la genialidad del guion y en espa&#241;ol se entiende mejor que en ingl&#233;s: <strong>&#8220;in-v&#225;lido&#8221; no significa enfermo. Significa que el sistema no lo valida</strong>; es decir, que no ha sido certificado.</p><p><strong>Gattaca no es una pel&#237;cula sobre gen&#233;tica; es una pel&#237;cula acerca de qui&#233;n administra las reglas de la m&#225;quina.</strong></p><p>Era una pel&#237;cula sobre Juaco.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!msCF!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2d7071-5e04-49c6-9e16-c6d6ed37fe57_1774x887.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!msCF!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8b2d7071-5e04-49c6-9e16-c6d6ed37fe57_1774x887.png 424w, 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La pregunta que sigue es mucho m&#225;s pedestre, mucho m&#225;s paisa y mucho m&#225;s urgente: <strong>&#191;cu&#225;nto van a costar los </strong><em><strong>tokens</strong></em><strong> para entrar en este juego?</strong></p><p>Porque acu&#233;rdense de c&#243;mo funcionaba aquel lugar. Todos all&#225; adentro est&#225;bamos separados por la plata, por el barrio, por el apellido y por el miedo. Todos, absolutamente todos, &#233;ramos iguales frente al pinball, <strong>la bolita de acero no preguntaba de qu&#233; estrato ven&#237;as.</strong> El que pon&#237;a el <em>token</em>, jugaba y punto.</p><p>Ese lugar fue lo m&#225;s parecido a la democracia que yo conoc&#237; en mi infancia, y aqu&#237; est&#225; el detalle que me tom&#243; cuarenta a&#241;os aprender. E<strong>se sal&#243;n no era una democracia porque alguien lo hubiera decretado, era democr&#225;tico porque el </strong><em><strong>token</strong></em><strong> costaba cinco pesos.</strong> El acceso barato fabric&#243; la igualdad, no el discurso. Nadie firm&#243; un manifiesto de inclusi&#243;n en la carrera 70; simplemente la moneda estaba al alcance de un mandado de hilos y botones.</p><p>Guarden esa especificaci&#243;n de dise&#241;o, que es la m&#225;s importante que les voy a dejar hoy.</p><p>Ahora traigamos el tema a valor presente. En el mundo que estamos dise&#241;ando, <strong>el </strong><em><strong>token</strong></em><strong> ya no cuesta cinco pesos.</strong> Una selecci&#243;n de embriones cuesta miles de d&#243;lares. Una cirug&#237;a de cr&#225;neo para insertar un implante que le devuelve el habla a alguien, otros tantos miles y no pocos. Un ri&#241;&#243;n editado gen&#233;ticamente cuesta lo mismo que un apartamento en Manhattan. Esa fila no la va a administrar un <em>bully</em> pelirrojo y mueco que a veces le regalaba una partida al ni&#241;o arrancado del barrio. <strong>Esa fila la va a administrar un algoritmo, una aseguradora, un comit&#233; o un pa&#237;s.</strong></p><p>Ojo, que no vine a repartir apocalipsis y ustedes ya me conocen. Antes de asustarnos con el precio, miremos qu&#233; es lo que ese <em>token</em> comprar&#225;, porque en este debate hay un sesgo que a m&#237; me molesta much&#237;simo: <strong>la cr&#237;tica al mejoramiento humano casi siempre la escribe alguien con un cuerpo que funciona bien.</strong></p><p>Es facil&#237;simo filosofar sobre los peligros de la interfaz cerebro-computador cuando uno puede hablar. Vayan y preg&#250;ntenle al paciente de esclerosis lateral que recuper&#243; su voz por un implante si le parece que estamos cruzando una l&#237;nea peligrosa. Preg&#250;ntenle a Tim Andrews, siete meses sin di&#225;lisis con un ri&#241;&#243;n de cerdo editado, si prefiere el debate bio&#233;tico o un domingo con los nietos.</p><p>Pongamos entonces las ganancias sobre la mesa, sin timidez y sin pedir permiso. Si el xenotrasplante funciona a escala, la frase &#8220;muri&#243; esperando un &#243;rgano&#8221; se vuelve una antig&#252;edad, como la viruela. La anemia falciforme y la talasemia ya tienen terapia g&#233;nica aprobada: no tratamiento, <strong>cura</strong>; enfermedades que castigaron durante siglos a poblaciones enteras salen del juego en una generaci&#243;n. <strong>La primera d&#233;cada del transhumanismo real no va a ser gente comprando superpoderes: va a ser gente recuperando lo que la vida le quit&#243;</strong>, el habla, el movimiento, la vista, la memoria o la esperanza de vivir una vida digna.</p><p>Hay incluso una puerta que a nosotros, en el sur, nos conviene m&#225;s que a nadie. Un pa&#237;s que nunca pudo construir suficientes hospitales de tercer nivel podr&#237;a saltarse la etapa completa, igual que nos saltamos la telefon&#237;a fija y nos fuimos directo al celular. <strong>El </strong><em><strong>leapfrog</strong></em><strong> m&#233;dico es una posibilidad real, y no conozco a nadie en Colombia que lo est&#233; planeando.</strong></p><p>Ahora bien, todo eso maravilloso tiene una condici&#243;n, y es la misma de la carrera 70. <strong>Si el local de la setenta exist&#237;a justo porque los </strong><em><strong>tokens</strong></em><strong> eran baratos, entonces la tarea de nuestras nuevas generaciones de dise&#241;adores, pol&#237;ticos y empresarios no es frenar la tecnolog&#237;a. Es bajarle el precio a los </strong><em><strong>tokens</strong></em><strong> antes de que alguien se apodere de ellos.</strong></p><p>Aqu&#237; est&#225; el punto que quiero que se lleven de esta secci&#243;n, porque cambia el oficio entero, <strong>esa ya no es una decisi&#243;n de ingenier&#237;a. Es una decisi&#243;n de dise&#241;o, y la vamos a tomar nosotros, sep&#225;moslo o no.</strong></p><p>Los dise&#241;adores del futuro vamos a tener que aprender otras habilidades m&#225;s all&#225; del Illustrator y el Photoshop. Vamos a tener que extender nuestra capacidad para leer los contextos de aplicaci&#243;n de lo que estamos dise&#241;ando: qui&#233;n paga, qui&#233;n queda por fuera, qu&#233; se hereda, qu&#233; se rompe. <strong>El dise&#241;o como disciplina tendr&#225; que meterse de lleno en las ciencias blandas</strong>: antropolog&#237;a, econom&#237;a pol&#237;tica, derecho, &#233;tica. No como decoraci&#243;n acad&#233;mica para la presentaci&#243;n, sino como herramienta de trabajo para extender sus principios fundamentales.</p><p>Porque cuando el <em>token</em> vale cinco pesos, uno dise&#241;a para el usuario. <strong>Cuando el </strong><em><strong>token</strong></em><strong> vale lo que un apartamento, uno ya no est&#225; dise&#241;ando para el usuario, est&#225; decidiendo qui&#233;n es usuario.</strong> Esa es otra profesi&#243;n, se&#241;ores, aunque nos siga cabiendo en la misma tarjeta de presentaci&#243;n.</p><h3><strong>El Saldo del Alma</strong></h3><p>Ahora bien, bajarle el precio a los <em>tokens</em> resuelve qui&#233;n entra al sal&#243;n. No resuelve la otra pregunta, la que da t&#237;tulo a esta Toma: una vez adentro, <strong>&#191;qu&#233; porcentaje de humano habr&#225; que ser para que a uno lo sigan llamando humano? y si ya no haremos HCD, &#191;para qu&#233; entidades estaremos dise&#241;ando?</strong></p><p>Para responder eso hay por lo menos dos caminos, elegir entre ellos es la decisi&#243;n de dise&#241;o m&#225;s grande del siglo.</p><p><strong>El primero es analizar atributos.</strong> Cu&#225;ntos huesos originales le quedan, cu&#225;nto silicio le metieron, cu&#225;ntos genes se le editaron. Es el m&#233;todo intuitivo, es el m&#233;todo de <em>Gattaca</em>, y creer&#237;a que es el que va a ganar por <em>default</em> si nadie propone otra cosa, porque es el &#250;nico que cabe en una casilla de formulario. Pero d&#233;jenme decirles que es un m&#233;todo p&#233;simo, y se los digo como antrop&#243;logo: <strong>por ese camino, un abuelo con marcapasos, cadera de titanio, aud&#237;fono y gafas ser&#237;a menos humano que un reci&#233;n nacido, y ninguno de nosotros cree eso ni por un segundo.</strong> Ese abuelo, con todas sus piezas de repuesto, es probablemente la persona m&#225;s humana de la casa.</p><p><strong>El segundo es analizar por relaci&#243;n.</strong> No preguntar de qu&#233; est&#225; hecho, sino a qui&#233;n pertenece, a qui&#233;n extra&#241;a, qui&#233;n lo extra&#241;ar&#237;a, qu&#233; hered&#243;, qu&#233; transmite, en qu&#233; mesa se sienta los domingos.</p><p>Yo firmo el segundo, y aqu&#237; es donde me voy a exponer a que se r&#237;an, porque le voy a poner nombre: <strong>ALMA.</strong></p><p>Antes de que los positivistas cierren la pesta&#241;a, aclaro que no estoy hablando en t&#233;rminos religiosos. Estoy hablando en t&#233;rminos de dise&#241;o, y la voy a definir operativamente, como se define cualquier requisito t&#233;cnico. <strong>El alma de algo no es una pieza, es un saldo acumulado de experiencias.</strong></p><p>Es lo que queda cuando uno suma todo lo que hered&#243; sin pedirlo, todo lo que le cost&#243;, todo lo que perdi&#243;, todo lo que transmiti&#243; y toda la gente a la que le hace falta. No se instala, no se compra y no se imprime. <strong>Se acumula, y solo se acumula viviendo hacia adelante, con tiempo, con p&#233;rdida y con relaciones.</strong></p><p>Por eso una m&#225;quina no lo tiene todav&#237;a, y no por falta de inteligencia. No lo tiene porque <strong>no hereda, no le duele el tiempo y nadie la va a extra&#241;ar.</strong> Puede llegar a simular esas tres cosas con una perfecci&#243;n que nos va a poner los pelos de punta, pero simular no es acumular.</p><p>En el futuro cercano, una m&#225;quina va a escribir un vallenato perfecto. M&#233;trica impecable, acorde&#243;n limpio, una letra que va a hacer llorar a alguien en una fiesta. <strong>Lo que no va a poder es extra&#241;ar a la mujer que inspir&#243; esa letra mientras escribio la obra.</strong></p><p><strong>El alma es exactamente eso: la diferencia entre componer y extra&#241;ar.</strong></p><p>Dicho esto voy rematando esta Toma, lo que nadie est&#225; mirando. Si el alma se acumula hereda y transmite, entonces <strong>el alma no vive en el cuerpo: vive en la cultura.</strong> Lo cual significa que todo el debate mundial est&#225; montado sobre la mitad f&#225;cil del problema. Est&#225;n discutiendo el <em>trans</em>-humanismo, que a la postre es un debate acerca del cuerpo. <strong>Lo dif&#237;cil, y lo que nadie est&#225; dise&#241;ando, es el </strong><em><strong>trans</strong></em><strong>-culturalismo.</strong></p><p>Pi&#233;nsenlo por un segundo. Si dentro de treinta a&#241;os tenemos cuerpos aumentados, memorias externas y vidas mucho m&#225;s largas, vamos a tener algo que esta especie nunca ha tenido, <strong>entidades con biograf&#237;as que no caben en una sola cultura.</strong> Gente que vivi&#243; ciento veinte a&#241;os y por lo tanto pertenece a tres &#233;pocas distintas. Gente con memoria prestada. Gente criada por sistemas y no solo por sus abuelas. <strong>El transhumano que no sea transcultural va a ser una cosa muy triste, un hu&#233;rfano con buenas piernas.</strong></p><p>&#191;Y saben qui&#233;n lleva quinientos a&#241;os entrenando exactamente para eso? Nosotros.</p><p><strong>Am&#233;rica Latina es el laboratorio transcultural m&#225;s viejo y m&#225;s exitoso del planeta.</strong> Somos el resultado de una mezcla que nadie plane&#243;, que fue dur&#237;sima, que cost&#243; sangre, y que produjo algo que funciona, un continente entero que sabe ser varias cosas a la vez sin romperse. Un paisa es ind&#237;gena, espa&#241;ol, africano, &#225;rabe y gringo al mismo tiempo, y almuerza frijoles con chicharron sin crisis de identidad. Nuestra comida es transcultural, nuestra m&#250;sica es transcultural, nuestro espa&#241;ol es transcultural&#8230; mejor no me pongan a hablar m&#225;s por que aqu&#237; me les quedo.</p><p>Mientras el mundo se pregunta c&#243;mo integrar identidades m&#250;ltiples en un solo cuerpo, <strong>nosotros llevamos medio milenio haci&#233;ndolo sin manual y sin subsidios.</strong> Esa es nuestra verdadera ventaja competitiva en el mundo del transhumano, y no el litio ni la biodiversidad. <strong>La ventaja es que aqu&#237; ya sabemos ser mezcla.</strong> El que sabe ser mezcla, sabe acoger, y el que sabe acoger va a saber qu&#233; hacer el d&#237;a que aparezca en la puerta una entidad que no sabemos si es una persona.</p><p>F&#237;jense en lo que acaba de pasar con nuestra pregunta, porque cambi&#243; de forma sin que nos di&#233;ramos cuenta. Arrancamos preguntando <strong>para qui&#233;n</strong> dise&#241;amos, y resulta que la respuesta no es una lista de usuarios: <strong>es una lista de herencias.</strong> Dise&#241;amos para el que va a recibir esto despu&#233;s de nosotros, tenga la forma que tenga.</p><p>Por eso insisto en que <strong>el Dise&#241;o m&#225;s all&#225; del Humano no es un problema t&#233;cnico ni un debate de laboratorio. Es un problema de dise&#241;o de reglas</strong>, y el dise&#241;o de reglas es, desde que el mundo es mundo, un asunto cultural, pol&#237;tico y antropol&#243;gico. No un asunto de tecnolog&#237;a e ingenier&#237;a.</p><h3><strong>Terminemos en &#8220;Las Maquinitas&#8221;</strong></h3><p>Con eso vuelvo a donde arrancamos, al sal&#243;n de la carrera 70, porque me niego a dejar esa imagen como una simple an&#233;cdota de viejo nost&#225;lgico.</p><p>M&#237;renla completa conmigo, por &#250;ltima vez. Un culicagao flaco, sin plata, parado frente a una <em>Check Mate</em> de Taito de 1977, mirando jugar a otros porque a &#233;l no le alcanzaba para comprar <em>tokens</em>. Al fondo, Juaco con las llaves en el cintur&#243;n. Alrededor, los pelaos estrato 6, los gamines, los maleantes, los &#241;o&#241;os, las ni&#241;as rebeldes, Alejo con los <em>cassettes</em> de Kreator bajo el brazo.</p><p>Ese ni&#241;o no sab&#237;a nada de lo que acabamos de discutir. Pero estaba parado, sin saberlo, dentro del modelo completo: <strong>una m&#225;quina, un cuerpo pegado a ella, un precio de entrada y alguien administrando las reglas.</strong> Lo &#250;nico que ha cambiado en cuarenta a&#241;os es la escala.</p><p>Uyy! pero hay una pieza de aquel sal&#243;n que todav&#237;a no hemos instalado en el mundo nuevo: <strong>El TILT.</strong></p><p>La m&#225;quina de <em>pinball</em> ten&#237;a un sensor que dec&#237;a &#8220;hasta aqu&#237;&#8221;. Sab&#237;a que el jugador iba a empujar, porque los jugadores siempre empujan, y por eso el l&#237;mite ven&#237;a de f&#225;brica, embebido en el dise&#241;o, no colgado de la buena voluntad de nadie.</p><p>Nosotros estamos empujando la m&#225;quina de la especie con las dos manos y con toda la cadera, convencidos de que si empujamos un poquito m&#225;s la bolita no se nos va por la salida. Estamos en todo nuestro derecho de empujar; empujar es lo que nos trajo hasta aqu&#237;. Lo que falta no es dejar de empujar. <strong>Lo que falta es instalar el sensor</strong>, y ni la gen&#233;tica, ni la neurotecnolog&#237;a, ni la IA lo tienen. Delegamos el l&#237;mite a la &#233;tica de cada quien, que es exactamente el lugar donde ning&#250;n l&#237;mite ha durado nunca.</p><p>Un dato que me quita el sue&#241;o y al mismo tiempo me entusiasma: el <em>Future of Humanity Institute</em> de Oxford, fundado por Nick Bostrom en 2005 para estudiar precisamente los riesgos existenciales de todo esto, cerr&#243; sus puertas el 16 de abril de 2024. La instituci&#243;n que exist&#237;a para ponerle el TILT a la humanidad se apag&#243; primero que la m&#225;quina.</p><p>L&#233;anlo con ojos de oportunidad y no de tragedia. <strong>Eso significa que el puesto est&#225; vacante.</strong> Por primera vez en la historia, el TILT no viene de f&#225;brica, <strong>nos toca escribirlo a nosotros.</strong> A m&#237; eso, como dise&#241;ador, me parece la mejor noticia del mundo. Es el encargo m&#225;s grande que ha recibido nuestro oficio desde que Gropius abri&#243; la Bauhaus.</p><p>Yo sigo creyendo lo que dije al principio, ahora con m&#225;s argumentos. <strong>La cultura nos va a salvar.</strong> No porque sea m&#225;s inteligente que la m&#225;quina, de hecho no lo es, y cada d&#237;a lo es menos, sino porque <strong>la cultura es singularmente persistente.</strong> Es el &#250;nico sistema operativo que se transmite por todos los canales posibles. Por la comida, por el chiste, por la canci&#243;n, por el duelo y por el apodo que le pusimos a un <em>bully</em> mueco en un sal&#243;n de maquinitas hace cuarenta a&#241;os y que todav&#237;a recordamos.</p><p>Esa es la frontera. No la administra Juaco, ni Silicon Valley, ni Elon. <strong>Esa la administramos nosotros, y solo mientras sigamos apareciendo a jugar.</strong></p><p>Para esta semana que comienza les dejo tarea, y va para dise&#241;adores y para no dise&#241;adores, porque todos siempre dise&#241;amos algo, y en esta casa no se salva nadie.</p><p><strong>Si usted dise&#241;a algo</strong>, lo que sea: una marca, un servicio, una pol&#237;tica, una <em>app</em>, una casa o un negocio, h&#225;gase la pregunta que este oficio dej&#243; de hacerse: &#191;qui&#233;n ser&#225; el usuario de esto que estoy dise&#241;ando en el 2045? &#191;Seguir&#225; siendo un humano de f&#225;brica, o un humano por adopci&#243;n? Y sobre todo: <strong>&#191;a qui&#233;n dejar&#225; por fuera mi dise&#241;o, cu&#225;nto costar&#237;a no dejarlo por fuera?</strong> Casi siempre la respuesta es &#8220;mucho menos de lo que uno cree&#8221;.</p><p><strong>Si usted no dise&#241;a nada</strong>, la tarea es m&#225;s corta y m&#225;s dif&#237;cil. Identifique una funci&#243;n humana suya que ya deleg&#243; en una m&#225;quina sin haberlo decidido conscientemente. La memoria de los tel&#233;fonos, la navegaci&#243;n en la ciudad, la ortograf&#237;a, la paciencia. Preg&#250;ntese si la quiere de vuelta o si la regal&#243; para siempre. No hay respuesta correcta, yo regal&#233; la memoria de los tel&#233;fonos y no la extra&#241;o, pero <strong>hay una diferencia enorme entre regalar y perder.</strong></p><p>Despu&#233;s hag&#225;monos todos, sin excepci&#243;n, la pregunta que separa a los que leen sobre el futuro de los que lo dise&#241;an. Es una sola, es corta, y lleva cuarenta a&#241;os esper&#225;ndome parada frente a un vidrio:</p><h3><strong>&#191;Para Qui&#233;n Estoy Dise&#241;ando? &#191;Para el que ya Tiene </strong><em><strong>tokens</strong></em><strong> en la Mano, o Para el que Est&#225; Afuera Mirando por la Ventana?</strong></h3><p>Cuando ese que est&#225; afuera ya no sea del todo humano, que va a pasar, y va a pasar antes de lo que estamos pensando.</p><p>Dejen esa reflexi&#243;n dando vueltas, que no los deje dormir del todo bien esta noche. Cuando tengan la respuesta, escr&#237;banmela en los comentarios. Los leo todos, aunque a veces sean poquito.</p><p>Nos leemos en la pr&#243;xima Toma. Ya sabes: si esta te movi&#243; el piso (o el cuerpo), comp&#225;rtela con ese amigo que todav&#237;a cree que el dise&#241;o es hacer cosas bonitas.</p><p>FUTOPIX | Futurismo para gente despierta. 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S&#237;, esos a los que algunos geeks encopetados llaman <em>&#8220;empresarios llorones&#8221;</em>, que por una u otra raz&#243;n vinimos a los Estados Unidos en b&#250;squeda de las oportunidades que en la tierra nos negaron. <strong>Es en este lugar donde se puede hacer un censo en vivo de la di&#225;spora colombiana.</strong></p><p>Hace un par de meses tuve que renovar mi pasaporte. Ustedes no alcanzan a imaginar la pesadilla por la que hay que pasar para lograrlo. <strong>El primer obst&#225;culo lo representa el sistema que ha dise&#241;ado el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores de Colombia. Una plataforma tecnol&#243;gica que m&#225;s bien parece estar dise&#241;ada para obligarte a desistir del tr&#225;mite que para ayudarte a hacerlo de una forma fluida.</strong> La famosa plataforma de citas es la t&#237;pica aplicaci&#243;n dise&#241;ada por ingenieros: un par de botones y un <em>link</em> con los que se pretende resolver los problemas, pero que a la hora de la verdad parece m&#225;s dise&#241;ada a espaldas del usuario que otra cosa. La falta de entendimiento de la experiencia de quien la usa (<em>UX</em>) y la poca l&#243;gica en la interfaz de usuario (<em>UI</em>) hacen del servicio de citas una pesadilla. (Como experto en el dise&#241;o de servicios me ofrezco como voluntario y les regalo los <em>blueprints</em> de usuario para que mejoren ese bodrio). Para colmo de males, solo entrega citas durante pocos minutos alrededor de las 10 de la ma&#241;ana. <strong>Cualquier tr&#225;mite en el consulado tomar&#225; el d&#237;a entero, as&#237; es que prep&#225;rese psicol&#243;gicamente antes de hacer cualquier diligencia en este lugar.</strong></p><p>Estuve tratando de conseguir la cita durante tres semanas, sin lograrlo. Solo me qued&#243; una opci&#243;n: buscar un <em>&#8220;tramitador&#8221;</em> que se moviera desde adentro para lograrlo. Sin pensarlo m&#225;s, pagu&#233; a un personaje $75 por conseguir la cita. Normalmente no me presto para alcahueter&#237;as, pero el tema era de car&#225;cter urgente y no me qued&#243; otra alternativa.</p><p>Resuelto el tema de la cita, me present&#233; en el consulado como cualquier otro colombiano, dispuesto a hacer el tr&#225;mite y a salir del lugar lo m&#225;s r&#225;pido posible. Para entrar al consulado, primero hay que pasar un guardia malencarado y luego hay que dirigirse a una taquilla donde uno debe identificarse para recibir un turno. Paso seguido pasas a la sala de espera y de ah&#237; en adelante, &#161;rel&#225;jate y disfruta!</p><p>Pasaron m&#225;s o menos 45 minutos cuando mi n&#250;mero fue llamado: <em>&#8220;C 067, oficina 5&#8221;</em>. Me levant&#233; y me fui a un escritorio en el interior del consulado. Ah&#237; me esperaba una dama, la cual ni me respondi&#243; el saludo. Solo me solicit&#243; entre dientes los documentos, procedi&#243; a decirme que me parase frente a la c&#225;mara y finalmente me dijo que en quince d&#237;as estar&#237;a listo mi nuevo pasaporte. Me desped&#237; escuetamente. </p><p><strong>No hubo sonrisa, no hubo cordialidad</strong>, solo me dije a m&#237; mismo <em>(ah&#237; est&#225;n pintaos estos progresistas)</em>.</p><p>Muchos de ustedes seguramente estar&#225;n pensando: s&#237;, yo estaba esperando que me tendieran alfombra roja o que me recibieran con un c&#243;ctel.</p><p>La verdad es: &#161;no! Pero tampoco quer&#237;a sentir que estaba en la embajada de los Estados Unidos, sinti&#233;ndome como cuando uno va a pedir la visa por primera vez. <strong>Se supone que el consulado es un pedacito de Colombia en USA, pero lo que uno no espera es que ese pedacito fuera el que me sac&#243; de Colombia, el pedazo de Colombia que queremos olvidar.</strong></p><p>Ahora bien, como de costumbre, durante los cuarenta y cinco minutos de espera y sin propon&#233;rmelo, se me prendi&#243; el radar. Empec&#233; a hacer exactamente lo mismo que hice frente a la m&#225;quina expendedora de comida para astronautas en el aeropuerto de Domod&#233;dovo (como les cont&#233; en la <em>Toma 44</em>). Frente a mis ojos comenzaron a desfilar personas y, como por arte de magia, sali&#243; el <em>Indiana Jones</em> que se esconde en m&#237;: comenc&#233; a contar personas, a identificar recurrencias y a construir arquetipos. Todo simult&#225;neo, todo en minutos. <strong>Es un tic profesional y, como muchos tics, este tambi&#233;n es incurable. Uno no deja de ser antrop&#243;logo porque sean las siete de la ma&#241;ana y le duela la espalda.</strong></p><p>Me sent&#233; de frente a la fila que hace la gente para la entrega de los famosos <em>fichos</em>. No lo hice porque me quer&#237;a dedicar a la <em>etnograf&#237;a</em>, sino porque as&#237; est&#225; dispuesta la sala. En la l&#237;nea de gente que desfilaba ante mis ojos hab&#237;a un se&#241;or de unos cincuenta y tantos a&#241;os. Vest&#237;a botas de trabajo con el cuero reventado en la punta, donde asomaba una placa de acero, y llevaba una camisa de una empresa de construcci&#243;n con el nombre bordado en el pecho. No soy chismoso, pero pude escuchar su conversaci&#243;n por tel&#233;fono en ese <em>spanglish</em> de obra que ya es un idioma con gram&#225;tica propia: <em>&#8220;pap&#225;, el drywall lo entregan el jueves, dile a Ram&#243;n que el inspector ya sali&#243; para all&#225;, y a Wilson que no me toque nada hasta que yo llegue.&#8221;</em></p><p>Detr&#225;s de &#233;l, dos se&#241;oras, madre e hija, el parecido entre ambas era evidente, discut&#237;an con esa intensidad nuestra acerca de si el local nuevo lo abrir&#237;an en Kendall o en Pembroke Pines. La mam&#225; dec&#237;a Kendall porque <em>&#8220;all&#225; est&#225; la clientela&#8221;</em>, mientras la hija replicaba que en Pembroke porque <em>&#8220;all&#225; la gente tiene m&#225;s recursos&#8221;</em>. Ninguna de las dos ced&#237;a en su posici&#243;n; yo creo que llevaban a&#241;os en esa conversaci&#243;n.</p><p>M&#225;s atr&#225;s, un muchacho de camisa planchada y morral, tecleando en el celular con el pulgar a velocidad de ametralladora, con la cara que uno pone cuando est&#225; resolviendo tres cosas a la vez, esa cara que los que trabajamos con tecnolog&#237;a sabemos identificar. M&#225;s atr&#225;s en la fila, una se&#241;ora con uniforme de sal&#243;n de belleza y las u&#241;as hechas de una manera que solo se logra cuando uno es del gremio. Y de &#250;ltimo, un tipo con un malet&#237;n de cuero, de esos que uno puede comprar cuando le va bien en los negocios y quiere que se note apenas lo justo.</p><p>Todo parec&#237;a ser un d&#237;a normal en el consulado&#8230; Sin embargo, <em>&#8220;Indi&#8221;</em> me grit&#243; al o&#237;do: <strong>ah&#237; tienes la foto de la di&#225;spora colombiana.</strong> Un contratista de construcci&#243;n, dos empresarias de <em>retail</em>, un tipo de tecnolog&#237;a, la due&#241;a de sal&#243;n, un se&#241;or con malet&#237;n caro, m&#225;s unos treinta o cuarenta compatriotas m&#225;s sentados, m&#225;s aburridos que una lora en una fiesta de sordomudos, cada uno con su propia historia. <strong>Yo dir&#237;a, calculando por lo bajo y con toda la prudencia del mundo, que en esa sala, esa ma&#241;ana, hab&#237;a m&#225;s facturaci&#243;n anual que la que existe en varios municipios colombianos.</strong> Empleos generados, impuestos pagados, proveedores contratados, arriendos honrados e hijos educados a pulso.</p><p>No soy el t&#237;pico <em>man</em> que come <em>callao</em> y se dedica a contar ovejitas mientras espera. Entonces no me aguant&#233;, la curiosidad me puede: as&#237; como en Domod&#233;dovo termin&#233; pregunt&#225;ndole a una desconocida qu&#233; estaba comiendo, esta vez le habl&#233; al se&#241;or de las botas. Romp&#237; el silencio con la excusa boba del clima&#8230;</p><p>&#8212;Vecino, &#161;qu&#233; calor m&#225;s bravo!</p><p>A lo que &#233;l respondi&#243;:</p><p>&#8212;Y eso que estamos aqu&#237; en el aire acondicionado; all&#225; en las obras est&#225; pegando fuego.</p><p>Ah&#237; se abri&#243; el tema&#8230;</p><p>&#8212;Vecino, &#191;y hace cu&#225;nto est&#225; por ac&#225;?</p><p>Veintid&#243;s a&#241;os, me dijo. Lleg&#243; en el 2003 a instalar <em>drywall</em> como ayudante y hoy tiene su empresa. Le pregunt&#233;, ya envalentonado, cu&#225;nta gente le trabajaba.</p><p>&#8212;Fijos, catorce. Con los subcontratos, en temporada, llegamos a cuarenta y pico.</p><p><strong>Catorce empleos fijos. Cuarenta en temporada. Veintid&#243;s a&#241;os. Un tipo que lleg&#243; cargando l&#225;minas de </strong><em><strong>drywall</strong></em><strong> y hoy es el que firma los cheques.</strong></p><p>Y entonces le hice la pregunta que de verdad quer&#237;a hacerle:</p><p>&#8212;&#191;Y ven&#237;s mucho al consulado?</p><p>Solt&#243; una risa, un tanto burlona, no con amargura, ojo, eso es lo que m&#225;s me impresion&#243;. Se rio con la naturalidad del que le explica algo obvio a un turista.</p><p>&#8212;&#191;El consulado? Hermano&#8230; <strong>el consulado sabe que yo existo cada diez a&#241;os, cuando vengo a renovar el pasaporte.</strong></p><p>Ah&#237; termin&#243; mi trabajo de campo y empez&#243; el porque de esta <em>Toma</em>.</p><p>Salimos todos de ah&#237; esa ma&#241;ana con el papel sellado, el tr&#225;mite hecho, el estacionamiento pagado, y con el Estado colombiano sabiendo exactamente lo mismo que sab&#237;a antes de que lleg&#225;ramos: <strong>nuestro nombre, nuestra c&#233;dula, y que seguimos vivos.</strong></p><p>Aqu&#237; viene la tesis de esta <em>Toma</em>, as&#237; que ag&#225;rrense del pelo, porque lo que viene es candela:</p><p><strong>Colombia tiene un departamento entero viviendo fuera del pa&#237;s, produciendo m&#225;s divisas que el caf&#233;, y lo sigue administrando como si fuera una notar&#237;a.</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Y tiene, adem&#225;s, unos <strong>cinco millones de nacionales viviendo en el exterior. Si esa di&#225;spora fuera un departamento, ser&#237;a m&#225;s poblado que unos veinte de los treinta y dos que ya existen.</strong> Le ganar&#237;a a Caldas, a Risaralda, al Quind&#237;o, a Boyac&#225;, al Huila, al Choc&#243; y a toda la Amazon&#237;a junta, sin despeinarse. Tendr&#237;a capital, dialectos, gastronom&#237;a adaptada, fiestas y emisoras. Y tendr&#237;a algo que a los departamentos reales les cuesta much&#237;simo: <strong>una clase empresarial formada en la intemperie, sin subsidios, sin contratos estatales y sin padrinos pol&#237;ticos.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ese departamento existe. Funciona. Produce. Exporta divisas. Lo &#250;nico que no tiene es reconocimiento institucional. De ah&#237; el nombre de esta <em>Toma</em>: <strong>el Departamento 33.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#191;Y su capital? No queda en Nueva York, que fue la capital hist&#243;rica y ya no lo es, ni en Madrid, que es la capital sentimental. <strong>La capital del Departamento 33 queda en Florida</strong>, y lleva dos d&#233;cadas esperando que alguien en Bogot&#225; tenga la decencia de reconocerlo.</p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>El Tablero de Se&#241;ales</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Dejemos de lado la poes&#237;a de and&#233;n para pasar a la <em>data</em> pura y dura. Aqu&#237; me despojar&#233; del sombrero de cronista para concentrarme en la data, pues <strong>como dicen los economistas: </strong><em><strong>&#8220;dato mata relato&#8221;</strong></em>, o como dicen otros m&#225;s atrevidos: <em>&#8220;billetera mata gal&#225;n&#8221;</em>.</p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 1 | La Plata ya Habl&#243;, y Habl&#243; en nombre de la Di&#225;spora</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">En 2025 Colombia recibi&#243; <strong>US$13.098 millones en remesas</strong>: r&#233;cord hist&#243;rico (al final les dejo las fuentes), 10,6% m&#225;s que el a&#241;o anterior, cerca del 3% del PIB. Hasta aqu&#237;, la noticia de siempre. Como en la IA, el contexto es el rey: ese mismo a&#241;o la inversi&#243;n extranjera directa, ll&#225;mense multinacionales, fondos, petroleras, mineras, bancos, es decir, todos juntos, fue de <strong>US$11.469 millones</strong>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">En pocas palabras, <strong>por primera vez desde 2004, los colombianos de afuera le metieron m&#225;s d&#243;lares al pa&#237;s que todos los inversionistas del planeta juntos.</strong> Eso nos habla de dos historias: la IED se desplom&#243; 16,1% en un a&#241;o y 33,2% desde su pico de 2022 (miner&#237;a, &#8722;95,4%; manufactura, &#8722;42,8%, todo eso gracias a Berto).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As&#237;, <strong>mientras el capital institucional del mundo sal&#237;a por la puerta, los colombianos del Departamento 33 entraban por la ventana con plata constante y sonante en el bolsillo.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">El dato que me dej&#243; mirando pa&#8217;l techo: en 2025 el caf&#233; tuvo <strong>el mejor a&#241;o de exportaciones de su historia</strong>. Unos US$5.500 millones, la mejor cosecha en treinta y tres a&#241;os. Sin embargo, <strong>las remesas fueron casi dos veces y media ese r&#233;cord.</strong> El producto que tiene mascota propia con mula, sombrero y bigote factura <strong>menos de la mitad</strong> de lo que mandan a la casa unos se&#241;ores que se fueron, entre ellos los <em>empresarios chillones</em>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Este flujo de caja no depende de la broca, ni del clima, ni de la bolsa de New York, ni de Elon Musk, ni de Bitcoin. Depende de negocios menos <em>sexis</em>; <strong>depende de una sola variable: que a los nuestros les vaya bien aqu&#237;, en el ostracismo.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Hag&#225;monos las siguientes preguntas: <strong>si el caf&#233; tiene Federaci&#243;n, fondo de estabilizaci&#243;n, centro de investigaci&#243;n, marca pa&#237;s y hasta personaje animado&#8230; &#191;qu&#233; tiene el rengl&#243;n que factura dos veces y media m&#225;s?</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">La respuesta es: tiene una ventanilla, un turno y una oficina en Coral Gables con aire acondicionado.</p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 2 | Miami Dej&#243; de ser Destino de Compras y se Volvi&#243; el Puente</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">De los 1,6 millones de personas de origen colombiano que se estima viven en Estados Unidos, <strong>el 35% est&#225; en la Florida</strong>; New York, la capital hist&#243;rica, tiene solo el 13%. Pero esta se&#241;al no es la demograf&#237;a, que lleva veinte a&#241;os igual: <strong>es que Florida cambi&#243; de naturaleza mientras segu&#237;amos creyendo que era donde uno iba a comprar tenis y tomarse fotos con Mickey Mouse.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Miami se volvi&#243;, en menos de una d&#233;cada, un centro financiero y tecnol&#243;gico de verdad: m&#225;s de <strong>US$4.130 millones</strong> levantados por su ecosistema de <em>startups</em> y <strong>seis unicornios. La mayor concentraci&#243;n de colombianos de Estados Unidos vive encima del puente financiero m&#225;s importante entre Norteam&#233;rica y Am&#233;rica Latina</strong>, y ese activo est&#225; quieto, como la vajilla fina que las abuelas guardan para una ocasi&#243;n que nunca llega. Ya hablamos de esa vajilla en la <em>Toma 43</em>: <strong>eso es como tener el mejor lote del barrio y usarlo para parqueaderos.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 3 | Tenemos una Llave que Casi Nadie Tiene</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">La visa <strong>E-2</strong>, la de <em>&#8220;inversionista por tratado&#8221;</em>, permite operar un negocio propio con estad&#237;as renovables de manera indefinida mientras la empresa funcione. <strong>Solo aplica para ciudadanos de pa&#237;ses con tratado comercial vigente con Estados Unidos: unos ochenta, de casi doscientos.</strong> Para que tengamos dimensi&#243;n del tema, digamos que <strong>Colombia cuenta con este privilegio, mientras que Brasil, la econom&#237;a m&#225;s grande de Am&#233;rica Latina, no.</strong> Es decir, <strong>el pasaporte colombiano, el que nos hace tomar la fila m&#225;s larga en cualquier aeropuerto, nos abre una puerta de negocios que los brasileros no tienen.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#191;Qu&#233; instituci&#243;n colombiana promociona con estrategia y presupuesto esta ventaja? <em>Aver&#237;g&#252;elo, Vargas</em>&#8230; <strong>Somos ese vecino que tiene un Picasso colgado en el garaje, tapando una gotera.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 4 | La Foto no es el Personaje</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">El colombiano en Estados Unidos tiene <strong>35% de educaci&#243;n superior</strong>, solo <strong>14% sin bachillerato</strong> (contra 26% del promedio extranjero) y una <strong>participaci&#243;n laboral del 69%</strong>, superior a la de los propios nacidos all&#225;. Es decir, <strong>trabajamos m&#225;s que los gringos</strong>&#8230; Pong&#225;moslo en una valla. El <strong>63% de los colombianos ya est&#225; naturalizado</strong>: somos <strong>una di&#225;spora asentada, con papeles, casa propia y cr&#233;dito.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Pero cuando me puse en la tarea de escribir este FUTOPIX, el dato que me reorganiz&#243; los mu&#241;ecos mentales fue otro: <strong>el 89% de las nuevas residencias colombianas se otorgan por reunificaci&#243;n familiar. El colombiano no llega a Estados Unidos a emprender: llega por la familia, y emprende despu&#233;s.</strong> Llegamos con el coraz&#243;n, no con un plan de negocios, y despu&#233;s de cinco o diez a&#241;os trabajando para otros se nos sale el berraco que llevamos por dentro y montamos negocios. Ah&#237; est&#225; la falla de dise&#241;o m&#225;s costosa del asunto: <strong>todos los programas que existen hoy, ll&#225;mense ferias, ruedas de negocios, misiones comerciales, aceleradoras, est&#225;n dise&#241;ados para el que llega a emprender. Est&#225;n atendiendo la puerta por la que casi nadie entra: es como poner el mejor restaurante del mundo en la salida de emergencia de un cine.</strong> Hace rato vengo echando cantaleta acerca de que <strong>el problema no es emprender, el problema real es escalar.</strong> Los colombianos en USA no necesitan ayuda para emprender, eso lo hacen por naturaleza; <strong>lo que necesitan es ayuda para escalar sus iniciativas de negocios.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 5 | Arbitraje con Acento</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Le voy a poner un nombre bien elegante, si me lo permiten: <strong>el operador binacional.</strong> <em>Front office</em> en Miami y operaci&#243;n de apoyo en Medell&#237;n, Bogot&#225; o Cali. Casi todos los clientes de mi portafolio tienen este perfil: <strong>venden aqu&#237;, fabrican all&#225;</strong>, bajo el mismo huso horario que New York, costos operativos de la mitad o menos, tres horas y media de vuelo entre las dos puntas. <strong>Estos empresarios no migraron: se desdoblaron.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Es el perfil m&#225;s rentable y tambi&#233;n <strong>el que ninguna estad&#237;stica captura.</strong> No son exportadores, no son migrantes y no son inversionistas extranjeros. &#191;Entonces c&#243;mo les llamamos? <strong>Nuestros sistemas de medici&#243;n han sido dise&#241;ados para un mundo donde uno est&#225; adentro o afuera, pero no en el medio. Esta gente, en t&#233;rminos estad&#237;sticos, no est&#225; ni aqu&#237; ni all&#225;.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 6 | Mercaderes de la Nostalgia</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">M&#233;xico lo convirti&#243; en pol&#237;tica de exportaciones hace veinte a&#241;os, porque entendi&#243; algo simple: <strong>el migrante no es solo alguien que manda plata a casa; es alguien que le compra a su casa.</strong> Bocadillo, panela, arequipe, aguardiente, chocolate de mesa, obleas: la bandeja del domingo reconstruida a punta de importaciones en una cocina de Weston. Son 1,6 millones de personas con ingreso de pa&#237;s rico comprando <strong>a precio pleno y sin publicidad, porque el </strong><em><strong>marketing</strong></em><strong> ya se lo hizo la abuelita hace treinta a&#241;os: el &#250;nico mercado de exportaci&#243;n donde la marca pa&#237;s no existe, pero ya viene instalada desde la f&#225;brica.</strong> Ese canal est&#225; en manos de los mercados de barrio (porque aqu&#237; tambi&#233;n hay) y del heroico sistema log&#237;stico de <em>&#8220;mi prima me trajo&#8221;</em>.</p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 7 | La Florida que Envejece</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Florida es el estado m&#225;s viejo del pa&#237;s, <strong>21,8% de su poblaci&#243;n tiene 65 a&#241;os o m&#225;s</strong>, y eso ya lo sab&#237;amos; es por eso que en otras partes del pa&#237;s, jocosamente, se refieren a la Florida como <em>la sala de espera del cielo</em>. Lo que no sab&#237;amos es que <strong>ocupa el puesto 50 de 50 en disponibilidad de trabajadores de cuidado en casa: 17 por cada 1.000 adultos mayores, contra un promedio nacional de 65.</strong> Crucen eso con <strong>la emprendedora colombiana del cuidado</strong>, que ya est&#225; en el sector y opera un negocio informal sin acceso a capital. <strong>Hay una industria multimillonaria con demanda desatendida encima de la mayor concentraci&#243;n de colombianas de Estados Unidos, y no existe un solo programa que conecte esas dos frases.</strong> En el idioma de mi abuela: <strong>es como tener el pan y el queso en las manos y andar chillando de hambre.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La se&#241;al que incomoda.</strong> De los cinco millones de colombianos que viven en el exterior, se estima que <strong>apenas unos 990.000 est&#225;n registrados en los consulados</strong> (digo que se estima porque no tengo los n&#250;meros oficiales). <strong>Eso es menos del 20%.</strong> El dato que tengo no lo saqu&#233; de un panfleto opositor, lo public&#243; la propia Canciller&#237;a (pero toda la data producida por el gobierno saliente hay que tomarla con pinzas). Me temo que <strong>el Estado colombiano no sabe d&#243;nde est&#225;, ni a qu&#233; se dedica, ni cu&#225;nto factura, ni cu&#225;nta gente emplea el 80% de su propia di&#225;spora.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ese dato me dej&#243; pensando: &#191;ser&#225; que s&#237;? Por eso me puse a indagar m&#225;s en el tema. Busqu&#233; una cifra concreta: <strong>&#191;cu&#225;ntas empresas de propiedad colombiana operan en Florida?</strong> &#191;Y saben qu&#233;? <strong>&#161;El n&#250;mero no existe!</strong> No la tiene la Canciller&#237;a, ni ProColombia, ni ninguna c&#225;mara de comercio. Adem&#225;s, no la tiene el Censo de Estados Unidos, que nos mete en la bolsa de <em>&#8220;Hispanic-owned businesses&#8221;</em> junto a cubanos, mexicanos y venezolanos: una categor&#237;a tan &#250;til como decir &#8220;n&#250;mero de especies mam&#237;feras&#8221; cuando lo que uno quiere es hablar de ballenas. Es lo que muchos economistas llamar&#237;an <strong>la doble invisibilidad estad&#237;stica</strong>: no aparecemos en la contabilidad colombiana porque ya no somos &#8220;exportaci&#243;n&#8221;, ni en la estadounidense porque nos diluyen en una categor&#237;a gen&#233;rica. En esa <em>liminalidad</em> (pens&#233; que me escapar&#237;a de decir esta palabra en este FUTOPIX) <strong>hay miles de empresas y cientos de miles de empleos: este es el silencio m&#225;s ruidoso y caro de Colombia.</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nauh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdec79b52-554d-4518-bdfa-1a7c4dbb2b49_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!nauh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdec79b52-554d-4518-bdfa-1a7c4dbb2b49_1536x1024.png 424w, 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Los venezolanos, en menos de quince a&#241;os, un enclave tan denso que a Doral le dicen <em>Doralzuela</em> y todo el mundo entiende el chiste. <strong>Nosotros somos m&#225;s antiguos, m&#225;s numerosos y tal vez con m&#225;s educaci&#243;n. Tenemos restaurantes buen&#237;simos, panader&#237;as que salvan vidas los domingos y pr&#225;cticamente cero instituciones.</strong> Les dejo mi explicaci&#243;n, en cinco piezas.</p><h4><strong><span>Pieza 1 | Cinco Olas</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Toda instituci&#243;n de di&#225;spora nace de un &#8220;nosotros&#8221; que alguien pueda pronunciar sin que le tiemble la voz. Los cubanos tienen uno, con fecha y con villano: el exilio del 59. La implacable historia colombiana dice que <strong>nosotros tenemos cinco momentos pico que motivaron a la gente a salir del pa&#237;s.</strong> <em>La primera ola</em>, la de los ochenta: huimos de la violencia y llegamos a USA con el estigma pegado a la maleta. <em>La segunda</em> lleg&#243; en el 99, gracias al desplome del UPAC: la clase media que perdi&#243; su casa y aterriz&#243; en Miami con un diploma que aqu&#237; no val&#237;a nada e, infelizmente, a&#250;n sigue pasando; <strong>estamos llenos de ingenieros manejando Uber</strong>. <em>La tercera ola</em> ocurri&#243; durante los 2000: muchos colombianos se fueron por temor al secuestro y la extorsi&#243;n causados por los grupos rebeldes. <em>La cuarta ola</em>, la d&#233;cada del 2010: esta ola trajo profesionales j&#243;venes y gente de tecnolog&#237;a, que vinieron buscando oportunidades y no por miedo. <em>La quinta ola</em>, la d&#233;cada del 2020: el capital, que se fue con la plata primero y el cuerpo despu&#233;s.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">El detalle brutal, el que solo se ve cuando se hace trabajo de campo mirando filas: <strong>cada ola le tiene un poquito de desconfianza a la anterior y un poquito de desd&#233;n a la siguiente.</strong> El de los noventa mira con recelo al reci&#233;n llegado con plata, &#8220;&#191;este <em>man</em> de d&#243;nde sali&#243;?&#8221;; el reci&#233;n llegado no quiere que lo confundan con el colombiano que se <em>encucheci&#243;</em> aqu&#237;. <strong>Sin un relato &#250;nico, no hay instituciones &#250;nicas.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>Pieza 2 | Lo que Nunca Cuaj&#243;</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Este es el hallazgo central de esta <em>Toma</em>. El <em>&#8220;Capital Comunitario &#201;tnico&#8221;</em>, esa red en donde los paisanos se prestan plata, se avalan y se recomiendan clientes, <strong>funcion&#243; espectacularmente para los cubanos, e inclusive para los jud&#237;os de Miami, pero no ha replicado resultados con nosotros, porque corre sobre una infraestructura invisible llamada confianza interpersonal.</strong> Venimos de un pa&#237;s donde eso qued&#243; averiado por medio siglo de conflicto y econom&#237;as ilegales. <strong>Colombia est&#225; en los &#250;ltimos lugares del mundo en confianza en el otro.</strong> No hablo de las instituciones, hablo de algo m&#225;s b&#225;sico: <strong>&#191;usted cree que uno puede confiar en la mayor&#237;a de la gente?</strong> Nuestra respuesta colectiva durante d&#233;cadas sigue siendo&#8230; &#8220;pues&#8230; depende&#8221;. <strong>Esa respuesta viaja por todos los territorios en los que habita la cultura criolla: aterriza en el Doral, en Kendall y hasta en Weston de forma intacta, sin </strong><em><strong>jet lag</strong></em><strong>.</strong> Cuando toca confiar en un colombiano que uno no conoce, aparece el reflejo nacional m&#225;s entrenado de todos: <strong>&#8220;&#191;Y ese </strong><em><strong>man</strong></em><strong> qui&#233;n es?&#8221; As&#237; no se construye un enclave: as&#237; se construyen cinco mil negocios excelentes que no se conocen entre s&#237;.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">A&#241;&#225;danle a esta geograf&#237;a Jackson Heights (NY) y Elizabeth o <em>&#8220;Elizalombia&#8221;</em> (NJ), 35.000 colombianos de 125.000 habitantes. S&#237;, se&#241;ores: hicimos un barrio, porque <strong>al noreste llegamos pobres, a una ciudad densa donde uno se topa con el vecino qui&#233;ralo o no.</strong> Pero a la Florida llegamos con plata, llegamos al suburbio, <strong>que es una m&#225;quina antisocial de eficiencia notable. El colombiano de Florida no dej&#243; de ser comunitario, solo se compr&#243; una casa que hace muy dif&#237;cil serlo.</strong> La ecuaci&#243;n: <strong>baja confianza + baja densidad = la di&#225;spora m&#225;s numerosa y menos organizada de Florida.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>Pieza 3 | La Cicatriz que no se Borra</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Todo empresario colombiano aqu&#237; carga un pasivo reputacional que no gener&#243;: se llama <em>&#8220;los ochenta&#8221;</em>, se llama <em>&#8220;Pablo Escobar&#8221;</em>, y se llama, esto es lo m&#225;s perverso de todo, <strong>un mont&#243;n de series de televisi&#243;n que le refrescaron la memoria al mundo cuando ya casi los hab&#237;amos olvidado.</strong> El efecto es medible: <strong>el empresario colombiano es muy malito para comprar conocimiento</strong>, es una pobreza para invertir en <em>know-how</em> que a&#250;n no consigo explicar, porque se cree tan vivo y pilo que no necesita nada de nadie. Es por eso que <strong>se queda peque&#241;o a prop&#243;sito, o para no llamar la atenci&#243;n.</strong> <em>&#8220;Prefiero peque&#241;o y tranquilo.&#8221;</em> <strong>Es un techo que se pone &#233;l solito, y donde la visibilidad es el canal de ventas, esconderse es literalmente dejar de facturar.</strong> De esto ya he hablado montones en otros FUTOPIX.</p><h4><strong><span>Pieza 4 | Alta Capacidad, Cero Legibilidad</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Los colombianos llegamos a este pa&#237;s con un sistema operativo de alt&#237;simo rendimiento: recursividad, <em>&#8220;malicia ind&#237;gena&#8221;</em>, capacidad de resolver sin pedir permiso. En Colombia eso se llama <strong>ser berraco</strong> y es virtud. Pero <strong>nada de eso es legible para el sistema que reparte el capital en Estados Unidos:</strong> el rebusque no genera historial crediticio, la factura hecha a mano no genera estados auditables, el que cobra en efectivo no genera capacidad de endeudamiento. Resultado: <strong>alt&#237;sima capacidad operativa y cero acceso a capital.</strong> Adem&#225;s, ser vivo o <em>avi&#243;n</em> no es bien visto en este pa&#237;s, y a veces termina produciendo rechazo. Ahora bien, <strong>no es que el sistema discrimine, es que no nos ve, porque nadie ha tenido la capacidad de traducirnos: la brecha que tenemos no es de talento, es de contar con instituciones que tengan la capacidad de traducci&#243;n.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>Pieza 5 | La Regi&#243;n Manda Sobre la Naci&#243;n</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Para la di&#225;spora, <strong>&#8220;colombiano&#8221; es una categor&#237;a de pasaporte, no de identidad operativa.</strong> El <strong>paisa</strong> hace negocios por reputaci&#243;n y red de amigos y recomendados: uno no le compra a un paisa, le compra a alguien que le respondi&#243; por &#233;l. El <strong>rolo</strong> opera por credenciales y trayectoria, mientras que el <strong>coste&#241;o</strong> se mueve por relaciones personales: si no nos hemos tomado algo juntos, no hay negocios. El <strong>valluno</strong>, y no es casualidad que el Valle sea el departamento que <strong>m&#225;s remesas recibe del pa&#237;s</strong>, US$2.525 millones entre enero y septiembre de 2025, tiene la red migratoria m&#225;s aceitada. <strong>Un programa dise&#241;ado gen&#233;ricamente &#8220;para colombianos&#8221; es como dise&#241;ar un zapato talla &#250;nica.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La pieza que nos falta: el marco mental.</strong> Durante tres d&#233;cadas la pol&#237;tica de Colombia hacia su di&#225;spora se construy&#243; sobre un marco casi nunca examinado: el migrante como sujeto vulnerable a proteger. &#161;Eso es necesario y hay que hacerlo mejor! <strong>Un Estado que no protege a los suyos afuera no es un Estado, es un membrete con escudo.</strong> Pero <strong>el problema es de aritm&#233;tica, no de ideolog&#237;a: ese marco describe a una fracci&#243;n de la di&#225;spora y le da la espalda a la parte que financia todo lo dem&#225;s.</strong> Ve al que necesita ayuda y no ve al que emplea a cuarenta personas; <strong>dise&#241;amos ventanillas de tr&#225;mite y nunca, ni una sola vez, hemos dise&#241;ado una ventanilla de negocios.</strong> Ojo, <strong>esto no es culpa de un gobierno</strong>: los &#250;ltimos, de todos los colores, han firmado ese marco te&#243;rico sin leerlo.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!CPmJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe0c51d01-e008-475f-badf-b41562f1a585_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Este es el camino hacia la construcci&#243;n de <strong>hip&#243;tesis rigurosas, aunque no puede leerse como el evangelio de la sociedad.</strong> A continuaci&#243;n les dejo algunos arquetipos que, en mi opini&#243;n, representan la di&#225;spora colombiana.</p><p><strong>1. Carlos Mario, ingeniero el&#233;ctrico | El Profesional Reconvertido.</strong> Su t&#237;tulo no vale aqu&#237;, o vale algo despu&#233;s de cinco a&#241;os y treinta mil d&#243;lares. Es el personaje que <strong>monta una empresa como atajo alrededor de una credencial que se le volvi&#243; papel higi&#233;nico al cruzar la frontera.</strong> Lo que este compatriota busca no es plata&#8230; <strong>es recuperar el estatus que perdi&#243; en la aduana. Colombia pag&#243; su universidad; Estados Unidos se qued&#243; con el m&#250;sculo, pero no le desconect&#243; el cerebro.</strong></p><p><strong>2. Do&#241;a Gloria, enfermera | La Emprendedora del Cuidado.</strong> En la mayor&#237;a de los casos se trata de mujeres con amplia experiencia en temas relacionados con la belleza, las u&#241;as, la est&#233;tica, la comida, el <em>catering</em>, el cuidado de mayores y el aseo. Yo dir&#237;a que es <strong>el cl&#250;ster m&#225;s grande en n&#250;mero y el m&#225;s invisible en todos los programas.</strong> Ning&#250;n evento de emprendimiento la ha invitado, y creo que tampoco ir&#237;an, porque a las seis de la tarde de un jueves est&#225;n trabajando. <strong>Si hay una bomba de valor sin detonar en esta </strong><em><strong>Toma</strong></em><strong>, son estas se&#241;oras.</strong></p><p><strong>3. Rodrigo, especialista en servicios digitales | El Operador Binacional.</strong> Tal como lo expliqu&#233; al principio, estos tienen el <em>front office</em> aqu&#237; y el <em>back office</em> en Colombia. Tal vez sean <strong>los m&#225;s rentables</strong> y quienes, a simple vista, podr&#237;an tener <strong>los problemas m&#225;s resolubles, porque no son asuntos de orden cultural, sino m&#225;s bien t&#233;cnicos</strong>: construcci&#243;n de estructuras societarias, pagos transfronterizos, doble tributaci&#243;n, constituci&#243;n de empresas, apertura de cuentas bancarias, etc. Si les contara a cu&#225;ntos amigos m&#237;os les he prestado la direcci&#243;n de mi casa para crear una empresa, no me creer&#237;an; mejor dicho, <strong>si yo abriera una empresa para recibir el correo de mis amigos, me ir&#237;a mejor que como consultor.</strong> Casi todos los problemas de estos amigos se arreglar&#237;an con <strong>informaci&#243;n buena y asesor&#237;a honesta.</strong></p><p><strong>4. Santiago, con apellido de alcurnia | El Heredero.</strong> Es el <em>gom&#233;lo</em> que ha sido enviado por la empresa familiar, o que de alguna manera busca la diversificaci&#243;n del patrimonio. Est&#225;n bien capitalizados, pero casi siempre <strong>espantosamente mal asesorados, porque a &#233;l nadie lo aconseja: a este </strong><em><strong>man</strong></em><strong> le venden</strong>, y casi siempre terminan estafados, frustrados o pagando cantidades vergonzosas por un proceso simple. Este colombiano no necesita un tercero que no le est&#233; vendiendo nada, sino <strong>acompa&#241;amiento que le muestre el camino m&#225;s expedito hacia la concreci&#243;n de sus intereses. Este es el producto m&#225;s escaso del mercado.</strong></p><p><strong>5. Andr&#233;s, emprendedor serial | El Fundador Tech.</strong> Con estos me topo casi a diario: el <em>man</em> que sabe tanto que termina sabiendo nada; a veces el que quiere comerse el mercado de los Estados Unidos, pero eso s&#237;, <strong>con las mismas estrategias que usa en Medell&#237;n y ojal&#225; sin invertir ni un d&#243;lar</strong> (<em>&#8220;ay&#250;dame, que cuando le peguemos al tema, yo te pago&#8221;</em>). S&#237;, les hablo del <em>chacho</em> de las fotos, el de los foros empresariales y del podcast; el que s&#237; atienden ProColombia y aterriza en los c&#243;cteles oficiales. <strong>El riesgo sist&#233;mico de esta historia es que el Estado confunda a este perfil con la poblaci&#243;n entera y dise&#241;e todo su portafolio de servicios empresariales solo para el 2% m&#225;s fotog&#233;nico</strong>, que entre otras cosas es el que menos ayuda necesita, porque ya tiene <em>network</em>.</p><p><strong>6. Carlos Alberto, administrador de empresas | El Contratista.</strong> Para m&#237;, estos son los que m&#225;s admiro, porque son unos guerreros, campeones de la vida; se dedican a la construcci&#243;n, los oficios de reparaci&#243;n, la carga y la log&#237;stica. Es el <em>man</em> de la fila, s&#237;, <strong>el de las botas reventadas y los catorce empleados fijos. Jam&#225;s aparece cuando alguien dice &#8220;emprendedor&#8221;</strong>, porque no usa <em>hoodie</em>, no dice &#8220;escalar&#8221;, no habla de &#8220;Elon&#8221; ni de &#8220;Palantir&#8221;, no tiene p&#225;gina web; este <em>man</em> tiene <em>troka</em> (camioneta). <strong>Un programa serio para &#233;l mover&#237;a m&#225;s plata que diez aceleradoras juntas</strong>, pero no da para las fotos con el ministro.</p><p><strong>7. Steve, de apellido Grajales | La Generaci&#243;n 1.5.</strong> Representan a los <em>nikkeis</em> que tanto ayudaron a recuperar la econom&#237;a japonesa de la posguerra. Son biling&#252;es perfectos, de biculturalidad genuina, con credenciales estadounidenses y apellido colombiano. <strong>Es el &#250;nico perfil que tiene a la vez la legitimidad cultural adentro y la legibilidad institucional afuera. Son los &#250;nicos que pueden construir las instituciones que no existen</strong>, y al parecer nadie, jam&#225;s, en cuarenta a&#241;os, les ha preguntado nada.</p><p><strong>8. Guillermo, El Que Quiere Volver | Commerciante.</strong> Est&#225;n aqu&#237; hace m&#225;s de veinticinco a&#241;os, le ha ido bien por que vende &#8220;una loca pre&#241;ada&#8221;, pero quieren montar algo en la tierr&#237;ta y <strong>se cagan del susto a la hora de invertir</strong>, porque hay cientos de historias de descalabros rondando entre la comunidad. Lo peor es que <strong>no encuentran ninguna ventanilla que los reciba como inversionistas, porque en el papel no son extranjeros: son colombianos.</strong> Uno termina acostumbr&#225;ndose a que en USA las cosas son m&#225;s f&#225;ciles: <strong>es un pa&#237;s hecho para inversionistas, donde las regulaciones no est&#225;n hechas por joder, sino para proteger a los inversores.</strong> Sin embargo, cuando quieres invertir en Colombia el juego se invierte: <strong>las regulaciones parecen estar hechas para joder al inversionista y no para hacerle la vida m&#225;s f&#225;cil. Eso se llama </strong><em><strong>fricci&#243;n</strong></em><strong>. Colombia tiene un flujo de inversi&#243;n de retorno que no ha contado ni ha facilitado, no porque sea dif&#237;cil, sino porque no cabe en tantos formularios.</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NYgB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36ab957e-16a8-4f8d-9794-4128cd3f8f53_1456x819.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!NYgB!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F36ab957e-16a8-4f8d-9794-4128cd3f8f53_1456x819.webp 424w, 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Dicho esto, crucemos las dos l&#237;neas de incertidumbre que est&#225;n moviendo la aguja, sobre todo despu&#233;s del terrible terremoto en Colombia: <strong>qu&#233; tan restrictivo se va a seguir poniendo Estados Unidos y qu&#233; tan estable se pondr&#225; Colombia con el nuevo gobierno.</strong></p><p><strong>1 | El Puente</strong> (EE. UU. restrictivo + Colombia estable). Migrar cada vez es m&#225;s caro, mientras que tener presencia comercial no. En este escenario <strong>gana el Operador Binacional</strong>, y la estrategia nacional deber&#237;a pasar de &#8220;acompa&#241;ar al que se va&#8221; a <strong>&#8220;conectar al que se qued&#243; con el que ya est&#225; aqu&#237;&#8221;. Es el m&#225;s probable de los cuatro escenarios que presento hoy, y para el que menos preparados estamos.</strong></p><p><em>Se&#241;al:</em> empresas registradas en Florida con capital colombiano y sin n&#243;mina local.</p><p><strong>2 | El Refugio</strong> (EE. UU. abierto + Colombia inestable). Otra ola de capital y talento saliendo. Se repite la historia, con otro acento: el guion cubano de los sesenta. Aqu&#237; una iron&#237;a cruel: <strong>por fin, empujadas por el miedo, nacer&#237;an las instituciones de enclave que la confianza nunca logr&#243; construir.</strong> Yo creo que este es un escenario poco probable ante la llegada del nuevo gobierno.</p><p><em>Se&#241;al:</em> aumento de la demanda de vivienda en Weston, Doral y Kendall. <strong>El ladrillo siempre avisa antes que las encuestas.</strong></p><p><strong>3 | El Cuello de Botella</strong> (EE. UU. restrictivo + Colombia inestable). La precariedad se pone igual por los dos lados: crece la informalidad, se contraen las remesas, y <strong>los perfiles de Cuidado y Contratista absorben todo el golpe. M&#225;xima necesidad, m&#237;nima capacidad de respuesta</strong>, y por eso hay que prepararlo: <strong>la resiliencia se construye en los a&#241;os buenos.</strong></p><p><em>Se&#241;al:</em> remesas creciendo por debajo de la inflaci&#243;n estadounidense tres meses seguidos.</p><p><strong>4 | La Di&#225;spora Dispersa</strong> (EE. UU. abierto + Colombia estable). Nos regamos hacia Texas, Georgia, las Carolinas y Tennessee buscando <strong>vivienda que se pueda pagar</strong>, y &#8220;la Florida colombiana&#8221; se disuelve como concepto operativo. Para nadie es un secreto que la Florida viene presentando un movimiento gigante de gentrificaci&#243;n, sobre todo en el sur y el centro del estado. <strong>Es el escenario donde uno llega tarde por haber dise&#241;ado para una geograf&#237;a que se estaba vaciando mientras dibujaba el plano.</strong></p><p><em>Se&#241;al:</em> migraci&#243;n interna colombiana hacia estados m&#225;s baratos.</p><p><strong>El comod&#237;n que me quita el sue&#241;o.</strong> Los agentes de inteligencia artificial se comen el arbitraje del <em>back office</em> biling&#252;e. Nuestra ventaja en el <em>nearshoring</em> es &#8220;costo bajo + huso horario compatible + ingl&#233;s funcional&#8221;, y <strong>esas tres cosas juntas son literalmente la primera descripci&#243;n de puesto que un agente de IA reemplaza. No la d&#233;cima: la primera. El Operador Binacional se salva solo si opera los agentes en vez de competirles.</strong></p><h4><em><strong>Backcasting</strong></em><strong> | La Vista desde 2036</strong></h4><p>La pregunta de muchos de ustedes, los que llegaron hasta aqu&#237; leyendo o escuchando este texto, es: &#8220;&#191;qu&#233; va a pasar?&#8221;. La del arquitecto es la &#250;nica que sirve: <strong>si en 2036 el Departamento 33 fuera una realidad institucional reconocida, &#191;qu&#233; tuvo que pasar en el camino?</strong></p><p><strong>2036.</strong> Existe un registro nacional de empresas de propiedad colombiana en el exterior, con Florida como cap&#237;tulo m&#225;s grande, y Colombia coloca su tercera emisi&#243;n de bonos de di&#225;spora, sobresuscrita. <strong>Los consulados dejaron de medirse por tr&#225;mites procesados y empezaron a medirse por empresas sobrevivientes.</strong></p><p><strong>2033.</strong> El mercado de la nostalgia est&#225; formalizado: las pymes agroindustriales descubren que ten&#237;an, del otro lado, <strong>un mill&#243;n y medio de clientes que ya conoc&#237;an sus marcas.</strong></p><p><strong>2032.</strong> Miles de empresas colombianas facturan en d&#243;lares con operaci&#243;n en Colombia y contratos en la Florida. <strong>El Estado sabe qui&#233;nes son, porque los registr&#243;.</strong></p><p><strong>2029.</strong> El primer consulado piloto abre una ventanilla de negocios de verdad, con una m&#233;trica in&#233;dita en la diplomacia colombiana: <strong>supervivencia empresarial a treinta y seis meses.</strong> Sin fricci&#243;n innecesaria, sin tr&#225;mites burocr&#225;ticos, sin <em>BS</em> (<em>bullshit</em>): funciona, y <strong>los dem&#225;s consulados la copian por envidia sana entre funcionarios.</strong></p><p><strong>2027.</strong> Se publica el primer censo empresarial de la di&#225;spora colombiana en Florida: imperfecto, incompleto, pol&#237;ticamente inc&#243;modo. <strong>Cambia la conversaci&#243;n para siempre</strong>, porque desde ese d&#237;a nadie puede volver a decir la frase que ha bloqueado este tema durante cuarenta a&#241;os: <em>&#8220;es que no hay datos&#8221;.</em></p><p><strong>2026.</strong> Es decir, hoy. Colombia estren&#243; gobierno el 7 de agosto, y en estas semanas se est&#225;n nombrando embajadores, c&#243;nsules y agregados comerciales; se est&#225;n armando los equipos que llegar&#225;n a Miami, a Orlando, a Nueva York, a Madrid. Gente nueva (gracias a Dios): se fueron los progres y dejaron sus escritorios vac&#237;os, aunque la verdad es que cuando estuvieron no hicieron la diferencia. Y con ellos llega <strong>esa energ&#237;a rar&#237;sima y perecedera de los primeros noventa d&#237;as</strong>, cuando uno todav&#237;a no ha aprendido a decir la frase m&#225;s mortal de la administraci&#243;n p&#250;blica: <em>&#8220;es que as&#237; funciona esto&#8221;.</em></p><p><strong>Esa ventana de noventa d&#237;as es el eslab&#243;n cr&#237;tico de toda la cadena.</strong> Todo lo dem&#225;s ya est&#225; puesto: la plata, la gente, los tratados firmados hace un siglo, la demanda que existe y crece. Falta la pieza m&#225;s barata y m&#225;s escasa: <strong>alguien que llegue a un escritorio y decida que su trabajo no es sellar papeles, sino contar a los suyos.</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EhnJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0d8bcc8-4ea9-4615-b103-82fbe3359095_1810x869.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EhnJ!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ff0d8bcc8-4ea9-4615-b103-82fbe3359095_1810x869.png 424w, 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Lo &#250;nico que falta es leerlo sin orgullo.</strong></p><p><strong>M&#233;xico</strong> cre&#243; el <em>Instituto de los Mexicanos en el Exterior</em> y mont&#243; en su red consular un sistema de <em>ventanillas</em> para temas como salud, educaci&#243;n, educaci&#243;n financiera y emprendimiento, con presupuesto y m&#233;tricas. <strong>Los consulados dejaron de ser sitios de tr&#225;mites y notar&#237;as para pasar a ser puntos de servicio.</strong> No construyeron edificios nuevos, <strong>usaron los activos que ya ten&#237;an: las mismas filas que ya hac&#237;an cola en su puerta, pero con una capa de servicios distinta.</strong></p><p><strong>Israel</strong> emite bonos de di&#225;spora desde 1951 y ha recaudado <strong>m&#225;s de US$46.000 millones</strong>. En algunos a&#241;os fueron m&#225;s de la cuarta parte de toda su deuda externa emitida. Por favor, f&#237;jense en el verbo: <strong>Israel no le pidi&#243; plata a su di&#225;spora, le vendi&#243; un instrumento financiero. Nadie construy&#243; nunca una relaci&#243;n duradera pidiendo favores; las relaciones de largo plazo se construyen ofreciendo tratos donde todo el mundo gana.</strong></p><p><strong>India</strong> lo hizo tres veces: US$1.600 millones en 1991, US$4.200 millones en 1998 y m&#225;s de US$5.500 millones en 2000, <strong>esta &#250;ltima recogida en los primeros dos meses.</strong> En 2003 los indios no residentes ten&#237;an cerca del <strong>60% de la deuda soberana con acreedores privados: la di&#225;spora se volvi&#243; el principal financiador del pa&#237;s.</strong></p><p><strong>Irlanda</strong> tiene una Estrategia de Di&#225;spora formal y p&#250;blica, con horizonte entre 2026 y 2030 y m&#225;s de veinte compromisos concretos. Adem&#225;s, <strong>le puso n&#250;mero al afecto: 51% quisiera pasaporte irland&#233;s, pero 83% no tiene ni ciudadan&#237;a ni pasaporte.</strong> Los irlandeses leyeron eso como lo que es: <strong>una falla de pol&#237;tica p&#250;blica, no una falta de amor.</strong></p><p>Cuatro pa&#237;ses distintos, con ideolog&#237;as y niveles de desarrollo distintos. <strong>Ninguno le habl&#243; a su di&#225;spora en el idioma de la l&#225;stima y del victimismo, sino en el del inter&#233;s mutuo</strong>, el &#250;nico que un empresario entiende sin traductores. <strong>La diferencia con nosotros no es de falta de recursos ni de presupuesto: es de sustantivo. Mientras ellos describieron a su gente como &#8220;socios&#8221;, nosotros escribimos &#8220;connacional en situaci&#243;n de&#8221;&#8230;</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cxXg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f8ec339-c932-4d25-be80-4dc1ccf79c81_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!cxXg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8f8ec339-c932-4d25-be80-4dc1ccf79c81_1672x941.png 424w, 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Va el portafolio en tres niveles, escrito para tres lectores a la vez: <strong>el empresario que ya est&#225; aqu&#237;, el funcionario que acaba de recibir el escritorio con el sello encima, y el que est&#225; en Colombia pensando en dar el salto.</strong></p><p><strong>Nivel 1 | Los Experimentos (este trimestre). Contarnos, esa es toda la tarea.</strong> Para contarnos no hay que esperar presupuesto, ni leyes, ni decretos, ni consultor&#237;as internacionales. <strong>Ya tenemos la fila en cada consulado, todos los d&#237;as.</strong> Solo agr&#233;guenle <strong>tres preguntas voluntarias</strong> al registro consular: <em>&#191;tiene empresa o trabaja por cuenta propia?, &#191;en qu&#233; sector?, &#191;cu&#225;ntas personas emplea?</em></p><p>Costo: el caf&#233; de una reuni&#243;n de coordinaci&#243;n.</p><p>A los seis meses de ese experimento, <strong>Colombia tendr&#237;a el primer mapa empresarial de su di&#225;spora en doscientos a&#241;os de vida republicana.</strong> F&#237;jense en la elegancia: <strong>los datos no hay que salir a buscarlos; est&#225;n haciendo fila afuera de la oficina, y llevan d&#233;cadas haciendo fila.</strong></p><p>Si usted es el empresario y no el funcionario, su experimento no depende de nadie m&#225;s: <strong>reg&#237;strese y ponga su empresa en el registro.</strong> S&#237;, ya s&#233;: &#8220;eso para qu&#233;&#8221;. Para lo mismo que sirve pararse a que lo cuenten en un censo: <strong>lo que no se cuenta, no se presupuesta y, en consecuencia, no existe.</strong> Si est&#225; en Colombia: <strong>busque un colombiano en Florida de su sector y prop&#243;ngale algo concreto, con fecha. Su red de distribuci&#243;n en el mercado m&#225;s grande del mundo lleva veinte a&#241;os esperando que alguien le escriba.</strong></p><p><strong>Nivel 2 | Apuestas Estrat&#233;gicas (2 a 3 a&#241;os).</strong> Tres, y las tres ejecutables con la plata que ya existe. <strong>No se necesita ni un peso nuevo.</strong></p><p><strong>La Ventanilla de Negocios.</strong> Copiarle descaradamente a M&#233;xico: dentro del consulado, un punto de servicio empresarial. Subrayen esto: <strong>no es un evento, no es una feria, no es un foro con </strong><em><strong>coffee break</strong></em><strong>.</strong> No s&#233; por qu&#233; se empecinan en hacer eventos est&#233;riles. <strong>Es una persona de carne y hueso, un humano real, con nombre y apellidos, con l&#237;nea de WhatsApp</strong>, que es el sistema operativo de la gente hoy y no la p&#225;gina web que nadie abre; alguien que acompa&#241;e al empresario las veinticuatro horas del d&#237;a.</p><p><strong>Una sola m&#233;trica a perseguir: la supervivencia de las empresas a treinta y seis meses.</strong> Sin asistentes, sin <em>likes</em>, sin prensa: <strong>empresas vivas.</strong> Porque <strong>aqu&#237; lo escaso no es la informaci&#243;n, es la confianza. Lo que no existe en el mercado es un tercero que no le est&#233; vendiendo nada al empresario</strong>, y es el &#250;nico rol que un consulado puede ocupar sin competirle a nadie.</p><p><strong>La Homologaci&#243;n.</strong> Una ruta clara, barata y p&#250;blica para que el Profesional Reconvertido deje de ser un ingeniero manejando Uber con un doctorado en el ba&#250;l. Trae un beneficio que a los ministros de hacienda les encanta: <strong>cada profesional homologado sube de tramo de ingreso, y sube con &#233;l la remesa que manda a la casa.</strong></p><p><strong>El Directorio Binacional Verificado.</strong> Registro p&#250;blico de empresas colombianas a ambos lados del wifi, con validaci&#243;n de existencia legal, a&#241;os de operaci&#243;n y referencias comprobables. <strong>Resuelve por estructura el problema que la cultura no resuelve:</strong> si no nos fiamos del paisano desconocido, <strong>montemos la infraestructura que hace innecesario confiar. La confianza que la cultura no da, la da la verificaci&#243;n</strong>, y es lo que hicieron eBay, Airbnb, Uber y, por supuesto, el <em>blockchain</em>.</p><p><strong>Nivel 3 | Moonshots (10 a&#241;os).</strong> Lo dejo por escrito, con fecha, para que quede la constancia: <strong>que Colombia reconozca formalmente a su di&#225;spora como una unidad econ&#243;mica y no como una poblaci&#243;n asistida.</strong> Con instituci&#243;n, presupuesto, jefe que responda, e instrumentos de verdad: <strong>bonos de di&#225;spora</strong>, como Israel y como India; <strong>veh&#237;culos de coinversi&#243;n</strong> para que el que hizo plata afuera pueda meterla en Colombia sin sentir que entra por la puerta de atr&#225;s; <strong>seguros y garant&#237;as</strong> para el operador binacional; y <strong>una estrategia de di&#225;spora escrita, publicada y con metas</strong>, como la irlandesa, para que no dependa del &#225;nimo del funcionario de turno. <strong>No hay que inventar nada: hay que copiar bien, que es la forma m&#225;s rentable de innovar y la que menos ego requiere.</strong></p><p>Una &#250;ltima, para el empresario que ya est&#225; aqu&#237;: <strong>su </strong><em><strong>moonshot</strong></em><strong> personal es dejar de ser cinco mil negocios que no se conocen y volverse una red.</strong> Ning&#250;n c&#243;nsul puede obligar a dos colombianos a confiar el uno en el otro. <strong>Eso no se decreta: eso se hace de a un almuerzo a la vez.</strong> Dando papaya estrat&#233;gicamente (para mis lectores no colombianos: <em>dar papaya</em> es exponerse innecesariamente al peligro y s&#237;, en Colombia una fruta tropical es doctrina de seguridad nacional), que es exactamente lo contrario de lo que nos ense&#241;aron desde ni&#241;os.</p><p>Ya hay algunos ensayos de estas redes funcionando, algunos muy buenos en forma de iniciativas de <em>networking</em> y otros no tanto. Mi &#250;nica cr&#237;tica es que <strong>cuando las cosas son casi gratis, significa que el producto soy yo</strong>, y cuando yo siento que soy el producto, entonces ya no me gusta, porque me siento comercializado. <strong>Si tu producto de </strong><em><strong>networking</strong></em><strong> solo beneficia al due&#241;o de la iniciativa, entonces algo est&#225; mal.</strong></p><p><strong>Aqu&#237; es donde quiero dejarlos, no con una queja sino con un inventario.</strong> Nada de lo que acaban de leer describe una herida: describe <strong>un activo sin registrar.</strong> Cinco millones de personas, US$13.098 millones al a&#241;o, catorce empleos en la empresa del se&#241;or de las botas, la agenda de clientas de Do&#241;a Gloria, el <em>front office</em> de Rodrigo en Miami y su equipo en Medell&#237;n. <strong>Eso no es una comunidad esperando ayuda: es una econom&#237;a esperando ser contada.</strong> Lo mejor de todo, lo que me tiene escribiendo esto despu&#233;s de un terremoto, es que <strong>la parte m&#225;s dif&#237;cil ya est&#225; hecha.</strong> Nadie tuvo que inventar el capital, ni el talento, ni la disciplina, ni el mercado. Ya est&#225;n, lo &#250;nico que falta es lo m&#225;s barato del mundo: <strong>la decisi&#243;n de mirar.</strong></p><p><strong>Entonces no cerremos esta </strong><em><strong>Toma</strong></em><strong> como se cierran los art&#237;culos en los peri&#243;dicos que nadie lee, cerr&#233;mosla como se cierra un trato.</strong> Si usted es de los que se fueron: cu&#233;ntese esta semana, y pres&#233;ntele su negocio a un colombiano que no conozca, uno solo, con nombre y fecha en el calendario. Si usted se qued&#243; en Colombia: deje de mirarnos como &#8220;los que se fueron, los emprendedores llorones&#8221; y empiece a mirarnos como su fuerza de ventas en el mercado m&#225;s grande del planeta, h&#225;gale escr&#237;bale a uno hoy a uno. <strong>Si a usted le acaban de entregar un escritorio con un sello encima, h&#225;gase el favor m&#225;s grande de su carrera: salga de la oficina y p&#225;rese en la fila.</strong> No a atender, a mirar. Le juro que en una sola ma&#241;ana aprende lo que no sale en ning&#250;n informe de gesti&#243;n, y le sale m&#225;s barato que cualquier consultor&#237;a.</p><p>Porque al final esto no lo va a resolver un decreto, lo van a resolver personas concretas haciendo cosas concretas. <strong>La lealtad de una di&#225;spora no se hereda, se renueva o se pierde</strong>, y nosotros estamos justo en el a&#241;o en que todav&#237;a se puede renovar. <strong>Yo pongo mi parte: los datos, el mapa, la lista y esta terquedad de escribirla.</strong> Falta la tuya, que es m&#225;s simple y m&#225;s dif&#237;cil a la vez: <strong>aparecer, contarse, presentarse, confiar una vez m&#225;s de lo que le aconseja la prudencia.</strong> Cuando lo haga, escr&#237;bame y cu&#233;ntemelo, porque <strong>las mejores historias de esta casa siempre las trajeron los lectores, no el autor.</strong></p><h3><strong>Los que saltan hacia atr&#225;s al principio se ven ingenuos, hasta que se vuelven campeones ol&#237;mpicos</strong> (Dick Fosbury).</h3><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png 848w, 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Hace algunos a&#241;os estuve viajando por Rusia, uno de mis pa&#237;ses favoritos, no por su condici&#243;n pol&#237;tica, sino por su cultura e historia. Mosc&#250; es una de las ciudades m&#225;s fascinantes del mundo, donde se contrasta la elegancia y herencia cultural de los zares, con la opulencia y a veces brutalismo arquitect&#243;nico de la Rusia sovi&#233;tica. Cuando caminas por las calles de Mosc&#250;, uno cree que est&#225; al interior de los palacios de las princesas de Disney, y en algunos de sus rincones, sientes que el mismo Stalin te est&#225; mirando por el rabillo del ojo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Un detalle no menor es que las rusas son, todas ellas, fieles representantes de la princesa Elsa. Rusia es el lugar del mundo con la mayor concentraci&#243;n de mujeres lindas por cent&#237;metro cuadrado.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>El tr&#225;fico a&#233;reo a la ciudad de Mosc&#250; gira en torno a tres aeropuertos: Sherem&#233;tievo, Domod&#233;dovo y Vn&#250;kovo. Si por casualidad en alguna oportunidad pasas por alguno de ellos, te voy a pedir el favor de que no pierdas la oportunidad de almorzar como astronauta, ya que todos los viajeros en Rusia tienen la oportunidad de sentirse cosmonautas en sus aeropuertos, aunque sea por unos pocos minutos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ahora bien, si hoy te pido que pienses durante unos minutos c&#243;mo crees que almuerzan los astronautas, &#191;qu&#233; es lo primero que se te viene a la mente? Cuando hice el ejercicio, lo primero que se me ocurri&#243; fue p&#237;ldoras de vitaminas, tal vez influenciado por las primeras pel&#237;culas de ciencia ficci&#243;n que vi en mi infancia. Luego record&#233; que por all&#225; en los a&#241;os 90&#8217;s, conoc&#237; las raciones militares al embarcarme en un remolcador oce&#225;nico, en el que trabaj&#233; como marinero durante casi dos a&#241;os. En dicha embarcaci&#243;n hac&#237;an pasant&#237;as miembros de la infanter&#237;a de marina de Colombia, quienes en ocasiones llegaban a bordo dotados con raciones militares de comida. Pens&#233; que si los soldados consumen comida deshidratada lo m&#225;s seguro es que los astronautas tambi&#233;n.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Volvamos a Rusia, estoy casi que cien por ciento seguro de que muchos de ustedes estar&#225;n pensando que en los aeropuertos que he nombrado existe alg&#250;n tipo de comedores tem&#225;ticos a manera de Planet Hollywood, Hard Rock o Rainforest Caf&#233;. Sin embargo, estoy seguro de que la verdad los va a sorprender&#8230;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Esta historia comienza al llegar a la sala de espera en el aeropuerto de Domod&#233;dovo. Despu&#233;s de pasar por el control de documentos, entr&#233; a una amplia y moderna sala de espera donde me sent&#233; para esperar pacientemente a que me llamasen para abordar el vuelo que me llevar&#237;a de Mosc&#250; a Miami (un vuelo a trav&#233;s del polo norte). Dicho vuelo tendr&#237;a un tiempo aproximado de doce horas y media m&#225;s o menos, desde el decolaje, hasta su aterrizaje en la capital del sol.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Infelizmente en esta ocasi&#243;n, mi vuelo de regreso a casa estaba retrasado cuatro horas gracias a una tormenta de nieve y hielo que estaba azotando los cielos cercanos a la capital rusa. As&#237; es que no me quedaba alternativa distinta a llenarme de paciencia, relajarme y disfrutar del paisaje.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Al frente de la fila de sillas en mi sala de espera estaban dispuestas las tradicionales m&#225;quinas expendedoras de comidas y snacks (las famosas </span><em><span>vending machines</span></em><span>)&#8230; s&#237;, las mismas que frecuentemente pasan desapercibidas, especialmente si no eres un consumidor asiduo de refrescos, como es mi caso. En medio de la modorra que me producen las salas de espera, una de estas </span><em><span>vending machines</span></em><span> comenz&#243; a despertar mi inter&#233;s antropol&#243;gico, pues ve&#237;a c&#243;mo dicha m&#225;quina despertaba particular atenci&#243;n entre los viajeros.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Esta m&#225;quina era distinta a las otras que hab&#237;a en el lugar. A diferencia de las que vend&#237;an chocolates, y las tradicionales papas fritas, esta vend&#237;a unos tubos parecidos a los de la crema dental&#8230; s&#237;, as&#237; como lo leen, la gente se deten&#237;a frecuentemente para comprar tubos de dent&#237;frico, y los llamo as&#237; porque eran totalmente blancos, tan solo estaban marcados de forma escueta con nombres en cir&#237;lico, una lengua inveros&#237;mil para m&#237;.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Al principio la m&#225;quina era paisaje para m&#237;, luego el antrop&#243;logo que vive dentro de este cuerpo comenz&#243; a contar personas, luego se detuvo a identificar recurrencias, para despu&#233;s construir arquetipos, todo de forma simult&#225;nea, en minutos. La ocasi&#243;n de consumo se convirti&#243; en una danza, casi que en un ritual de gente comprando &#8220;pasta de dientes&#8221;. Mi curiosidad por tal m&#225;quina creci&#243; de tal manera que comenc&#233; a tomar fotos, mientras me preguntaba: &#191;Qu&#233; ser&#225; lo que la gente est&#225; comprando en dicha m&#225;quina? &#191;Ser&#237;a que toda esta gente dej&#243; la crema de dientes en casa?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>El misterio solo lo pude resolver cuando una chica que estaba &#8220;sentada-acostada&#8221; en una silla cercana, camuflada entre el t&#237;pico atuendo de viajera (</span><em><span>joggers</span></em><span>, chanclas, medias de algod&#243;n por encima de las pantorrillas, chaqueta con capucha para el fr&#237;o, la tradicional almohada &#8220;dona&#8221; para descansar el cuello, aud&#237;fonos, y una mochila donde al parecer llevaba empacada su vida entera), se levant&#243;, y camin&#243; hacia la m&#225;quina para comprar uno de aquellos tubos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>La segu&#237; con la mirada como cuando un perro sigue a su amo antes de que le d&#233; una galleta. Se pos&#243; en la m&#225;quina, pas&#243; su tarjeta de cr&#233;dito por el dat&#225;fono y extrajo un tubo&#8230; Regres&#243; caminando lentamente a su silla, removi&#243; la tapa del tubo y comenz&#243; a apretarlo en su boca, extrayendo el contenido&#8230; No pude contener la curiosidad, entonces dej&#233; atr&#225;s la monta&#241;erada y fui a preguntarle si hablaba ingl&#233;s. Ella con una t&#237;mida sonrisa me dijo que s&#237;, en un ingl&#233;s </span><em><span>arrusado</span></em><span>&#8230;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Seguido, le pregunt&#233; qu&#233; era lo que estaba comiendo y qu&#233; era lo que vend&#237;a esa m&#225;quina.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ella con la mayor naturalidad del mundo me contest&#243;:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#8212; &#161;Es comida para astronautas!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#161;Plop! Me fui de espaldas&#8230; &#161;S&#237;, a lo Condorito!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#191;C&#243;mo as&#237; que comida para astronautas?, le volv&#237; a preguntar, y ella esta vez con la misma naturalidad, como si fuera algo que hiciera todos los d&#237;as, me respondi&#243;:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#8212; Mira, estos tubos contienen una porci&#243;n de comida completa, hay de pato con papas, de pescado con esp&#225;rragos, hasta de carne con vegetales, vienen de muchos sabores.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>En ese momento sent&#237; verg&#252;enza, me sent&#237; un poco fuera de lugar; qu&#233; iba a pensar yo, un monta&#241;ero de Medell&#237;n, que aqu&#237; la gente en los aeropuertos pod&#237;a comprar comida para astronautas (aqu&#237; s&#237; se me not&#243; el musgo).</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Le agradec&#237; por la info y camin&#233; hacia la m&#225;quina (Aqu&#237; les dejo la foto), comenc&#233; a mirar los tubos, pero de nuevo el maldito cir&#237;lico me dej&#243; mudo. Ella not&#243; de inmediato mi curiosidad (monta&#241;erada), o frustraci&#243;n, se levant&#243; de la silla y camin&#243; hacia m&#237;, para preguntarme con una voz dulce:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#8212; &#191;Hablas ruso?&#8230;</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Yo le contest&#233; que no&#8230; entonces ella replic&#243;:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#8212; &#191;Quieres que te ayude a comprar algo en la m&#225;quina?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Yo le respond&#237; que s&#237;, si no le incomodaba ayudarme, y en esta ocasi&#243;n ella se rio asintiendo (ah&#237; me sent&#237; m&#225;s monta&#241;ero). Me ley&#243; cada uno de los productos disponibles en el men&#250;. Termin&#233; eligiendo pato con hierbas y esp&#225;rragos. Recib&#237; mi tubo, le di las gracias a ella por su gentileza y me retir&#233; a mi silla m&#225;s contento que un marrano estrenando lazo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ya sentado en mi lugar, le di vueltas a ese tubo por todos los &#225;ngulos, pas&#233; a destaparlo despacito, como si estuviese desarmando una bomba. Retir&#233; la tapa, romp&#237; el sello que proteg&#237;a la boca del tubo y casi que de inmediato comenz&#243; a salir del mismo una pasta color crema (confieso que al principio me pareci&#243; caca de beb&#233;), la prob&#233; t&#237;midamente, con ese toquecito de lengua t&#237;mido que uno da cuando experimenta algo que parece asqueroso, tanteando la cosa para no vomitar delante de mi nueva amiga, que me estaba viendo. Creo que fui foco de burla de muchos, y que seguramente se preguntaron: &#191;de d&#243;nde ser&#225; este panguano que nunca ha visto un tubo de comida para astronautas?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Prob&#233; el primer trozo de esa pasta, pur&#233;, compota o como quieran llamarlo, lo puse al interior de mi boca y&#8230; eureka, un sabor intenso a hierbas y una textura parecida m&#225;s a un pur&#233; que a una compota llenaron mi cara con una sonrisa. Mientras mi vecina me hac&#237;a una se&#241;al de pulgar arriba (</span><em><span>thumbs up</span></em><span>), en b&#250;squeda de una se&#241;al de aprobaci&#243;n, la cual correspond&#237; de inmediato. El producto era bastante bueno, no me esperaba que estuviera tan rico.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>As&#237; fue mi primera experiencia almorzando como astronauta. Lamento decepcionarlos, pues mi almuerzo de cosmonauta no fue en una nave espacial, ni en &#243;rbita, y mucho menos vestido como Neil Armstrong, pero si quieres saber qu&#233; sigue, contin&#250;a leyendo porque quiero contarte qu&#233; comeremos camino a las estrellas.</span></p><p><strong><span>Houston, Houston, qu&#233; Tenemos en el Men&#250;</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Comencemos por donde siempre arrancamos, desarmando el problema hasta encontrarle el coraz&#243;n. Cuando la gente piensa en la conquista del espacio, lo primero que piensa es en cohetes, motores, trajes presurizados. En Matt Damon sembrando papas con abono de dudosa procedencia (los que vieron </span><em><span>The Martian</span></em><span> saben exactamente de qu&#233; abono hablo, y los que no la han visto, ya les da&#241;&#233; la sorpresa, de nada&#8230;).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Aqu&#237; viene la tesis de esta Toma: </span><strong><span>el verdadero cuello de botella para viajar a las estrellas no es la propulsi&#243;n, es la lonchera.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Pensemos un momento. Al parecer ya sabemos salir del planeta, lo hacemos desde hace m&#225;s de sesenta a&#241;os. Ya sabemos vivir en &#243;rbita, llevamos un cuarto de siglo d&#225;ndole vueltas a la Tierra con la Estaci&#243;n Espacial, es como si fuera un Airbnb con vista al universo. Lo que todav&#237;a no sabemos hacer bien es algo que cualquier abuelita resuelve todos los domingos sin despeinarse: </span><strong><span>alimentar a una familia lejos de la tienda de la esquina.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Esto se los digo con autoridad, porque yo he vivido ese problema en carne propia. Dos a&#241;os de marinero en un remolcador y muchos otros m&#225;s como instructor de buceo, me sirvieron para aprender que en el mar la comida no es un tema log&#237;stico, es EL tema log&#237;stico. </span><strong><span>Un barco es lo m&#225;s parecido que tenemos en la tierra a una nave espacial.</span></strong><span> Cuando el barco zarpa, pr&#225;cticamente todo lo que vamos a comer durante la expedici&#243;n ya est&#225; a bordo, y si al cocinero se le olvida algo, toda la tripulaci&#243;n lo sentir&#225;. Aprend&#237; tambi&#233;n que a bordo se perdona un mal capit&#225;n, pero no un mal cocinero (un mal capit&#225;n puede hundir el barco, pero un mal cocinero hunde la moral de todos tres veces al d&#237;a).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ahora piensen que vamos para Marte y multipliquen ese problema por tres a&#241;os de viaje, qu&#237;tenle la posibilidad de arrimar a alg&#250;n puerto. Un viaje a Marte dura, entre ida, estad&#237;a y regreso, alrededor de tres a&#241;os. Tres a&#241;os sin domicilios, sin Rappi interplanetario, sin la tienda de don Chucho. Cada kilogramo que subimos al espacio cuesta miles de d&#243;lares en combustible, y una tripulaci&#243;n de cuatro personas necesita toneladas de comida para una misi&#243;n marciana. &#191;Entonces c&#243;mo manejar la lista de mercado, y c&#243;mo llevar comida al espacio, sin riesgos de indigesti&#243;n? Porque una tripulaci&#243;n con </span><em><span>churria</span></em><span> camino a Santa Marta tiene soluci&#243;n, pero cuatro astronautas directos, camino a Marte, es un problema de grandes proporciones.</span></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8lNl!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71d5fad5-cc0e-4cc2-9709-6004883f5637_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8lNl!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F71d5fad5-cc0e-4cc2-9709-6004883f5637_1672x941.png 424w, 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Pur&#233; de carne y salsa de chocolate, servidos en tubos de aluminio exactamente iguales a los que yo compr&#233; en Domod&#233;dovo cincuenta a&#241;os despu&#233;s. S&#237; se&#241;ores: </span><strong><span>aquella m&#225;quina expendedora no me vendi&#243; un snack, me vendi&#243; una reliquia tecnol&#243;gica viva</span></strong><span>, el equivalente gastron&#243;mico de encontrar un Ford T nuevo en un concesionario. Los rusos son tan pr&#225;cticos que cuando algo les funciona no lo cambian, lo celebran (y despu&#233;s lo venden en los aeropuertos a turistas curiosos como su servidor).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Del lado gringo, John Glenn demostr&#243; en 1962 que se pod&#237;a tragar y digerir en gravedad cero, exprimi&#233;ndose un tubo de pur&#233; de manzana dentro de su c&#225;psula, con lo cual pas&#243; a la historia como el primer beb&#233; de 40 a&#241;os alimentado con compota orbital. De ah&#237; en adelante, la comida espacial evolucion&#243;, como evoluciona todo en ingenier&#237;a: resolviendo un problema a la vez.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#191;Las migajas de pan flotan y se meten en los circuitos? Se elimina el pan y desde los a&#241;os noventa la NASA adopt&#243; la tortilla, ese invento mexicano milenario que no suelta migas, con lo cual M&#233;xico lleva d&#233;cadas alimentando la exploraci&#243;n espacial sin cobrar regal&#237;as (ah&#237; les dejo esa idea de negocio, paisanos aztecas; a mis lectores colombianos les dejo la espinita: la arepa habr&#237;a hecho el mismo trabajo con m&#225;s dignidad, pero como siempre, llegamos tarde a la licitaci&#243;n). &#191;Los coreanos mandaron a su primera astronauta en 2008? Corea invirti&#243; millones en desarrollar un kimchi espacial, porque mandaron a una coreana al espacio, pero nadie fue capaz de decirle que fuera sin su kimchi. &#191;Los italianos subieron a Samantha Cristoforetti a la Estaci&#243;n Espacial en 2015? Italia dise&#241;&#243; la </span><em><span>ISSpresso</span></em><span>, la primera m&#225;quina de espresso orbital, porque una cosa es pedirle a un italiano que arriesgue la vida por la ciencia y otra muy distinta pedirle que se tome un caf&#233; instant&#225;neo. En eso estamos de acuerdo, eso es un crimen de lesa humanidad.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#191;Ven el patr&#243;n? Esto es lo que me gusta de ser antrop&#243;logo: </span><strong><span>cada cultura que llega al espacio no sube solamente astronautas, sube su identidad empacada en forma de comida. El espacio ser&#225; de quien lleve sus sabores.</span></strong><span> Lo que parece una an&#233;cdota simp&#225;tica, es en realidad la se&#241;al m&#225;s importante de toda esta Toma, pero no se me adelanten, que un sancocho hay que dejarlo hervir a fuego lento para que espese.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Lo que s&#237; quiero adelantarles es un dato puro y duro: hoy el men&#250; de la Estaci&#243;n Espacial Internacional tiene unos doscientos &#237;tems, los astronautas cultivaron y comieron su primera lechuga orbital en 2015, y en 2021 cosecharon aj&#237;es en &#243;rbita y se armaron los primeros tacos espaciales de la historia (con tortilla mexicana, aj&#237; cultivado en microgravedad y carne liofilizada: el primer taco verdaderamente interplanetario, y me atrevo a decir que el m&#225;s caro jam&#225;s preparado).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Hasta aqu&#237; todo muy bonito. La Estaci&#243;n Espacial est&#225; a 400 kil&#243;metros de la Tierra, o sea, a la distancia Bogot&#225;&#8211;Medell&#237;n en l&#237;nea recta. Esto permite que lleguen naves de carga con comida fresca cada pocos meses. Marte, en cambio, queda a 225 millones de kil&#243;metros en su punto medio. Y que yo sepa para all&#225; todav&#237;a no hay domicilios. </span><strong><span>Es exactamente aqu&#237; donde comienza el futuro.</span></strong></p><h4><strong><span>Los Nuevos Cocineros del Cosmos</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Aqu&#237; en FUTOPIX las tesis se defienden con datos o no se defienden. Como ya es costumbre y hasta sobra decirlo: si no hay datos, es ruido. Esta semana que cerramos hoy, la an&#233;cdota de Rusia surgi&#243; en una conversaci&#243;n, mientras tomaba un caf&#233; con un amigo, en un Starbucks cerca de casa al cual cari&#241;osamente llamo &#8220;la oficina&#8221;. Nando y yo est&#225;bamos </span><em><span>botando corriente</span></em><span> acerca de c&#243;mo desarrollar comida que pudiese ser consumida en el espacio. El tema me gust&#243; tanto que promet&#237; a mi amigo escribir sobre el asunto.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>As&#237; que igual que en Domod&#233;dovo, puse a mi antrop&#243;logo a escanear la industria naciente de la comida espacial. Prend&#237; el radar de se&#241;ales d&#233;biles y volv&#237; con el delantal lleno, para contarles que la NASA entendi&#243; hace algunos a&#241;os que el problema de la comida espacial no lo iba a resolver sola, por lo que abri&#243; el juego lanzando el </span><em><span>Deep Space Food Challenge</span></em><span>, un concurso global para dise&#241;ar los sistemas de alimentaci&#243;n de las misiones de larga duraci&#243;n. A este llamado respondieron m&#225;s de trescientos equipos de treinta y dos pa&#237;ses. Lo que sali&#243; de ah&#237; es un tablero de se&#241;ales que quita el hambre y abre el apetito al mismo tiempo. Vamos a analizarlo se&#241;al por se&#241;al.</span></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 1: La Imprenta Gastron&#243;mica Tiene Acento Paisa</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Empiezo por la que me llena de orgullo el coraz&#243;n (y ustedes ya saben que yo de neutralidad period&#237;stica no vivo; cuando me enter&#233; de esta noticia casi me atoro con el tinto). Entre los ganadores de premios del reto de la NASA apareci&#243; una empresa de La Estrella, Antioquia, llamada ALSEC. Una compa&#241;&#237;a de tecnolog&#237;a de alimentos con quince a&#241;os de trayectoria que lleg&#243; al concurso con una propuesta que suena a ciencia ficci&#243;n con saz&#243;n de fonda: </span><strong><span>imprimir comida en 3D usando inteligencia artificial para mapear las propiedades moleculares de la biodiversidad colombiana.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>L&#233;anlo otra vez, despacio. Una empresa paisa us&#243; IA para preguntarle a la biodiversidad m&#225;s concentrada del planeta: &#191;cu&#225;les de tus mol&#233;culas sirven para nutrir a un ser humano en gravedad cero? Con esas respuestas dise&#241;&#243; cartuchos que, en lugar de tinta, contienen alimento: la impresora arma el plato capa por capa, sin cocinar, sin desperdicio, con la nutrici&#243;n calculada al miligramo. Tortas, carnes, lo que pida el men&#250;. La bandeja paisa por cartuchos todav&#237;a no est&#225; en el cat&#225;logo, pero denles tiempo, que uno no puede pedir frijoles molecularmente perfectos de la noche a la ma&#241;ana.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ojo al timing, que esta se&#241;al est&#225; m&#225;s viva que nunca: este mismo a&#241;o la NASA lanz&#243; la secuela del concurso, bautizada </span><em><span>Mars to Table</span></em><span>, con premios de hasta 750.000 d&#243;lares para quien resuelva c&#243;mo alimentar astronautas en Marte sin reabastecimiento desde la Tierra. La ventana est&#225; abierta otra vez, y esta vez el continente ya sabe que puede competir. </span><strong><span>La primera vez fue haza&#241;a; la segunda tiene que ser estrategia.</span></strong></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 2: La Granja que Cabe en una Nave</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>El gran premio del reto se lo llev&#243; Interstellar Lab con un sistema llamado </span><em><span>NUCLEUS</span></em><span>: nueve m&#243;dulos interconectados donde crecen microvegetales, hortalizas, hongos e insectos, automatizado en un 90%. En cristiano: </span><strong><span>una vereda completa comprimida al tama&#241;o de un electrodom&#233;stico</span></strong><span>, con cultivos, &#8220;ganader&#237;a&#8221; de insectos y todo, funcionando pr&#225;cticamente sola. S&#233; que a m&#225;s de uno le arrug&#243; la nariz lo de los insectos, pero les recuerdo que media humanidad los come desde siempre, que son la prote&#237;na m&#225;s eficiente y abundante que existe, y que en un viaje de tres a&#241;os a Marte nadie va a estar en posici&#243;n de ponerse exquisito (adem&#225;s, d&#237;ganme ustedes si el chicharr&#243;n no es, filos&#243;ficamente hablando, un insecto grande y feliz).</span></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 3: Comida Hecha de Aire (Agua Molida, y Viento Raspao)</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>La ganadora internacional del reto fue la finlandesa Solar Foods, y su propuesta es de las que a uno le reorganizan los muebles mentales: una prote&#237;na llamada </span><em><span>Solein</span></em><span> que se produce con microbios, electricidad y CO2. Sin tierra, sin cultivos, sin vacas, sin fotos&#237;ntesis. </span><strong><span>Literalmente: comida hecha de aire y electricidad.</span></strong><span> Cuando lo le&#237; por primera vez volv&#237; a hacer &#161;plop!, por segunda vez en esta Toma, y eso que a m&#237; ya me hab&#237;an vendido pato en tubo. En una nave espacial, donde el CO2 es lo &#250;nico que sobra (los astronautas lo exhalan gratis todo el d&#237;a) y la energ&#237;a solar es abundante, esto convierte el problema en la soluci&#243;n: </span><strong><span>tu propio aliento de ayer se vuelve tu prote&#237;na de ma&#241;ana.</span></strong><span> Es la econom&#237;a circular llevada a un nivel que har&#237;a llorar de la emoci&#243;n a Buckminster Fuller, el abuelo de todos los que pensamos en sistemas cerrados.</span></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 4: El Primer Chulet&#243;n Orbital ya Existi&#243;</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#191;Y la carne carne, la de verdad? Tambi&#233;n ya cruz&#243; la frontera del cielo. En 2019, la empresa israel&#237; Aleph Farms bioimprimi&#243; el primer pedazo de carne cultivada en la Estaci&#243;n Espacial Internacional: c&#233;lulas de res, cultivadas y ensambladas en microgravedad, sin vaca de por medio. Un experimento peque&#241;o, del tama&#241;o de un bocado, pero con un mensaje del tama&#241;o de un planeta: </span><strong><span>la prote&#237;na animal del espacio no va a subir en cohete, se va a cultivar a bordo.</span></strong><span> Las vacas pueden respirar tranquilas: nadie las va a mandar a Marte (aunque confieso que la imagen de una vaca flotando en gravedad cero me ha hecho re&#237;r m&#225;s de lo que estoy dispuesto a admitir en un documento p&#250;blico).</span></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 5: El Espacio ya Tiene Terroir</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Esta es mi se&#241;al favorita, y es la m&#225;s peque&#241;a de todas: un balde de miso. En 2020, un equipo de investigadores mand&#243; a fermentar miso, la pasta de soya japonesa, a la Estaci&#243;n Espacial. Treinta d&#237;as despu&#233;s volvi&#243; a la Tierra y el resultado, publicado en 2025, es una joya: el miso espacial ferment&#243; bien, pero desarroll&#243; un sabor distinto, m&#225;s tostado, m&#225;s a nuez, que sus hermanos gemelos fermentados en Boston y en Copenhague. Los microbios trabajaron diferente all&#225; arriba.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#191;Entienden lo que eso significa? *</span><em><span>El espacio ya tiene </span></em><span>terroir</span><em><span>.</span></em><span>* As&#237; como un vino de Mendoza no sabe igual que uno de Burdeos, la &#243;rbita terrestre ya produce sabores que no existen en ning&#250;n lugar de la Tierra. Dentro de unas d&#233;cadas habr&#225; quesos madurados en la Luna y salsas fermentadas en Marte, y alg&#250;n sommelier insoportable dir&#225; &#8220;este miso tiene notas minerales del cr&#225;ter Jezero, cosecha 2044&#8221; y lo peor de todo es que tendr&#225; raz&#243;n.</span></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong><span>Lo Infaltable, las Se&#241;ales Inc&#243;modas</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ahora el baldao de agua fr&#237;a de rigor, porque ustedes no me leen para que les sobe la espalda. El enemigo n&#250;mero uno de la alimentaci&#243;n espacial no es la t&#233;cnica, es algo mucho m&#225;s terrenal: el aburrimiento. Los nutricionistas lo llaman </span><em><span>fatiga del men&#250;</span></em><span>, despu&#233;s de meses comiendo lo mismo, los astronautas simplemente empiezan a comer menos. Pierden peso, pierden masa muscular, pierden &#225;nimo, en el &#250;nico trabajo del mundo donde perder el apetito puede comprometer una misi&#243;n de miles de millones de d&#243;lares. </span><strong><span>La comida en el espacio no es solo combustible: es el evento social del d&#237;a, el pedazo de Tierra que te queda, la diferencia entre una tripulaci&#243;n y una lata de gente triste.</span></strong><span> Gu&#225;rdenme ese dato, que sobre &#233;l se construye la secci&#243;n que viene.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9i6A!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F37debcee-fcdf-48d8-b2fe-821fe0039cce_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h4><strong><span>Antropolog&#237;a de la Bandeja Paisa Orbital</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Perd&#243;nenme si en esta parte me pongo un poco denso, pero aqu&#237; est&#225; el coraz&#243;n del asunto, y ustedes saben que en FUTOPIX no le sacamos el cuerpo a las preguntas dif&#237;ciles. La pregunta dif&#237;cil es esta: &#191;por qu&#233; fracas&#243; la comida en p&#237;ldoras?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>La ciencia ficci&#243;n de los a&#241;os cincuenta nos prometi&#243; que para esta &#233;poca estar&#237;amos almorzando una pastillita y listo (la misma que me imagin&#233; yo de ni&#241;o, antes de que las raciones militares del remolcador me bajaran de esa nube). T&#233;cnicamente, comprimir nutrientes es trivial. Cualquier multivitam&#237;nico de farmacia es media promesa cumplida. Sin embargo, ning&#250;n programa espacial serio alimenta a su gente con p&#237;ldoras. &#191;Por qu&#233;? Porque los ingenieros descubrieron, a las malas, lo que cualquier antrop&#243;logo les habr&#237;a dicho gratis con un tinto en la mano: </span><strong><span>los seres humanos no nos alimentamos, los seres humanos comemos. Comer es un acto cultural antes que metab&#243;lico.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Lo he visto en m&#225;s de veinte a&#241;os de trabajo de campo por toda Am&#233;rica Latina, escrib&#237; un libro acerca del tema que se llama </span><em><span>Alimento para el Alma</span></em><span>. Uno puede cambiar la lengua, la moneda y hasta la religi&#243;n, pero mu&#233;strenme c&#243;mo come una comunidad y les digo qui&#233;nes son, qu&#233; temen y qu&#233; sue&#241;an. En el remolcador oce&#225;nico lo comprob&#233; a diario: &#233;ramos un pu&#241;ado de desconocidos encerrados en una lata de acero en la mitad del oc&#233;ano, y lo &#250;nico que nos convert&#237;a en tripulaci&#243;n, en familia postiza, era la mesa. El d&#237;a que hab&#237;a sancocho a bordo, hasta el motor sonaba m&#225;s contento.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>El </span><em><span>Homo sapiens</span></em><span> es la &#250;nica especie que cocina, y no es un detalle menor: hay antrop&#243;logos que sostienen que fue la cocina, el fuego compartido, lo que nos hizo humanos. Alrededor de la olla se invent&#243; la conversaci&#243;n, la familia, el chisme (que es la forma m&#225;s antigua de red social) y probablemente la pol&#237;tica. </span><strong><span>Quitarle la comida a un humano y darle nutrientes es como quitarle la m&#250;sica y darle frecuencias: bioqu&#237;micamente equivalente, humanamente devastador.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Por eso el kimchi coreano, el espresso italiano y la tortilla mexicana no son caprichos en la historia que les cont&#233; arriba: son la evidencia de que </span><strong><span>nadie viaja a las estrellas sin llevarse a su abuela en el paladar.</span></strong><span> La memoria gustativa es de las m&#225;s profundas que tenemos; un olor a guiso puede transportarte cuarenta a&#241;os en el tiempo con m&#225;s precisi&#243;n que cualquier m&#225;quina que haya so&#241;ado H.G. Wells. Un astronauta a doscientos millones de kil&#243;metros de casa no necesita 2.800 calor&#237;as: necesita que algo, aunque sea una vez por semana, le sepa a hogar.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>El giro que me hace sonre&#237;r de medio lado, porque los futuristas tambi&#233;n tenemos ego regional. &#191;Saben qui&#233;n resolvi&#243; hace siglos el problema t&#233;cnico central de la comida espacial, que es conservar alimento nutritivo por a&#241;os sin refrigeraci&#243;n? &#161;Los Andes! El </span><em><span>chu&#241;o</span></em><span>, esa papa liofilizada que los pueblos andinos producen desde hace m&#225;s de mil a&#241;os exponi&#233;ndola al hielo de la noche y al sol del d&#237;a en el altiplano, es exactamente la misma tecnolog&#237;a, ojo, la misma f&#237;sica: congelar y sublimar el agua, que la NASA &#8220;invent&#243;&#8221; en los a&#241;os sesenta para las misiones Apolo. La liofilizaci&#243;n no naci&#243; en Houston, naci&#243; en el altiplano andino, a cuatro mil metros de altura, donde la madrugada hace de congelador industrial y el mediod&#237;a de c&#225;mara de vac&#237;o. </span><strong><span>La comida de los astronautas es, tecnol&#243;gicamente hablando, nieta de la despensa incaica.</span></strong><span> As&#237; que la pr&#243;xima vez que alguien les diga que Am&#233;rica Latina llega tarde a la carrera espacial, recu&#233;rdenle que llegamos quinientos a&#241;os antes, por lo menos en la cocina.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Esa es la verdadera ventaja competitiva de la regi&#243;n en esta historia, y no me canso de repetirla: la biodiversidad. La empresa paisa del tablero de se&#241;ales no gan&#243; por tener mejores impresoras que los gringos; gan&#243; porque tiene mejor materia prima para preguntarle a la IA: </span><strong><span>el pa&#237;s con una de las mayores biodiversidades del planeta es, en t&#233;rminos de comida espacial, la despensa molecular m&#225;s grande del sistema solar conocido.</span></strong><span> Cada fruta amaz&#243;nica que no hemos estudiado, cada tub&#233;rculo andino que solo conoce la abuela de alguien, es un candidato a cartucho de impresora orbital. </span><strong><span>El futuro de la comida espacial no se va a dise&#241;ar solamente en laboratorios: se va a descubrir en mercados campesinos.</span></strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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plausible).</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Las naves de 2050 llevar&#225;n impresoras de alimentos alimentadas por cartuchos de polvos estables: prote&#237;nas, carbohidratos, grasas, micronutrientes y compuestos de sabor, muchos de ellos derivados de nuestra biodiversidad tropical. La IA de a bordo conocer&#225; el perfil nutricional y emocional de cada uno de los tripulantes y ajustar&#225; el men&#250;: un d&#237;a imprimir&#225; un risotto porque tus biomarcadores andan bajitos, ma&#241;ana algo que sabe sospechosamente parecido al ajiaco porque detect&#243; en tu voz que amaneciste nost&#225;lgico. La cocina deja de ser un lugar de culto, para transformarse en un generador de algoritmos con saz&#243;n.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span>Se&#241;al a monitorear:</span></em><span> cuando veamos surgir las impresoras de comida en hospitales y asilos para ancianos (donde la nutrici&#243;n personalizada es cuesti&#243;n de vida o muerte), sabremos que el buffet espacial est&#225; en camino.</span></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Men&#250; 2 | El Huerto Espacial (el escenario preferido).</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Cada nave y cada base espacial llevar&#225;n consigo un ecosistema compacto: m&#243;dulos de vegetales frescos, hongos, microvegetales, insectos y peces en acuapon&#237;a, todo reciclando el agua, los nutrientes y hasta los desechos de la tripulaci&#243;n (s&#237;, incluido ese desecho; en un sistema cerrado no se desperdicia nada, y el que se r&#237;a es porque nunca ha abonado una huerta). Es el escenario m&#225;s caro y el m&#225;s dif&#237;cil, pero es el preferido por una raz&#243;n que ya conocemos: la </span><em><span>fatiga del men&#250;</span></em><span>. Nada le gana psicol&#243;gicamente a la comida fresca producida por una planta viva creciendo a bordo; los astronautas de la Estaci&#243;n Espacial reportan que cuidar los cultivos a bordo es de lo que m&#225;s salud mental les da. </span><strong><span>La huerta espacial es mitad despensa, mitad psicolog&#237;a.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span>Se&#241;al a monitorear:</span></em><span> madurez de los sistemas de agricultura en ambientes controlados en la Tierra, laboratorios de alimentaci&#243;n en las estaciones ant&#225;rticas.</span></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Men&#250; 3 | La Cocina de Aire (El Comod&#237;n Tecnol&#243;gico - Agua Molida y Viento Raspao).</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Los biorreactores de prote&#237;na microbiana tipo </span><em><span>Solein</span></em><span> escalar&#225;n hasta volverse la fuente principal de alimentaci&#243;n: el CO2 de la tripulaci&#243;n entra por un lado, la harina proteica sale por el otro, y las impresoras y cocineros la convertir&#225;n en comida. Es el escenario m&#225;s eficiente por kilogramo y el m&#225;s raro culturalmente: </span><strong><span>una humanidad alimentada con su propio aliento reciclado.</span></strong><span> Si les suena grotesco, recuerden que el ciclo del agua de la Estaci&#243;n Espacial ya funciona as&#237; desde hace a&#241;os y nadie se queja del caf&#233; (mejor no les explico de d&#243;nde sale el agua de ese caf&#233;; googl&#233;enlo bajo su propio riesgo).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span>Se&#241;al a monitorear:</span></em><span> el precio por kilo de la prote&#237;na microbiana en el mercado terrestre; el d&#237;a que compita con la harina de soya, cambiar&#225; el juego.</span></p><h4 style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Men&#250; 4 | El Terroir Marciano (el wildcard cultural).</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>El escenario que nadie est&#225; planeando y que yo me atrevo a firmar: la comida espacial dejar&#225; de imitar a la terrestre y desarrollar&#225; identidad propia. Fermentos que solo saben as&#237; en microgravedad, cultivos adaptados al suelo marciano, t&#233;cnicas culinarias nacidas de cocinar a baja presi&#243;n y gravedad parcial. Nace la primera cocina extraterrestre de la humanidad, con denominaci&#243;n de origen y todo, y en 2050 los turistas pagar&#225;n fortunas por probar el aut&#233;ntico sabor de Marte, as&#237; como hoy pagan por una espuma de jam&#243;n que solo sabe a eso en los restaurantes de cocina molecular. El miso tostadito del tablero de se&#241;ales es el primer ingrediente de ese recetario.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><em><span>Se&#241;al a monitorear:</span></em><span> las cocinas moleculares son a la ciencia gastron&#243;mica, lo que la F&#243;rmula 1 es a la actual industria automotriz. Cu&#225;ntos experimentos de cocina molecular, fermentaci&#243;n y gastronom&#237;a (no de nutrici&#243;n: de gastronom&#237;a) volar&#225;n en las pr&#243;ximas misiones espaciales est&#225; por verse.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#191;Cu&#225;l ser&#225; mejor? Les respondo con la honestidad de siempre: los cuatro men&#250;s revueltos. Los sistemas complejos no elegir&#225;n un plato &#250;nico en el men&#250;, crear&#225;n una picada. Pero f&#237;jense en el hilo com&#250;n: en los cuatro escenarios, </span><strong><span>la comida dejar&#225; de ser carga y se convertir&#225; en todo un sistema.</span></strong><span> Dejar&#225; de subir a la zona de carga de los cohetes y comenzar&#225; a producirse, imprimirse, cultivarse o fermentarse a bordo. </span><strong><span>Ese es el salto, todo lo dem&#225;s son recetas.</span></strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QpLu!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffc41376a-7de2-4342-80e4-6a035d0c23ba_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Dejemos de preguntarnos &#8220;&#191;qu&#233; va a pasar?&#8221;, esa es la pregunta que se hacen los espectadores. Pensemos como arquitectos del futuro: *</span><em><span>si en diciembre de 2050 una tripulaci&#243;n celebra la primera cena de Navidad en Marte, con comida cultivada, impresa o molecularizada </span></em><span>in situ</span><em><span>, &#191;qu&#233; tiene que pasar para que lleguemos hasta all&#225;?</span></em><span>*</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>2050.</span></strong><span> Las bases marcianas producir&#225;n el 80% de sus calor&#237;as en el lugar. En la mesa: vegetales de la huerta de la base, prote&#237;na de biorreactor convertida en algo que honestamente parece pernil, un fermento local que ya nadie compara con los de la Tierra porque es mejor en lo suyo, y de postre, un dulce impreso con mol&#233;culas de frutas amaz&#243;nicas que viajaron como polvo y renacieron como memoria. Alguien llora de nostalgia al probarlo y nadie se burla.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>2038.</span></strong><span> Las estaciones comerciales en &#243;rbita terrestre y lunar validar&#225;n los sistemas cerrados de alimentaci&#243;n con a&#241;os de operaci&#243;n continua. Ir al espacio ya no implica resignarse a comer comida en tubos de &#8220;pasta dental&#8221;. Las estaciones espaciales competir&#225;n entre s&#237; por su chef, como lo hacen los buenos hoteles.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>2032.</span></strong><span> La agricultura de ambiente controlado y la prote&#237;na microbiana alcanzar&#225;n escala comercial en la Tierra, no por romanticismo espacial sino por la raz&#243;n de siempre: son buen negocio en un planeta con sequ&#237;as, guerras y cadenas de suministro nerviosas. El espacio se volver&#225; el mejor laboratorio de marketing para la comida del futuro: </span><strong><span>si funciona all&#225; arriba, funciona en cualquier parte.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>2028.</span></strong><span> Los concursos tipo </span><em><span>Mars to Table</span></em><span> seleccionar&#225;n a la generaci&#243;n de empresas que dominar&#225; el sector. Entre ellas, y esto depende de decisiones que se est&#225;n tomando ahorita mismo, varias latinoamericanas que entendieron que su biodiversidad, su tradici&#243;n agr&#237;cola y su historia liofilizadora milenaria eran fichas de p&#243;ker en la mesa grande del casino.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>2026.</span></strong><span> Es decir, hoy. Es decir, ustedes, leyendo este panfleto digital con filo (si lleg&#243; hasta aqu&#237; sin antojarse de nada, h&#225;gase revisar). Hoy es cuando una empresa de alimentos de la regi&#243;n decide si el reto de la NASA es &#8220;cosas de gringos&#8221; o una puerta abierta con nombre propio. Hoy es cuando un estudiante de ingenier&#237;a de alimentos en Medell&#237;n, en Lima o en Guadalajara decide si su tesis va a ser una m&#225;s sobre vida &#250;til de la mermelada o el primer paso de una carrera interplanetaria. Hoy es cuando alg&#250;n muchacho embarcado de marinero en un remolcador, como lo estuve yo hace casi cuatro d&#233;cadas, prueba una raci&#243;n militar y en lugar de trag&#225;rsela sin pensar, se hace la pregunta que a m&#237; me tom&#243; d&#233;cadas hacerme: &#191;y esto qui&#233;n lo dise&#241;&#243;, y por qu&#233; no lo estamos dise&#241;ando nosotros? &#191;O van a seguir pegados del IG perdiendo el tiempo con </span><em><span>influencers</span></em><span> en tangas cantando </span><em><span>reggaeton</span></em><span>, mientras una IA los deja sin </span><em><span>camello</span></em><span>?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>El </span><em><span>backcasting</span></em><span> revela lo mismo de siempre, y no me canso de decirlo: </span><strong><span>el eslab&#243;n cr&#237;tico del futuro no es la tecnolog&#237;a, son las decisiones que tomamos hoy</span></strong><span>, es tomar acciones para sentarse en la mesa donde se est&#225; repartiendo el men&#250; del futuro. Porque en esa mesa, como en todas las mesas, el que no llega y se sienta a tiempo, pues no come o come fr&#237;o. Como dec&#237;a mi mam&#225;: </span><strong><span>en la mesa del futuro, &#161;el que almorz&#243;, almorz&#243;!</span></strong></p><h4><strong><span>El Portafolio de los Cocineros Gal&#225;cticos</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ahora bien, como un diagn&#243;stico sin receta es simplemente un chisme fino, aqu&#237; va el portafolio de esta Toma en los tres niveles:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Nivel 1 &#8212; Los Experimentos (este trimestre).</span></strong><span> Si trabajas en la industria de alimentos, en cualquier eslab&#243;n: estudia el </span><em><span>Deep Space Food Challenge</span></em><span> y su secuela </span><em><span>Mars to Table</span></em><span> como se estudia el p&#233;nsum de una universidad. No para competir ma&#241;ana, sino para entender los requisitos, porque son la lista de deseos de toda la industria alimentaria del futuro: </span><strong><span>m&#225;xima nutrici&#243;n, m&#237;nimo desperdicio, larga vida &#250;til, poca agua, poca energ&#237;a, mucho sabor.</span></strong><span> El que resuelva eso para Marte lo resolvi&#243; para un hospital, para una zona de desastre, para una escuela rural, para un viajero que espera un vuelo retrasado en alg&#250;n aeropuerto del mundo. Si no eres del sector, el experimento se pone m&#225;s sabroso a&#250;n: esta semana, prueba una prote&#237;na alternativa, visita un cultivo vertical si hay uno en tu ciudad, o al menos fermenta algo en tu casa (empezar por unos encurtidos no compromete a nadie y le da a uno una humildad microbiana muy sana).</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Nivel 2 &#8212; Apuestas Estrat&#233;gicas (2 a 3 a&#241;os).</span></strong><span> La fiebre espacial necesita construir con pica y pala sus rieles. La comida es la pica m&#225;s subvalorada del tablero. Ingredientes funcionales de biodiversidad tropical, liofilizaci&#243;n de nueva generaci&#243;n (&#161;la tecnolog&#237;a que los Andes ancestrales nos prestaron sin cobrar!), empaques comestibles, prote&#237;nas de insecto, fermentaci&#243;n de precisi&#243;n: todo eso tiene mercado terrestre creciente HOY y una ventana espacial ma&#241;ana. Vuelve y juega: la idea no es fundar una empresa de cohetes para competirle a Elon, </span><strong><span>la clave est&#225; en convertirse en un proveedor indispensable para los que ya la fundaron.</span></strong><span> Cuando la econom&#237;a orbital despegue del todo, los que vayan a estar montados en esos fierros van a tener hambre tres veces al d&#237;a, &#191;y qu&#233; tal que el men&#250; lo aportemos nosotros?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Nivel 3 &#8212; Moonshots (10 a&#241;os).</span></strong><span> Aqu&#237; va lo m&#237;o, lo dejo por escrito para que dentro de una d&#233;cada me lo cobren o me lo celebren: </span><strong><span>que Am&#233;rica Latina se proponga ser la despensa oficial de la econom&#237;a espacial.</span></strong><span> Estamos engolosinados con montar cohetes en Urab&#225;, cuando tenemos la biodiversidad (la materia prima molecular), la tradici&#243;n agr&#237;cola de miles de a&#241;os, la historia liofilizadora andina, el talento (pregunten cu&#225;ntos apellidos latinos hay en la NASA) y hasta la geograf&#237;a de lanzamiento. Nos falta lo de siempre, salir del </span><em><span>ag&#252;eve</span></em><span>, lo que ya saben los que leyeron el salto cu&#225;ntico: dejar de pensar que esa mesa es de otros. El primer pa&#237;s que monte un programa serio de &#8220;gastronom&#237;a espacial&#8221; con universidades, empresas de alimentos, agencias espaciales y cocineros trabajando juntos, se quedar&#225; con una industria que todav&#237;a no tiene due&#241;o. </span><strong><span>Las industrias sin due&#241;o se las queda el primero que las reclame.</span></strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Oloa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4bc5d89b-8596-438f-9583-8c0187984882_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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Un antrop&#243;logo colombiano, criado entre bandeja paisa, sopa de arroz y arepas, formado como marinero entre raciones militares, sentado en un aeropuerto ruso, exprimi&#233;ndose en la boca un tubo de pato con hierbas id&#233;ntico al que Gagarin llev&#243; al espacio hace sesenta a&#241;os, gracias a la traducci&#243;n de una desconocida amable. En esa sala de espera hab&#237;a m&#225;s futuro del que yo supe leer ese d&#237;a: hab&#237;a una tecnolog&#237;a de conservaci&#243;n nacida de la carrera espacial, vendida en m&#225;quina expendedora como quien vende chicles; hab&#237;a una viajera para quien comer como cosmonauta era la cosa m&#225;s normal del mundo; y hab&#237;a un chirrete tom&#225;ndole fotos a todo, sin saber que a&#241;os despu&#233;s esa escena abrir&#237;a una Toma FUTOPIX sobre el men&#250; de la humanidad.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Esa es la lecci&#243;n que quiero dejarles, con los dos sombreros puestos. Con el de futurista: </span><strong><span>la comida espacial ya no es el tubo, el tubo es el pasado; el futuro es un sistema vivo que imprime, cultiva y fermenta</span></strong><span>, y las se&#241;ales muestran que ese futuro se est&#225; cocinando ahora mismo, con fuego alto y varios cocineros latinoamericanos ya metidos en la cocina. Con el de antrop&#243;logo: por m&#225;s tecnolog&#237;a que le metamos, comer seguir&#225; siendo lo que ha sido desde la primera hoguera: </span><strong><span>la forma en que los humanos nos decimos, unos a otros, que no estamos solos.</span></strong><span> Por eso la coreana llev&#243; su kimchi, la italiana su espresso y el mexicano su tortilla. Eso me deja tranquilo por lo que se nos viene: una especie que fue capaz de llevar el espresso a la &#243;rbita para no tomarse un caf&#233; malo, es una especie que va a llegar a las estrellas comiendo bien.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Como siempre, no me voy a despedir sin dejarles tarea. Si&#233;ntate en tu pr&#243;xima comida familiar, la del domingo si se puede, y mira el plato con ojos de futurista: cada receta de esa mesa es un paquete de informaci&#243;n cultural que alguien conserv&#243; por generaciones para que llegara hasta nosotros. Hazte la pregunta que separa a los que leen acerca del futuro, de los que lo dise&#241;amos:</span></p><p><strong><span>&#191;Qu&#233; sabor de mi mesa merece llegar a las estrellas, y qu&#233; estoy haciendo para que llegue?</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>No me la respondas ya, deja que el tema te abra el apetito y que despierte tu curiosidad, porque las buenas preguntas se dejan bailando, para que la mente rumie y vaya decantando.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Cuando tengas la respuesta, si te apetece escr&#237;beme en los comentarios. Siempre los leo todos, aunque sean solo unos cuantos. Las mejores historias terminan, con permiso de sus autores, alimentando futuras Tomas. S&#233; que alg&#250;n d&#237;a, puede que no sea muy lejano, alguien va a abrir un compartimiento en una nave rumbo a Marte, va a sacar algo caliente que huele a ma&#237;z asado. A doscientos millones de kil&#243;metros de casa va a sonre&#237;r como sonre&#237; yo en Domod&#233;dovo. Ojal&#225; y fuera una arepita, impresa en una m&#225;quina con acento paisa.</span></p><h3><strong><span>El futuro no es de los que lo predicen. Es de los que se sientan en su mesa, hoy, &#161;YA!</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Nos leemos en la pr&#243;xima Toma. Ya sabes, si esta te abri&#243; el apetito (o el techo), comp&#225;rtela con ese amigo que todav&#237;a cree que los astronautas comen p&#237;ldoras.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>FUTOPIX | Futurismo para gente despierta. Si llegaste hasta aqu&#237; y todav&#237;a no te has suscrito, pi&#233;nsalo as&#237;: es gratis, es un clic, y es la &#250;nica suscripci&#243;n que te prepara para pedir el men&#250; en Marte.</span></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png 424w, 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futurista</strong><span>. </span><strong>No constituye asesor&#237;a financiera, ni solicitud de inversi&#243;n, ni recomendaci&#243;n para comprar, vender o participar en ning&#250;n instrumento, empresa, proyecto o activo.</strong></p><p><span>Si alguien utiliza el contenido de este material para solicitar dinero, inversiones o participaci&#243;n econ&#243;mica, </span><strong>consid&#233;relo inmediatamente como una posible estafa</strong><span>.</span></p><p><span>Protege siempre tu informaci&#243;n personal y financiera.</span></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Honestidad Brutal | FUTOPIX]]></title><description><![CDATA[TOMA 43 | Cuando la Malicia Ind&#237;gena se Disfraza de IA]]></description><link>https://www.futopix.com/p/futopix-honestidad-brutal</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.futopix.com/p/futopix-honestidad-brutal</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[FUTOPIX | Gabriel Bedoya]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:12:25 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j6Og!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd75b3de7-505c-4ae8-917b-e2a1f40f0088_1536x1024.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j6Og!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd75b3de7-505c-4ae8-917b-e2a1f40f0088_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!j6Og!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd75b3de7-505c-4ae8-917b-e2a1f40f0088_1536x1024.png 424w, 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pide plata prestada: </span><strong><span>&#191;Gabriel tus FUTOPIX... los escribe la IA?</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ah&#237; me planto una bomba en forma de pregunta. Sin tanque de aire, sin m&#225;scara, a pulm&#243;n libre. Les confieso que no me sorprendi&#243;, porque esta pregunta se ha vuelto repetitiva entre mis lectores, unos la hacen de frente, otros la insin&#250;an con esa elegancia criolla del que pregunta sin preguntar &#243; sin querer queriendo como dec&#237;a el Chapul&#237;n Colorado. Es una inquietud leg&#237;tima que merece una respuesta honesta de mi parte, y ustedes saben que en esta casa la honestidad no viene en presentaci&#243;n </span><em><span>light</span></em><span>. </span><strong><span>Raz&#243;n por la cual decid&#237; dedicarle esta Toma completa a la IA y los escritores, o mejor dicho: a este escritor y su IA.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Porque miren, parceros, yo pude haber cerrado la discusi&#243;n ah&#237; mismo, en la superficie, d&#225;rmelas de pulcro y responder con cara de ofendido: </span><strong><span>&#191;perd&#243;n? &#191;C&#243;mo te atreves siquiera a sugerirlo?</span></strong><span> Pero la verdad tiene m&#225;s aristas que una guan&#225;bana, y un s&#237; rotundo habr&#237;a dado por terminadas mis tomas dominicales de forma abrupta, como quien apaga el televisor en el minuto noventa. As&#237; que hoy, en un gesto de </span><em><span>honestidad brutal</span></em><span>, les voy a abrir la cocina de par en par y </span><strong><span>les voy a contar exactamente c&#243;mo se produce cada FUTOPIX que ustedes tan diligentemente leen y comentan todas las semanas.</span></strong><span> Prep&#225;rense por que vamos a bucear profundo.</span></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong><span>El Debate </span>que Naci&#243; en las Entra&#241;as de Hollywood</strong></h3><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vAC0!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F582598fd-a92a-4ad0-8178-dcec73769091_1456x819.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>No es para nadie un secreto que hoy existe un gran debate mundial que enfrenta a escritores y productores de contenido con las m&#225;quinas. Un debate que naci&#243; en las entra&#241;as de los libretistas de Hollywood, con huelga incluida, pancartas y todo el drama que solo Hollywood sabe producir (hasta sus protestas tienen mejor guion que muchas pel&#237;culas), y que se ha extendido a todas las geograf&#237;as y a todos los medios como la p&#243;lvora en una marranada.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Aqu&#237; va mi primera dosis de honestidad brutal:</span></strong><span> en este debate hay mucha hipocres&#237;a fina. Porque es evidente que mucha gente posa de sabio cuando parte de su conocimiento lo construyeron con un </span><em><span>cuaderno de cincuenta hojas</span></em><span>, como dec&#237;a uno de mis profesores de la universidad, el querid&#237;simo maestro Hernando Gallego Perdomo. El cuaderno de cincuenta hojas, para los que no tuvieron el privilegio de la met&#225;fora, es ese conocimiento cortico, de una sola fuente, sin repuesto, el mismo que hoy muchos defienden como si fuera una artesan&#237;a sagrada amenazada por las IAs.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>El debate no es nuevo, solo cambi&#243; de la herramienta de la cu&#225;l se debate.</span></strong><span> Cuando lleg&#243; la imprenta, los copistas juraron que se mor&#237;a la cultura, cuando lleg&#243; la fotograf&#237;a, los pintores decretaron el funeral del arte, cuando lleg&#243; la calculadora, los profesores de aritm&#233;tica rasgaron sus vestiduras, y ah&#237; vamos: la cultura no se muri&#243;, la pintura tampoco, y las matem&#225;ticas gozan de buena salud. </span><strong><span>Lo que s&#237; se muri&#243;, en cada transici&#243;n, fue la pereza disfrazada de tradici&#243;n.</span></strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong><span>La Dieta de Informaci&#243;n | Etnograf&#237;a Cinco</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Met&#225;monos de lleno en el tema. </span><strong><span>FUTOPIX no es otra cosa que una cuidadosa y meticulosa vigilancia de lo que algunos llaman </span></strong><em><strong><span>dieta de informaci&#243;n</span></strong></em><strong><span>.</span></strong><span> As&#237; como uno es lo que come, uno escribe lo que consume, y yo llevo d&#233;cadas cuidando ese men&#250; con la disciplina de un chef Michellin.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Cada escrito que aqu&#237; deposito es el resultado de la observaci&#243;n activa de las cosas que suceden en mi entorno, de un h&#225;bito curado durante a&#241;os para capturar </span><em><span>se&#241;ales d&#233;biles</span></em><span> que me llegan a trav&#233;s de diferentes medios, y de una f&#233;rrea disciplina de lectura que vengo cultivando hace m&#225;s de treinta a&#241;os.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>La inspiraci&#243;n para escribir FUTOPIX no me surge por combusti&#243;n espont&#225;nea.</span></strong><span> Por el contrario, la antropolog&#237;a me ense&#241;&#243; a monitorear el ecosistema con los cinco sentidos, un h&#225;bito al que yo he bautizado </span><em><strong><span>etnograf&#237;a cinco</span></strong></em><strong><span>.</span></strong><span> Como buen disc&#237;pulo de la escuela </span><em><span>Dolmatoffniana</span></em><span> (en honor al profesor Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, autor de uno de mis primeros libros de antropolog&#237;a, de esos que a uno lo marcan como hierro caliente), permanentemente estoy escaneando se&#241;ales, las cuales se convierten primero en curiosidad y posteriormente en escritos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>En este orden de ideas, me considero un muy buen </span><em><span>escuchador</span></em><span>. S&#237;, escuchador, que no es lo mismo que oidor: el oidor deja pasar el sonido, el escuchador lo atrapa y lo destripa. Cuando algo me resuena, lo deposito en un </span><em><span>diario de campo</span></em><span> digital que llevo en mi tel&#233;fono, manteniendo viva una de las mejores pr&#225;cticas que me ha regalado la antropolog&#237;a. En ese repositorio de notas voy escribiendo las cosas que considero interesantes, para despu&#233;s trabajarlas en la tranquilidad de mi estudio, como el pescador que sube la atarraya y solo en la orilla revisa qu&#233; cay&#243;.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Aqu&#237; les dejo una confesi&#243;n que llevaba tiempo guardada: !</span><strong><span>FUTOPIX lo escribo primero para m&#237;!</span></strong><span> Este es mi laboratorio, donde exploro ideas, le doy forma a conceptos y me empeliculo con mis propias historias. Dicho en cristiano: este es mi espacio de </span><em><span>catarsis</span></em><span>, donde libero mis demonios y donde me fumo la pipa de la paz, para sentirme libre. </span><strong><span>En este espacio nadie manda,</span></strong><span> ni los algoritmos, ni las tendencias, ni el qu&#233; dir&#225;n, nadie, absolutamente nadie.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Es muy f&#225;cil que en mis elucubraciones surjan muchas ideas compitiendo por espacio en mi procesador mental, como pasajeros peleando puesto en una buseta a las seis de la tarde. Pero </span><strong><span>solo las m&#225;s sexys llegan a producci&#243;n</span></strong><span>, y al final son las que alcanzan este espacio en el papel digital. Las dem&#225;s quedan en el diario de campo, esperando su turno, algunas llevan a&#241;os haciendo fila y no pierdo la f&#233; de que en alg&#250;n momento ver&#225;n la luz.</span></p><h4><strong><span>El Anti-Gur&#250; (Por Qu&#233; no me Creo la Vaca que M&#225;s Alambrados Ha Reventado)</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Una vez que una idea me ha convencido, me hago la pregunta inc&#243;moda: &#191;por qu&#233; mis lectores deber&#237;an saber lo que yo pienso? La respuesta exige otra ronda de honestidad brutal. La verdad es que no doy consejos financieros, no me considero un </span><em><span>gur&#250;</span></em><span> de negocios; m&#225;s bien me considero medio torpe en esas ardides. Tampoco discuto de pol&#237;tica: la detesto, aunque estoy claro en mis posiciones, que son dos cosas muy distintas. Mucho menos soy un gur&#250; tecnol&#243;gico, en pocas palabras: </span><strong><span>no me las doy de ser la vaca que m&#225;s alambrados ha reventado.</span></strong><span> Me gusta reflexionar sobre la vida y sobre las experiencias que esta me ha permitido. </span><strong><span>Lo que aqu&#237; comparto es m&#225;s contexto que recomendaciones</span></strong><span>, y definitivamente no son consejos de c&#243;mo hacerse millonario mientras duermes; para eso all&#225; afuera ya hay suficientes vendedores de ilusiones con micr&#243;fono de diadema.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Eso s&#237;, y aqu&#237; me voy a dar una flor porque nadie m&#225;s me la va a dar: </span><strong><span>me considero un profesional en el desarrollo de contextos.</span></strong><span> En esto soy muy, pero muy bueno, modestia aparte. Resulta que </span><strong><span>hoy la IA requiere de buenos contextos para funcionar como Dios manda.</span></strong><span> Digamos que es una de esas cosas accidentales que suceden en la vida: en la &#233;poca en que todos pens&#225;bamos que los cient&#237;ficos sociales nos morir&#237;amos de hambre, nos lleg&#243; la bonanza. Porque tanto la construcci&#243;n de contextos como las </span><em><span>ontolog&#237;as</span></em><span> est&#225;n profundamente enraizadas en las entra&#241;as de las ciencias sociales, aunque algunos ilusos se atrevan a llamarlo </span><em><span>ingenier&#237;a del contexto</span></em><span>, como si ponerle la palabra ingenier&#237;a a algo lo volviera autom&#225;ticamente serio. D&#233;cadas de etnograf&#237;a cultural, para que ahora resulte que el futuro del trabajo de los antrop&#243;logos es explicarle como funciona la cultura a una m&#225;quina. La vida, se&#241;ores, tiene un sentido del humor exquisito, parece una comedia de Mel Brooks.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>En este orden de ideas, </span><strong><span>mi proceso para escribir se nutre de darle contexto a la curiosidad</span></strong><span>, de darle marco te&#243;rico a las pendejadas que escucho o leo durante la semana, para llevarlas a otro nivel. 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong><span>El Vaciado de Cerebro</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Una vez identifico un tema con el cual me conecto, lo siguiente que hago es sentarme a hacer un </span><em><span>vaciado de cerebro</span></em><span>: escribo todo lo que se me ocurre, por est&#250;pido, iluso y ajeno que parezca. </span><strong><span>Poco o nada me importa lo que otros eruditos digan o dejen de decir</span></strong><span>, si me leen o no me leen.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Para el que me lee: gracias, parceros, para el que no me lee: vaya y vuelva.</span></strong><span> Esos pocos que me leen hacen que mi existencia tenga significado, porque como dicen los fil&#243;sofos profundos, especialmente los ling&#252;istas, </span><strong><span>&#8220;existimos en la palabra&#8221;</span></strong><span>, y mientras haya quien consuma las m&#237;as&#8230; existo! As&#237; de simple y de brutal.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Como ya lo expliqu&#233; antes, </span><strong><span>no escribo para descrestar a nadie, escribo para m&#237;.</span></strong><span> S&#237; se&#241;ores, no me lo s&#233; todo; por el contrario, soy un perfecto ignorante en much&#237;simos temas, y presumir lo contrario ser&#237;a traicionar el esp&#237;ritu de </span><strong><span>FUTOPIX.</span></strong><span> Pero escribo para llevarles un poco de inspiraci&#243;n en este mundo tan ins&#237;pido, donde el &#233;xito se mide en miles de seguidores y la sabidur&#237;a en videos de treinta segundos.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Una vez que vac&#237;o mi mente, entonces le doy rienda suelta a la curiosidad. Soy un ac&#233;rrimo consumidor de </span><em><span>podcasts</span></em><span>, de otros </span><em><span>substacks</span></em><span> y de los hoy devaluados </span><em><span>TED talks</span></em><span> (que pasaron de ser el Olimpo de las ideas a ser el karaoke de la motivaci&#243;n, pero de vez en cuando todav&#237;a sueltan una perla). Me nutro de mis libros, de los viejos y de los que a&#250;n estoy leyendo, para </span><strong><span>convertir la lectura en conversaciones</span></strong><span>. Mi disciplina lectora, cultivada durante m&#225;s de treinta a&#241;os, me tiene devorando p&#225;ginas todas las semanas con la constancia de quien reza el rosario.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Tengo la mala costumbre, que reivindico como virtud, de rayar los libros, de hacerles comentarios en los m&#225;rgenes y de pelearme con los autores al grado de insultarlos o de llamarlos mentirosos. Mis libros no son objetos de colecci&#243;n, son campos de batalla. </span><strong><span>Un libro sin rayar es un libro sin leer</span></strong><span>, digan lo que digan los bibliotecarios.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Desde mis tiempos de estudiante de antropolog&#237;a tengo adem&#225;s la costumbre de hacer </span><em><span>mapas mentales</span></em><span>. Todos los libros que he le&#237;do, o casi todos, los he convertido en mapas mentales que me sirven como elementos de consulta, mi propia biblioteca de Alejandr&#237;a en esteroides, dibujada a punta de ramas y flechas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ah, y un detalle que siempre sorprende: tengo como disciplina leer en ingl&#233;s. El noventa por ciento de lo que escucho y leo es en ese idioma. No porque desprecie la lengua castellana, faltaba m&#225;s, si en ella me fumo la vida, sino porque un viejo profesor de Harvard (universidad donde, aclaro antes de que me lo pregunten, no he estudiado nunca, ya quisiera yo) un d&#237;a me dijo que </span><em><span>la ciencia no hablaba espa&#241;ol</span></em><span>, y yo me lo tom&#233; a pecho. Me doli&#243;, pero me lo tom&#233; a pecho. Esa herida, como tantas otras, termin&#243; siendo una puerta que me abri&#243; el mundo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Despu&#233;s de leer, de escuchar expertos e inspiradores, vuelvo a mi texto, a mi vaciado de cerebro, y reedito mis ideas. Ah&#237; es donde la chatarra empieza a volverse joya, o por lo menos bisuter&#237;a decente.</span></p><h4><strong><span>Mozart y su Piano</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>He tenido la fortuna de haber sido invitado a dar conferencias en m&#225;s de cuarenta pa&#237;ses, un periplo que me ha llevado por los cinco continentes. En algunas de esas conferencias le he hecho a los asistentes la siguiente pregunta, que se las regalo para su pr&#243;ximo almuerzo dominical:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>&#191;A qui&#233;n le pertenecen las obras de Mozart: a &#233;l o a su piano?</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Siempre hay un silencio inc&#243;modo. Algunos se r&#237;en, otros fruncen el ce&#241;o, y uno que otro saca el celular a googlear, no vaya a ser que el piano tenga abogados. Lo hago con el af&#225;n de llevar a los asistentes a un estado mental donde nos atrevamos a pensar que </span><strong><span>los pianos, como la IA, son solo herramientas, y que de cada uno de nosotros depende c&#243;mo usarlas.</span></strong><span> Habr&#225; quienes mediante su uso compongan obras monumentales, y habr&#225; quienes simplemente desarrollen una obra promedio. </span><strong><span>El </span></strong><em><strong><span>R&#233;quiem</span></strong></em><strong><span> no est&#225; en las teclas, est&#225; en Mozart,</span></strong><span> las teclas solo obedecen lo que la mente y talento de Mozart dicta.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Ahora ll&#233;vense la pregunta a nuestra era: &#191;un poema escrito en m&#225;quina de escribir tiene menos valor que uno escrito a mano? &#191;Un Garc&#237;a M&#225;rquez tecleado vale menos que un Garc&#237;a M&#225;rquez manuscrito? Nadie en su sano juicio lo sostendr&#237;a. Sin embargo, </span><strong><span>ese es exactamente el debate de nuestra era</span></strong><span>, solo que ahora la m&#225;quina de escribir opina, sugiere y corrige la ortograf&#237;a. Ah&#237;, lo admito, la cosa se pone m&#225;s sabrosa, por que no recuerdo que se hubise producido protestas frente a las oficinas de las antiguas fabricas de maquinas de escribir Remington o Brother.</span></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tygy!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5ebb322-6ba2-4208-9c2c-d978c0eabf7d_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Tygy!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe5ebb322-6ba2-4208-9c2c-d978c0eabf7d_1672x941.png 424w, 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Respiren profundo, que aqu&#237; viene la honestidad brutal en su m&#225;xima expresi&#243;n:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>S&#237;, uso la IA para escribir, que no es lo mismo, ni de fundas, que la IA me escriba mis FUTOPIX.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Les explico la diferencia, porque en esa preposici&#243;n se juega todo el partido. Una vez he descargado todas mis ideas en un cuerpo de texto, m&#237;o, sudado, rayado y reeditado, le pido a una IA varias cosas. La primera es que me revise la ortograf&#237;a. No soy muy bueno en el tema; esa materia siempre me dio dificultad en la escuela, y no soy propiamente la Real Academia de la Lengua Espa&#241;ola en dos piernas. En ocasiones tambi&#233;n le pido que me revise la gram&#225;tica. Pero </span><strong><span>le tengo profundamente prohibido, y cuando digo prohibido es con candado y escritura notariada, cambiar mi estilo, mi tono, mi cadencia y hasta mis malos chistes.</span></strong><span> Los malos chistes son m&#237;os, me los gan&#233; a pulso, y no se los cedo ni a la m&#225;quina m&#225;s inteligente del planeta.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Hay d&#237;as, adem&#225;s, en los que la inspiraci&#243;n no est&#225; en sus mejores momentos; a todo escritor le pasa, el que diga lo contrario miente o publica poco. Durante esos d&#237;as le he pedido a una IA que analice mis escritos anteriores y me sugiera temas para desarrollar. Quiero confesarles algo: </span><strong><span>no hay nada como una IA para desatrancar estancamientos.</span></strong><span> Algunos </span><strong><span>FUTOPIX</span></strong><span> han surgido por recomendaci&#243;n de mi IA, que a estas alturas me conoce los callos intelectuales mejor que algunos colegas.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>&#191;Ven la arquitectura del asunto? La se&#241;al la capturo yo con mi </span><em><span>etnograf&#237;a cinco</span></em><span>. La curiosidad es m&#237;a, el diario de campo es m&#237;o, el vaciado de cerebro es m&#237;o. Las lecturas, los libros insultados, los mapas mentales, las peleas con los autores: todo eso es m&#237;o. </span><strong><span>La IA entra al final, como entraba el corrector de estilo en las editoriales de antes</span></strong><span>, o como entra el afinador al teatro antes del concierto. El piano afinado suena mejor, pero el </span><em><span>R&#233;quiem</span></em><span> sigue siendo de Mozart.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>No soy, ni me considero, un </span><em><span>purista</span></em><span>. S&#233; que hay escritores para los que la IA es pecado mortal en pelotas, y respeto su trinchera, cada quien pelea la guerra que quiere. Para m&#237; no hay rollo: </span><strong><span>la IA es una s&#250;per herramienta que me ayuda a encontrar caminos, me corrige mis falencias y me permite llevarles mis ideas todos los domingos</span></strong><span> sin que la ortograf&#237;a me delate. Usarla no me hace menos escritor, as&#237; como usar tanque de aire no me hace menos buzo. El que baja a las profundidades soy yo, el que mira a trav&#233;s de la m&#225;scara soy yo, el que vuelve a la superficie con una historia fant&#225;stica para contar soy yo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>En esta instancia conecto con el t&#237;tulo de esta Toma, porque alguno se estar&#225; preguntando qu&#233; tiene que ver la malicia ind&#237;gena en todo esto. Pues tiene que ver todo: la </span><em><span>malicia ind&#237;gena</span></em><span>, esa viveza criolla de la que hablamos en la Toma 43, tambi&#233;n se est&#225; disfrazando de IA. Est&#225;n los que usan la herramienta para multiplicar su voz, y est&#225;n los vivos que la usan para fingir una voz que nunca tuvieron, los del cuaderno de cincuenta hojas... La diferencia entre unos y otros no la detecta ning&#250;n </span><em><span>software</span></em><span>: la detecta el lector, con el tiempo, como se detecta al que habla de buceo sin haberse mojado las patas jam&#225;s. </span><strong><span>La IA amplifica lo que hay, si hay profundidad, amplifica profundidad. Si hay vac&#237;o, amplifica el eco.</span></strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gm-b!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcfd25de-956e-49e2-a7b7-6cc525450db8_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gm-b!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcfd25de-956e-49e2-a7b7-6cc525450db8_1672x941.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gm-b!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Ffcfd25de-956e-49e2-a7b7-6cc525450db8_1672x941.png 848w, 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Pude esconder la cocina como esconden la suya tantos restaurantes de mantel largo. Escog&#237; en cambio contarle lo que hoy les cont&#233; a ustedes; al final de la reuni&#243;n le dije algo que me qued&#243; sonando: &#8220;la IA es mi compa&#241;era de inmersi&#243;n&#8221;.<br><br>En el buceo existe una regla de oro: </span><strong><span>nunca bucees solo.</span></strong><span> El compa&#241;ero no bucea por ti, no respira por ti, no mira por ti. Pero te cuida la espalda, te se&#241;ala lo que no viste y te avisa cu&#225;ndo revisar como va tu consumo de aire. Eso es exactamente mi IA: mi </span><em><span>compa&#241;ero de inmersi&#243;n</span></em><span> en la profundidad de las ideas, per las </span><strong><span>inmersiones siguen siendo m&#237;as.</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>As&#237; que la respuesta honesta y brutal a la pregunta de mi amigo Jaime es esta: </span><strong><span>no, la IA no escribe mis FUTOPIX.</span></strong><span> Los escribe el antrop&#243;logo que llevo por dentro, con m&#225;s de treinta a&#241;os de lecturas encima, un diario de campo en el tel&#233;fono, una biblioteca insultada y vilipendiada, cuarenta pa&#237;ses de conferencias, mala ortograf&#237;a y una necesidad casi fisiol&#243;gica de sentarse cada semana a fumarse la vida por escrito. La IA le corrige las tildes a ese se&#241;or, le sugiere cambios y de vez en cuando le desatranca la inspiraci&#243;n.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>No quiero cerrar esta Toma dando la impresi&#243;n de que estoy defendi&#233;ndome, por el contrario quiero cerrarla invit&#225;ndolos. Porque la pregunta de mi amigo, era bien intencionada, bien mirada, no era sobre m&#237;: era sobre todos nosotros. En los pr&#243;ximos a&#241;os, </span><strong><span>cada uno de ustedes va a tener que decidir qu&#233; clase de relaci&#243;n construye con estas herramientas de IA.</span></strong><span> Hay solo dos caminos: el del que le entrega el piano a la m&#225;quina para que toque por &#233;l, y termina produciendo la misma sinfon&#237;a gen&#233;rica que otros diez millones de usuarios; y el del que se sienta al piano con m&#225;s horas de vuelo, m&#225;s lecturas, m&#225;s cicatrices y m&#225;s contexto, y usa la m&#225;quina para llegar donde antes no alcanzaba.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>El primero se vuelve prescindible con cada actualizaci&#243;n. El segundo se vuelve m&#225;s irremplazable con cada uso.</span></strong><span> Porque en la era de las respuestas infinitas, </span><strong><span>el activo escaso no es escribir: es tener algo que decir o preguntar.</span></strong><span> Tener algo que decir no se descarga, no se instala y no viene en versi&#243;n </span><em><span>premium</span></em><span>: se cultiva leyendo, viviendo, viajando, fracasando, buceando y conversando con los amigos que le hacen </span>a uno <span>preguntas inc&#243;modas en un almuerzo.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>As&#237; que esta semana les dejo la tarea, y va en serio: h&#225;ganse la </span><em><span>pregunta de Mozart</span></em><span> frente a su propia herramienta, la que sea. </span><strong><span>&#191;Est&#225;n componiendo con ella, o est&#225;n dejando que el piano toque solo mientras ustedes aplauden?</span></strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Cuando tengan la respuesta, escr&#237;banmela en los comentarios, los leo todos y a todos, sin IA de por medio, porque los comentarios de ustedes son mi postre dominical.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Yo, mientras tanto, seguir&#233; aqu&#237; cada domingo, con mi diario de campo, mis libros rayados, mis mapas mentales, mi compa&#241;ero digital de inmersiones y mis malos chistes de fabricaci&#243;n cien por ciento humana y artesanal.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span>Porque mientras ustedes me lean, yo existo, y por ahora no pienso dejar de existir.</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Nos leemos en la pr&#243;xima Toma. Ya saben: si esta les movi&#243; el piso (o les destap&#243; la cocina), comp&#225;rtanla con ese amigo que jura que todo lo que lee en internet lo escribi&#243; un robot.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>FUTOPIX | Futurismo para gente despierta. 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong><span>La Casa de las Varillas</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Como antrop&#243;logo con una carrera de +20 a&#241;os en el arte he tenido la oportunidad de hacer trabajo de campo en pr&#225;cticamente todos los pa&#237;ses latinoamericanos, y aunque regionalmente un mexicano es muy distinto a un argentino, persisten algunos rasgos distintivos que nos conectan transversalmente a lo largo y ancho del territorio. Esas diferencias invisibles para muchos, pero evidentes para el ojo entrenado, hacen parte de los rasgos distintivos de la cultura hispana y que rara vez se ven en otros territorios.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Les confieso algo, yo crec&#237; almorzando los domingos en la casa de mi abuela, una casa humilde rodeada de balcones, desde donde se ve&#237;an algunas casas que nunca se terminaron de construir. Algunas casas en el barrio de mi abuela ten&#237;an las varillas de hierro asom&#225;ndose por el techo, apuntando al cielo como antenas esperando una se&#241;al que nunca lleg&#243;. Cuenta la leyenda que muchas de esas casas se construyeron con las cesant&#237;as. Mientras que el segundo piso se iba a construir &#8220;el otro a&#241;o&#8221; o cuando hubiese forma. En muchos casos, el otro a&#241;o llevaba, la &#250;ltima vez que contaron, veintitr&#233;s a&#241;os seguidos siendo el otro a&#241;o.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lo m&#225;s hermoso de todo este asunto es que nadie en el barrio Las Palmas le ve&#237;a nada de raro a eso. Las varillas apuntando al cielo eran parte del paisaje, como el cipr&#233;s del vecino o el perro que ladraba a los carros. De vez en cuando alguien miraba hacia arriba durante el almuerzo y dec&#237;a, con la boca llena de arroz: &#8220;alg&#250;n d&#237;a, le metemos el segundo piso&#8221;. Mientras todos asent&#237;an, con la solemnidad de quien repite un credo religioso.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ese mismo paisaje se repite, con variaciones m&#237;nimas, desde Tijuana hasta Ushuaia. Cambia el ladrillo por bloque, el arroz por asado, o el cipr&#233;s por palmeras. Pero las varillas siguen siendo las mismas. Somos el &#250;nico continente que convirti&#243; el &#243;xido en un estilo arquitect&#243;nico.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Aqu&#237; viene la tesis de esta Toma, as&#237; que t&#233;nganse fino: <strong>Esas casas no son un problema de plata, son un mapa de c&#243;mo los latinoamericanos pensamos el futuro.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">No es que tengamos prohibido so&#241;ar, el que calcul&#243; esas columnas vio un segundo piso, y hasta un tercero y una terraza. Lo que pasa es que en LATAM aprendimos a so&#241;ar en c&#225;mara lenta, por etapas, por cuotas, &#8220;cuando se pueda, o alg&#250;n d&#237;a&#8221;. Convertimos el <em>incrementalismo</em> en virtud teol&#243;gica: despacio que voy de prisa, m&#225;s vale p&#225;jaro en mano, no hay que dar papaya (para mis lectores no colombianos: <em>dar papaya</em> es exponerse innecesariamente al peligro; y s&#237; se&#241;ores, en Colombia una fruta tropical es doctrina de seguridad nacional).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora bien, &#191;y d&#243;nde est&#225; el problema?&#8230; por esto existe FUTOPIX, es que con la entrada del nuevo siglo, <strong>el mundo dej&#243; de moverse por etapas.</strong> La regi&#243;n que mejor domina el arte de construir por goteo se detuvo, sin darse cuenta (o tal vez s&#237;), encima de las d&#233;cadas menos lineales de la historia.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Pilas pues, no se me duerman, que esto se compone.</p><h4><strong><span>El Pensamiento Lineal, en un Mundo que se Mueve en Curvas</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Me gusta mucho llevarlos a reflexionar sobre otras entregas, en la Toma 6 les dije que el futuro es un sistema, no una l&#237;nea de tiempo. Hoy quiero empujar esa idea un paso m&#225;s all&#225;, hasta que le saquemos chispas. <strong>Una de las caracter&#237;sticas de los sistemas es que estos no avanzan por acumulaci&#243;n suave (darwinismo); sino que por el contrario avanzan dando saltos.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Una olla con agua se calienta grado a grado, muy civilizadamente, hasta que a los 100 hace algo escandaloso y pasa a convertirse en otra cosa. El bamb&#250; chino pasa cinco a&#241;os sin asomar la cabeza y luego crece treinta metros en seis semanas. La arena cae grano a grano sobre la pila hasta que un solo grano, uno, an&#243;nimo, id&#233;ntico a los dem&#225;s, provoca una avalancha. La naturaleza se mueve de forma incremental hasta que deja de serlo, y cuando deja de serlo no avisa, <em>&#8220;shit happens&#8221;</em>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Nosotros, en cambio, vamos por la vida planeando como si el universo fuera un archivo de Excel, felices viviendo en el <em>cartesianismo</em>, o contrad&#237;ganme si pueden cuando alguien repite esta liturgia corporativa, &#8220;el presupuesto del a&#241;o entrante es igual al de este a&#241;o m&#225;s el 5%.&#8221; El plan estrat&#233;gico a cinco a&#241;os es una l&#237;nea que sube mansamente hacia la derecha, como quien no quiere la cosa. La &#8220;visi&#243;n 2030&#8221; es la misma foto de hoy con mejor iluminaci&#243;n (ojo, que yo he facilitado decenas de esos ejercicios en empresas de toda la regi&#243;n. S&#233; de qu&#233; hablo. He visto comit&#233;s enteros discutir durante tres horas si el crecimiento del pr&#243;ximo a&#241;o ser&#225; del 4% o del 6%, en industrias que est&#225;n a pocos meses de ser volteadas como una arepa al fuego por la IA. Son conversaciones a veces tan est&#233;riles como discutir el color de las cortinas del Titanic, con una presentaci&#243;n en PowerPoint).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">El pensamiento lineal no es solamente un asunto tonto, es extremadamente c&#243;modo. La l&#237;nea recta es la distancia m&#225;s corta entre dos puntos y tambi&#233;n entre una junta directiva y su zona de confort. Pero <strong>los mapas lineales solo funcionan en territorios lineales</strong>, y el territorio que viene: IA, energ&#237;a, espacio, dinero programable, es cualquier cosa menos una l&#237;nea recta.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7ccV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75723bef-1d04-4fdf-8773-e4f4be756d86_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!7ccV!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75723bef-1d04-4fdf-8773-e4f4be756d86_1672x941.png 424w, 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piensa dos veces: puedes lograr mucho m&#225;s, en mucho menos tiempo, con una fracci&#243;n del esfuerzo que est&#225;s invirtiendo. Pero no haciendo &#8220;m&#225;s de lo mismo con m&#225;s ganas,&#8221; esa es la trampa de atraer un burro con zanahorias, sino cambiando la f&#237;sica del modelo. <strong>Los saltos cu&#225;nticos no son la versi&#243;n turbo del progreso gradual, son otra categor&#237;a que describe la f&#237;sica del movimiento.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">La lista de instrucciones en el librito parec&#237;a escrita para trolear gerentes de empresas latinoamericanas, y por eso me encanta. L&#233;anla bien despacio:</p><p><span>&#8226; </span><em>Quit trying harder</em>: Deja de esforzarte m&#225;s (Una herej&#237;a absoluta en el continente del &#8220;&#233;chele ganas o trabajar, trabajar y trabajar mijito&#8221;).</p><p><span>&#8226; </span><em>Ignore conventional approaches</em>: Ignora las aproximaciones convencionales. (En la tierra del &#8220;as&#237; lo hemos hecho siempre y nos ha funcionado&#8221;).</p><p><span>&#8226; </span><em>Make your move before you&#8217;re ready</em>: Mu&#233;vete antes de estar listo. (En la civilizaci&#243;n del &#8220;cuando se pueda, montemos el negocio y despu&#233;s averiguamos en qu&#233; l&#237;o estamos metidos&#8221;).</p><p><span>&#8226; </span><em>Seek failure</em>: Busca el fracaso. (En una cultura donde quebrar una empresa te convierte en perdedor, un llor&#243;n o un apestado social, tema del que ya chillamos juntos en la Toma 30).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">La frase de Pritchett que me persigue desde entonces, la que deber&#237;a de contar con una placa en todas las oficinas de planeaci&#243;n de la regi&#243;n, es esta: <strong>&#8220;la mayor&#237;a de los muros que te detienen no est&#225;n hechos de ladrillo; est&#225;n hechos de creencias.&#8221;</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Cuidado: no dice que los problemas sean imaginarios. Los problemas son reales y muchos de ellos est&#225;n bien repuesticos. El costo del capital, la infraestructura, la burocracia que te pide autenticar la fotocopia de la autenticaci&#243;n. Lo imaginario es la barrera: esa voz interior, heredada y colectiva, que dice que a nosotros nos toca avanzar de a poquito, que el salto es para otros, para los gringos, para los chinos, para los coreanos, que primero hay que &#8220;estar listos antes de saltar&#8221;.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Spoiler: <strong>nadie ha estado listo jam&#225;s.</strong> Los que saltaron tampoco lo estaban. Saltaron, y en el aire les fue creciendo el paraca&#237;das.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png" width="1456" height="819" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/e3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2184387,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.futopix.com/i/207718867?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I-9-!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe3b4d009-88ee-4e3e-abb5-ec925efc7561_1672x941.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong><span>El Tablero de Se&#241;ales</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">&#161;Bueno! Basta ya de filosof&#237;a. Aqu&#237; es donde su futurista de cabecera deja el sombrero de fil&#243;sofo y saca el tablero de se&#241;ales, porque en FUTOPIX las tesis se defienden con datos o no se defienden, si no hay dato, es ruido. Los datos de los &#250;ltimos doce meses muestran algo francamente extra&#241;o: <strong>Am&#233;rica Latina ya se comporta, en varios frentes, como una regi&#243;n en pleno vuelo de salto, solo que no ha actualizado su autoimagen.</strong> Somos como ese amigo que va al gimnasio un a&#241;o entero y se sigue vistiendo con camisetas talla XL &#8220;porque &#233;l es gordito&#8221;. Los m&#250;sculos ya est&#225;n; pero el espejo mental sigue en 2005.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Como muchos de ustedes ya me siguen hace casi un a&#241;o, sabr&#225;n entender que lo que m&#225;s me apasiona es aprender a leer lo que en futurismo llamamos <em>se&#241;ales d&#233;biles</em>. Siendo as&#237;, vamos al grano para interpretar se&#241;al por se&#241;al.</p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 1: La IA se est&#225; mudando al sur (literalmente)</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">En el primer trimestre de 2026, Am&#233;rica Latina creci&#243; 41,3% interanual en capacidad de centros de datos, seg&#250;n el <em>Global Data Center Trends</em> de CBRE. Lean bien: no fuimos la regi&#243;n que m&#225;s creci&#243; &#8220;para nuestro tama&#241;o&#8221;, ni la que m&#225;s creci&#243; &#8220;considerando las circunstancias&#8221; (esa muletilla condescendiente con la que siempre nos califican, como diciendo &#8220;qu&#233; bien nada, para ser perro&#8221;). <strong>Fuimos la regi&#243;n l&#237;der mundial en nuevas instalaciones.</strong> Punto. Nada m&#225;s que agregar.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">S&#227;o Paulo ya concentra m&#225;s de 500 megavatios de capacidad. Quer&#233;taro creci&#243; 450% en un a&#241;o, no, no es error de tipeo, y s&#237;, revis&#233; tres veces. Santiago, Bogot&#225;, Montevideo y Asunci&#243;n aparecen en los mapas de los fondos de inversi&#243;n globales que hace cinco a&#241;os no habr&#237;an podido se&#241;alar Paraguay en un mapa ni con un GPS.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#191;La raz&#243;n? Deliciosa iron&#237;a: Norteam&#233;rica se qued&#243; sin espacio. La vacancia de <em>data centers</em> en Virginia del Norte es del 0,3%, en cristiano: no cabe un servidor m&#225;s ni en la cocina de los empleados, y la inteligencia artificial global necesita desesperadamente d&#243;nde vivir, qu&#233; comer (energ&#237;a) y qu&#233; beber (agua y refrigeraci&#243;n). &#191;Y qui&#233;n tiene tierra, sol, viento, agua y ganas? &#161;&#161;Exacto!! <strong>El cerebro de la IA mundial se est&#225; mudando al sur.</strong> Eso no es progreso incremental. Eso es un reordenamiento del mapa.</p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 2: Argentina, el fen&#243;meno barrial que dej&#243; de ser barrial</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Confesi&#243;n regional: durante d&#233;cadas, Argentina fue nuestro chiste interno favorito. El pa&#237;s que <em>defaulte&#243;</em> m&#225;s veces que un estudiante moroso, la econom&#237;a que los profesores usaban en clase como &#8220;ejemplo de lo que no se debe hacer&#8221; (lo digo con cari&#241;o con un pa&#237;s al que amo, donde estudi&#233;, donde tengo hermanos argentinos, ustedes saben que los quiero; adem&#225;s ustedes hacen lo mismo con nosotros, y con ustedes mismos, porque para autoiron&#237;a nadie les gana).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Pues el chiste dej&#243; de ser chiste: Argentina acaba de romper su r&#233;cord hist&#243;rico de exportaciones de energ&#237;a y miner&#237;a, m&#225;s de US$16.000 millones, con Vaca Muerta produciendo ya m&#225;s de la mitad del crudo y el gas del pa&#237;s, y proyectando para 2026 el mayor super&#225;vit energ&#233;tico de su historia. S&#250;menle el <em>tri&#225;ngulo del litio</em> que comparte con Bolivia y Chile, el metal sin el cual no hay bater&#237;a, no hay carro el&#233;ctrico, no hay transici&#243;n energ&#233;tica que valga, y resulta que <strong>el &#8220;paciente cr&#243;nico&#8221; de Am&#233;rica Latina est&#225; sentado sobre la despensa de la econom&#237;a del siglo XXI.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sesenta a&#241;os oyendo que la regi&#243;n est&#225; &#8220;condenada por sus recursos naturales&#8221;, y va a resultar que los recursos eran las fichas de p&#243;ker y nosotros no sab&#237;amos que est&#225;bamos sentados en la mesa importante del casino.</p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 3: Cohetes con acento</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Diciembre de 2025, costa de Maranh&#227;o, Brasil. Un cohete coreano se enciende sobre la plataforma de Alc&#225;ntara, la base que Brasil construy&#243; en los a&#241;os ochenta y que llevaba cuatro d&#233;cadas esperando su momento, como esas vajillas finas que las abuelas guardan &#8220;para una ocasi&#243;n especial&#8221; que nunca llega. El cohete despega, sube unos segundos... y se estrella.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ya los estoy oyendo, &#8220;t&#237;pico, hasta los cohetes se nos caen&#8221;. Pues no, queridos amigos, error de lectura. En la industria espacial los cohetes se caen como parte del oficio; preg&#250;ntenle a SpaceX cu&#225;ntos Falcon convirti&#243; en fuegos artificiales antes de aprender a aterrizarlos. La noticia de ese d&#237;a no fue la explosi&#243;n, fue que la vajilla por fin sali&#243; del armario. Alc&#225;ntara entr&#243; al negocio, y no es una base cualquiera, est&#225; a 2,3 grados de la l&#237;nea ecuatorial, y en bienes ra&#237;ces espaciales eso es un <em>penthouse</em> frente al mar. Lanzar desde el ecuador aprovecha el envi&#243;n de la rotaci&#243;n terrestre, m&#225;s carga &#250;til, menos combustible, mejores costos. <strong>El mejor lote del planeta para salir del planeta llevaba cuarenta a&#241;os desocupado.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">No es solo Brasil, la fiebre es regional. Ecuador desarrolla un puerto espacial privado cerca de Guayaquil; la Rep&#250;blica Dominicana anunci&#243; el suyo con una inversi&#243;n de US$600 millones; Per&#250; declar&#243; su <em>spaceport</em> &#8220;de inter&#233;s nacional&#8221; en marzo de 2026. Hasta la ALCE, la Agencia Espacial Latinoamericana (s&#237;, existe, no es un chiste de WhatsApp), ya celebr&#243; su primera asamblea general. De la jugada colombiana en este tablero les habl&#233; largo en &#8220;Space Coast Colombia&#8221; (Toma 36, para los que llegaron tarde: vayan, lean, yo aqu&#237; los espero).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Cierro con la iron&#237;a que me quita el sue&#241;o. <strong>La misma geograf&#237;a ecuatorial que durante 500 a&#241;os fue nuestra condena extractiva (oro, caucho, banano, coca, escojan su siglo) resulta ser la puerta de embarque natural de la humanidad hacia el espacio.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>Se&#241;al 4: El dinero ya salt&#243; primero</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Nubank y Mercado Libre no son &#8220;<em>startups</em> exitosas&#8221;. Llamar <em>startup</em> a Mercado Libre es como llamarle &#8220;muchacho promesa&#8221; a Messi. Son instituciones continentales que lograron en una d&#233;cada lo que la banca tradicional no logr&#243; en un siglo: meter a decenas de millones de latinoamericanos al sistema financiero, sin corbata, sin fila y sin que el gerente de la sucursal te mirara por encima de las gafas para preguntarte qui&#233;n te est&#225; recomendando.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Mercado Libre creci&#243; su facturaci&#243;n 49% en el primer trimestre de 2026. Cuarenta y nueve por ciento, a su tama&#241;o. Eso no es una curva incremental; eso es la evidencia de que <strong>cuando el salto encuentra una grieta en el sistema, el continente entero se cuela por ella en estampida.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>La se&#241;al inc&#243;moda (porque un tablero honesto tambi&#233;n las trae)</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Ahora, el balde de agua fr&#237;a, porque ustedes no me leen para que les sobe la espalda, como le digo a muchos de mis clientes, &#8220;a m&#237; no me contratan para que le diga a todo que s&#237; y que todo est&#225; lindo&#8221;. <strong>Solo 1 de cada 10 empresas latinoamericanas usa IA, y apenas el 6% le captura valor significativo</strong>, seg&#250;n el estudio de CCLATAM publicado este mismo mes. Casi la mitad de la regi&#243;n ya tiene banda ancha de alta velocidad, la carretera est&#225; pavimentada, pero la adopci&#243;n sigue en pa&#241;ales. El mismo estudio calcula que acelerar podr&#237;a sumar 1,3 puntos de crecimiento anual de aqu&#237; a 2030 y una generaci&#243;n entera de empleos formales.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#191;Ven la asimetr&#237;a? Estamos en la casa de mi abuela otra vez, pero a escala continental: <strong>el *hardware* del salto ya est&#225; instalado. 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fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong><span>La Antropolog&#237;a del Goteo</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Perd&#243;nenme si en esta parte del texto me pongo un poco denso, pero aqu&#237; est&#225; el coraz&#243;n del asunto, y ustedes saben que en FUTOPIX no le sacamos el cuerpo a las preguntas dif&#237;ciles. La pregunta dif&#237;cil es: si las se&#241;ales est&#225;n ah&#237;, si el capital est&#225; llegando, si la f&#237;sica ya dijo que s&#237;&#8230; &#191;por qu&#233; seguimos pensando por cuotas?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">La respuesta no est&#225; en la econom&#237;a, est&#225; en la antropolog&#237;a. El incrementalismo latinoamericano no es pereza ni falta de visi&#243;n. <strong>Es una tecnolog&#237;a de supervivencia perfeccionada durante cinco siglos.</strong> Funciona tan bien que ya ni la vemos, como el pez que no sabe qu&#233; es el agua. D&#233;jenme desarmarla pieza por pieza.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Pieza 1: La memoria de la hacienda.</strong> Durante trescientos a&#241;os, la econom&#237;a colonial castig&#243; la iniciativa y premi&#243; la obediencia. Los excedentes generados no eran tuyos, eran del <em>encomendero</em>, del virrey, de la corona. Ambicionar en grande era, literalmente, peligroso. El que prosperaba demasiado llamaba una atenci&#243;n que nadie quer&#237;a llamar. La cultura nos ha ense&#241;ado que esas memorias no se borran con actas de independencia. Se heredan en la mesa del comedor, en frases como &#8220;nosotros no somos de esos&#8221; o &#8220;eso es mucho para uno&#8221;. La hacienda se acab&#243;; pero el <em>software</em> de la hacienda sigue instalado en la memoria cultural y recibiendo actualizaciones en autom&#225;tico.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Pieza 2: La volatilidad como clima.</strong> Preg&#250;ntenle a un abuelo argentino qu&#233; pas&#243; con sus ahorros en 1989, o en el 2001. A un venezolano, qu&#233; pas&#243; con su empresa en tiempos del socialismo chavista. A un colombiano de los noventa, qu&#233; le pasaba al que sobresal&#237;a demasiado. Generaciones enteras aprendieron, en carne propia y ajena, que la hiperinflaci&#243;n, la expropiaci&#243;n o la violencia pueden borrar en un a&#241;o lo construido en veinte. &#191;La respuesta racional a ese entorno? Es exactamente la que ya hemos dado en tantos FUTOPIX, no hay que apostarlo todo, hay que diversificar en ladrillo y construir por etapas. Hay que dejar las varillas puestas por si acaso, pero no hay que endeudarse por el segundo piso. <strong>El incrementalismo ha sido, durante mucho tiempo, la jugada correcta.</strong> Ese es el detalle que se nos olvida cuando nos autoflagelamos. No es que fu&#233;semos tontos, hemos jugado a la prudencia en un casino con la ruleta cargada.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Pieza 3: El &#233;xito como sospecha.</strong> Este es mi favorito, por lo retorcido de su naturaleza. En buena parte de la regi&#243;n, el que crece r&#225;pido &#8220;algo debe o por encima de alguien pas&#243;&#8221;. La contabilidad moral popular no pregunta cu&#225;nto tienes sino en cu&#225;nto tiempo lo hiciste: <strong>fortuna lenta es honrada, fortuna r&#225;pida es sospechosa.</strong> (D&#233;cadas de econom&#237;as ilegales regando plata r&#225;pida ayudaron a cimentar la ecuaci&#243;n, seamos justos.) &#191;El resultado? El ambicioso leg&#237;timo aprende a camuflarse, a crecer calladito, a manejar un carro un poquito peor del que puede pagar. Tenemos emprendedores practicando el arte marcial de parecer menos exitosos de lo que son, mientras en Silicon Valley practican el arte contrario con id&#233;ntica dedicaci&#243;n.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Pieza 4: La viveza defensiva.</strong> Esta s&#237; es la octava maravilla: la c&#233;lebre &#8220;malicia&#8221;, la famosa <em>malicia ind&#237;gena</em> de la que hablamos en Colombia con orgullo. Este tema merecer&#237;a su propia Toma, es algo as&#237; como una inteligencia de corto plazo llevada al virtuosismo, leer al otro, oler la trampa, sobrevivir el d&#237;a, salir vivo de la reuni&#243;n. Para muchos es un tema brillante, pero es exactamente lo contrario de la inteligencia que exige un salto, que es <em>inteligencia de exposici&#243;n</em>: comprometerse en p&#250;blico, apostar a largo plazo, dar papaya estrat&#233;gicamente. El vivo vive del bobo, dice el refr&#225;n; el problema es que en la econom&#237;a exponencial el &#8220;bobo&#8221; que apost&#243; diez a&#241;os a una sola cosa termina compr&#225;ndole el barrio entero al vivo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#191;Ven el patr&#243;n com&#250;n? Ninguna de estas piezas es un defecto de car&#225;cter. Todas son adaptaciones racionales a un entorno que ya no existe del todo. Es la trampa perfecta, <strong>seguimos corriendo *software* de escasez sobre un *hardware* de abundancia.</strong> Somos un continente con procesador nuevo y sistema operativo de 1970, y despu&#233;s nos preguntamos por qu&#233; se nos congela la pantalla cada vez que intentamos abrir un sue&#241;o grande.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UagW!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa94a4ee5-9db9-4bcc-beed-cb22c8c3f82f_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UagW!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa94a4ee5-9db9-4bcc-beed-cb22c8c3f82f_1672x941.png 424w, 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Un pa&#237;s reci&#233;n partido en dos por la guerra, sin petr&#243;leo, sin litio, sin Amazonas, sin ecuador geogr&#225;fico, con la mitad de su capital reducida a escombros. Los organismos internacionales de la &#233;poca lo clasificaban, con esa delicadeza que los caracteriza, como caso perdido. Hoy, una potencia mundial en semiconductores, y sus cohetes, los mismos que se estrellan en Alc&#226;ntara mientras aprenden, competir&#225;n en la econom&#237;a espacial, en una generaci&#243;n.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Singapur, 1965.</strong> Expulsado de Malasia (ni siquiera se independiz&#243;: lo echaron, que es el origen nacional menos glamuroso imaginable). Una isla sin agua potable propia, sin ej&#233;rcito, sin recursos, con tensiones &#233;tnicas. Lee Kuan Yew llor&#243; en televisi&#243;n nacional el d&#237;a de la &#8220;independencia&#8221;. Hoy, uno de los PIB per c&#225;pita m&#225;s altos del planeta.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>Emiratos &#193;rabes, 1971.</strong> Un desierto con perlas, la industria de las perlas&#8230; adem&#225;s, ya quebrada, y algo de petr&#243;leo que sab&#237;an finito. Decidieron comportarse como si fueran un <em>hub</em> global de aviaci&#243;n, comercio y turismo antes de serlo. El mundo se rio de la torre m&#225;s alta del planeta construida en la mitad de la nada. La torre sigue ah&#237;; los que se rieron hacen escala en Dub&#225;i para tomarse fotos y comprar chocolates.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">&#191;Qu&#233; tienen estos tres que no tengamos nosotros? Porque recursos no es, nosotros tenemos m&#225;s. Ubicaci&#243;n no es, la nuestra es mejor. Talento no es, llevamos un siglo export&#225;ndolo al mundo (pregunten en cualquier hospital de Madrid o en cualquier equipo de ingenier&#237;a de Silicon Valley y hasta en la NASA).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lo que todos ellos tienen es una sola cosa: <strong>la decisi&#243;n cultural de comportarse como si el salto fuera posible antes de saltar.</strong> Construyeron la expectativa de la discontinuidad. Le apostaron todo al segundo piso sin esperar a &#8220;cuando se pueda&#8221;. Hicieron, a escala nacional, exactamente lo que Pritchett receta a escala personal, se movieron antes de estar listos.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Nosotros, mientras tanto, perfeccionamos la expectativa contraria, la de las varillas oxidadas. Las expectativas, como sabe cualquier antrop&#243;logo, y cualquier abuela, <strong>son profec&#237;as autocumplidas con buena ortograf&#237;a.</strong></p><h3><em><strong><span>Backcasting</span></strong></em><strong><span> | La Vista Desde 2035</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Hagamos el ejercicio favorito de esta casa: caminar hacia atr&#225;s desde el futuro. No preguntemos &#8220;&#191;qu&#233; va a pasar?&#8221; esa es la pregunta del espectador. Preguntemos: <strong>si en 2035 Am&#233;rica Latina fuera reconocida como la regi&#243;n que dio el salto, &#191;qu&#233; tuvo que haber pasado en cada estaci&#243;n del camino?</strong> Esa es la pregunta del arquitecto.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2035.</strong> La regi&#243;n opera tres corredores espaciales comerciales (Alc&#226;ntara, Guayaquil, el Caribe). Exporta c&#243;mputo de IA alimentado por energ&#237;a limpia y barata, el sol de Atacama, el viento de La Guajira, el gas de Vaca Muerta convertidos en el nuevo caf&#233;, lo que el mundo nos compra sin regatear. La clase media digital del continente creci&#243; sobre rieles <em>fintech</em> propios, no prestados.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2031.</strong> Tres o cuatro ciudades latinoamericanas se consolidan como <em>hubs</em> mundiales de entrenamiento de modelos de IA. El &#8220;milagro&#8221; tiene explicaci&#243;n aburrida, energ&#237;a barata + tierra disponible + husos horarios compatibles con Estados Unidos + una d&#233;cada de j&#243;venes formados a la carrera. El milagro se explica solo: &#8220;alguien hizo la tarea aburrida diez a&#241;os atr&#225;s.&#8221;</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2028.</strong> La adopci&#243;n de IA empresarial pasa del 10% al 40%. No por decreto ni por seminarios de transformaci&#243;n digital con <em>coffee break</em>, sino porque una generaci&#243;n de empresas nativas de IA, fundadas entre 2024 y 2026 por gente que no pidi&#243; permiso (como dice Nicol&#225;s Fern&#225;ndez), obliga al resto a moverse o morir. <strong>El mercado es el &#250;nico consultor al que todos le hacen caso.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>2026.</strong> Es decir, &#161;hoy! Es decir, usted, leyendo este panfleto digital. Alguien decide dejar de esperar a &#8220;estar listo&#8221;. Empresas, familias, individuos, n&#243;tese que no dije gobiernos, y la omisi&#243;n es deliberada, los gobiernos de la regi&#243;n llegar&#225;n tarde y con discurso, como llegan a todo, son los &#250;ltimos vagones del tren.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">El <em>backcasting</em> revela algo que incomoda m&#225;s que cualquier pron&#243;stico: <strong>el eslab&#243;n cr&#237;tico de toda la cadena no es tecnol&#243;gico, ni financiero, ni regulatorio. Son las decisiones que tomemos en el 2026.</strong> Todo lo dem&#225;s ya tiene se&#241;ales activas, capital en movimiento y f&#237;sica a favor. La &#250;nica pieza que falta es la m&#225;s barata y la m&#225;s escasa, alguien que se atreva a construir el segundo piso &#161;&#161;YA!!</p><h3><strong><span>El Portafolio del Saltador</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Como siempre en FUTOPIX, el diagn&#243;stico sin receta es chisme fino, y yo no vine a chismosear (bueno, un poquito, pero no solamente). Pritchett insiste en algo que suscribo con las dos manos: <em>trust in the power of pursuit</em>, en criollo: <strong>&#8220;el aprendizaje no llega prepar&#225;ndose, llega persiguiendo.&#8221;</strong> No conozco a nadie que haya aprendido a nadar por correspondencia y sin mojarse los tobillos.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As&#237; que aqu&#237; va el portafolio del saltador de obst&#225;culos, en tres niveles, del m&#225;s peque&#241;o al m&#225;s ambicioso. Elige tu dosis, pero elige alguna cosa.</p><h4><strong><span>Nivel 1 &#8212; Los Experimentos (este trimestre, s&#237;, este que ya empez&#243;).</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Si tienes empresa: m&#243;ntate en la estad&#237;stica correcta. Recuerda el dato: 90% de las empresas de la regi&#243;n no usa IA, y del 10% que la usa, solo el 6% le saca valor real. Traducci&#243;n: <strong>la ventaja competitiva m&#225;s barata de la historia de Am&#233;rica Latina est&#225; regalada en este momento</strong>, y se acaba en dos o tres a&#241;os, cuando usar IA sea como tener p&#225;gina web: obligatorio y aburrido. No necesitas un &#8220;plan de transformaci&#243;n digital&#8221; de 18 meses con consultores de apellido compuesto. Necesitas un proceso real, uno solo: cotizaciones, inventarios, servicio al cliente, lo que m&#225;s te duela, d&#233;jalo automatizado este mes, medido el siguiente, escalado el tercero.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Si eres un <em>solopreneur</em>, apr&#233;ndete una herramienta de IA hasta que te d&#233; pena lo bueno que te has vuelto en ella. En la Toma 32 les cont&#233; c&#243;mo una IA me ayud&#243; a cerrar una herida de veinticinco a&#241;os y construir lo que llevaba una vida aplazando; no fue un asunto de combusti&#243;n espont&#225;nea, fue insistencia, de leer, de no entender ni p&#237;o, y en vez de renunciar, seguir intent&#225;ndolo. <strong>El costo de experimentar nunca ha sido tan bajo en la historia de la humanidad. El costo de no experimentar nunca ha sido tan alto.</strong> Esa tijera se abre cada mes que pasas &#8220;viendo a ver qu&#233; pasa&#8221;.</p><h4><strong><span>Nivel 2 &#8212; Apuestas estrat&#233;gicas (2 a 3 a&#241;os).</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Posici&#243;nate en la intersecci&#243;n de las cuatro se&#241;ales: <strong>energ&#237;a + c&#243;mputo + espacio + dinero digital.</strong> Aqu&#237; d&#233;jame ser muy claro, porque este punto se malinterpreta: no necesitas fundar la empresa de cohetes. Cuando hay fiebre del oro, dec&#237;a el cl&#225;sico, vende picas y palas; cuando hay fiebre espacial y de c&#243;mputo, vende todo lo que esa fiebre necesita: servicios especializados, datos, talento entrenado, tierra bien ubicada, educaci&#243;n t&#233;cnica, log&#237;stica, mantenimiento, seguridad, comida buena cerca del <em>data center</em> (no se r&#237;an: pregunten cu&#225;nto facturan las pizzer&#237;as cercanas a los mayores <em>datacenters</em> de USA).</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Las varillas ya est&#225;n puestas, el capital global ya est&#225; mirando el lote. Con toda seguridad alguien va a construir ese segundo piso. <strong>La &#250;nica pregunta estrat&#233;gica de esta d&#233;cada es si en la escritura va a aparecer tu nombre o el de un fondo de inversi&#243;n.</strong></p><h4><strong><span>Nivel 3 &#8212; </span></strong><em><strong><span>Moonshots</span></strong></em><strong><span> (10 a&#241;os).</span></strong></h4><p style="text-align: justify;">Elige un dominio donde la regi&#243;n tenga ventaja f&#237;sica innegociable, y subrayo f&#237;sica, porque las ventajas regulatorias van y vienen con cada elecci&#243;n, pero <strong>la geograf&#237;a no hace campa&#241;a.</strong> Latitud ecuatorial para lanzamientos, litio, sol de desierto, agua dulce, biodiversidad, husos horarios alineados con Norteam&#233;rica. Comprom&#233;tete de manera desproporcionada, inc&#243;moda, dif&#237;cil de explicar en el almuerzo del domingo.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Pritchett lo dice mejor que yo: los saltos cu&#225;nticos exigen <em>choose a different set of risks</em> (elegir un set diferente de riesgos), no eliminar el riesgo (eso no existe, es un cuento que venden los bancos). <strong>El riesgo del incrementalista es lento, silencioso e invisible: se llama irrelevancia</strong>, y cuando se manifiesta ya no hay nada que hacer. <strong>El riesgo del saltador es r&#225;pido, ruidoso y visible: se llama fracaso</strong> (soy experto en ese tipo), y tiene una propiedad m&#225;gica que el otro no tiene, &#161;uno siempre se recupera! De un cohete estrellado se aprende; de veinte a&#241;os de &#8220;cuando se pueda&#8221;, no queda ni mierda de aprendizaje.</p><h3><strong><span>El Club de las Varillas</span></strong></h3><p style="text-align: justify;">Vuelvo al balc&#243;n de la casa de mi abuela, porque me niego a dejar esa imagen como s&#237;mbolo de derrota. Adem&#225;s, los domingos, tarde o temprano, todos volvemos al balc&#243;n de la abuela.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As&#243;mense conmigo otra vez. Desde ah&#237; se ven las casas del barrio Las Palmas con sus varillas apuntando al cielo. F&#237;jense en el detalle que se nos pas&#243; a todos durante los a&#241;os de almuerzos. Alguien calcul&#243; las columnas de las casas para soportar un piso que no exist&#237;a. Alguien pag&#243; hierro de m&#225;s, cemento de m&#225;s, cimientos de m&#225;s, en el momento de mayor escasez, por pura fe estructural en un futuro que no pod&#237;a demostrar. <strong>Las varillas no son el monumento a lo que no fuimos. Son la prueba de carga de lo que siempre supimos que pod&#237;amos llegar a ser.</strong></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Esto se los digo con mis dos sombreros puestos. Con el de antrop&#243;logo, despu&#233;s de m&#225;s de veinte a&#241;os de trabajo de campo del R&#237;o Bravo a la Patagonia, les certifico que el incrementalismo latinoamericano nunca fue falta de ambici&#243;n. Es la ambici&#243;n en c&#225;mara lenta, ambici&#243;n esperando el permiso de un entorno que durante siglos dijo que no. Con el de futurista les traigo la noticia por la que escrib&#237; esta Toma completa, as&#237; que l&#233;anla despacio: <strong>el entorno ya nos dio el permiso.</strong> El capital global busca nuestra energ&#237;a, la f&#237;sica vot&#243; por nuestro ecuador, la IA necesita nuestro suelo, nuestra agua y nuestro sol, y el dinero digital ya demostr&#243; que cuando saltamos, saltamos en estampida.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><strong>La &#250;nica pieza del sistema que sigue en modo &#8220;alg&#250;n d&#237;a&#8221; es la que llevamos entre las orejas.</strong> Esa, a diferencia de la infraestructura, no necesita financiaci&#243;n, ni licencia ambiental, ni socio estrat&#233;gico. Se actualiza gratis, hoy, con una sola decisi&#243;n.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">As&#237; que esta semana te dejo una tarea, y va en serio. Sube mentalmente a tu propio balc&#243;n. Todos tenemos uno: un proyecto engavetado, un talento subutilizado, una empresa que factura la d&#233;cima parte de lo que podr&#237;a, una regi&#243;n entera esperando &#8220;estar lista&#8221;. P&#225;rate ah&#237;, mira tus varillas oxidadas, y hazte la &#250;nica pregunta que separa a los que leen sobre el futuro de los que lo construyen:</p><h5><strong><span>&#191;Qu&#233; estoy construyendo por goteo que ya me est&#225; pidiendo dar el salto?</span></strong></h5><p style="text-align: justify;">No la respondas r&#225;pido, deja que te duela un poquito. Recuerda que las buenas preguntas son como el aj&#237;, tienen que picar antes de saber.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Cuando tengas la respuesta, escr&#237;bemela en los comentarios. Los leo todos, y las mejores historias de saltadores terminan, con permiso de sus autores, alimentando futuras Tomas. Porque este panfleto digital funciona exactamente como deber&#237;a funcionar la regi&#243;n. Aqu&#237; nadie est&#225; listo, todos estamos saltando, y el paraca&#237;das nos va creciendo en el aire, cuando aleteamos juntos.</p><h5 style="text-align: justify;"><strong>El futuro no es de los que lo predicen. Es de los que le meten diente a construir el segundo piso, hoy, &#161;YA!</strong></h5><p style="text-align: justify;">Nos leemos en la pr&#243;xima Toma, ya sabes, si esta te movi&#243; el piso (o el techo), comp&#225;rtela con ese amigo que lleva a&#241;os diciendo &#8220;el otro a&#241;o&#8221;.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">FUTOPIX | Futurismo para gente despierta. Si llegaste hasta aqu&#237; y todav&#237;a no te has suscrito, esa tambi&#233;n es una decisi&#243;n incremental que est&#225; pidiendo un salto: es gratis, es un clic, y se hace exactamente as&#237;, antes de estar listo.<br></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png 424w, 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height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Actualmente vengo trabajando en varios proyectos que envuelven la construcci&#243;n de modelos ontol&#243;gicos digitales para empresas distribuidoras de tecnolog&#237;a. Durante este proceso he tenido que devolverme con frecuencia a mis lecturas de estudiante de antropolog&#237;a, sobre todo a aquellas que explican los principios filos&#243;ficos de la historia y la filosof&#237;a de la ciencia. Un tema que me resultaba fascinante cuando era estudiante de antropolog&#237;a en la Universidad de Antioquia y que ahora, como profesional, ha tomado m&#225;s relevancia que nunca, sobre todo en aquellos escenarios donde la mayor&#237;a de las personas piensan que los antrop&#243;logos somos solo estudiantes de lo ex&#243;tico, mariguaneros y el comunistas.</p><p>En 1735, un sueco de veintiocho a&#241;os, hijo de un pastor luterano que cultivaba flores en el jard&#237;n de la rector&#237;a, public&#243; un folleto de once p&#225;ginas al cual llam&#243; <em>Systema Naturae</em>. En esas once p&#225;ginas, Carl Linnaeus se propuso algo que a cualquiera con dos dedos de frente le habr&#237;a parecido un delirio: <strong>ordenar toda la naturaleza</strong>. Los animales, las plantas, los minerales, en fin, todo lo vivo y buena parte de lo inerte, metido en cajones, subcajones y subsubcajones de cajones.</p><p>Linnaeus, o Linneo como se le conocer&#237;a posteriormente entre los hispanohablantes, no mostr&#243; ser muy humilde al respecto, ya que &#233;l se refer&#237;a a s&#237; mismo como <em>el segundo Ad&#225;n</em>, porque el primero, seg&#250;n el G&#233;nesis, hab&#237;a nombrado a los animales en el Ed&#233;n, y &#233;l en esta ocasi&#243;n ven&#237;a a renombrarlos con propiedad en nombre de la ciencia. En su tumba, localizada en la catedral de Uppsala, hay una frase que lo resume mejor que cualquier biograf&#237;a: <em>Deus creavit, Linnaeus disposuit</em>. <strong>Dios cre&#243;, Linneo organiz&#243;.</strong> Ese man no ten&#237;a problemas de autoestima.</p><p>Lo que nadie nos cuenta en clase de biolog&#237;a es que Linneo se equivoc&#243; a lo grande. En sus primeras ediciones meti&#243; a las ballenas en la misma categor&#237;a que los peces, puso a los humanos, sin sonrojarse, junto a los perezosos y los monos, en un caj&#243;n que llam&#243; <em>Anthropomorpha</em>. Con cada edici&#243;n del <em>Systema Naturae</em> que iba publicando correg&#237;a a la anterior: once p&#225;ginas en 1735 y, para la decimotercera edici&#243;n, ya contaba con tres mil. El hombre se pas&#243; la vida entera <strong>reestructurando su propia taxonom&#237;a</strong>, deprecando categor&#237;as, moviendo especies de un caj&#243;n a otro, pele&#225;ndose con colegas que insist&#237;an en que su orden no era el orden verdadero de Dios, sino m&#225;s bien el orden que le conven&#237;a a Linneo.</p><p>Ha pasado el tiempo. Casi trescientos a&#241;os despu&#233;s, cada modelo de IA que corre en el planeta, incluido el que te ayuda a redactar los correos, es un descendiente directo de la obsesi&#243;n de ese sueco arrogante. Todos los modelos necesitan, para no alucinar, exactamente lo que Linneo invent&#243;: una <strong>ontolog&#237;a</strong>. Un mapa expl&#237;cito de qu&#233; existe, c&#243;mo se llama y c&#243;mo se relaciona con todo lo dem&#225;s.</p><p>Esta toma es un ensayo sobre el arte m&#225;s antiguo del mundo disfrazado de la disciplina m&#225;s moderna de todas. Como dir&#237;a Kondr&#225;tiev, todo vuelve. Sobre todo, sobre por qu&#233; nombrar el mundo nunca fue un asunto de orden t&#233;cnico, sino una motivaci&#243;n profundamente humana. <strong>La IA no est&#225; volviendo obsoleto al que clasifica, lo est&#225; haciendo indispensable</strong></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sDWG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8ed0757-8637-4d7b-9485-82cefad05bb3_1672x941.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!sDWG!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa8ed0757-8637-4d7b-9485-82cefad05bb3_1672x941.png 424w, 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stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h3><strong>De los Nada-&#237;stas a los Nuevos Nada&#237;stas&#8230;</strong></h3><p>Empecemos por desmitificar al primer enemigo, porque aunque no me crean existe un enemigo que anda suelto y es capaz de hacer mucho da&#241;o. Hoy existe una tribu tecnol&#243;gica muy numerosa, ruidosa y bien financiada, que sostiene lo siguiente: ya el mundo no necesita estructurar nada, solo hay que tirar todos los datos crudos a un repositorio (<em>data lake</em>, suena mejor en ingl&#233;s, siempre suena mejor en ingl&#233;s para los esnobs), le metemos un modelo de lenguaje encima y que la m&#225;quina haga su trabajo. Cero ontolog&#237;a, cero disciplina, puro caos alimentando un cerebro estad&#237;stico que, m&#225;gicamente, entender&#225; las cosas. <strong>Es la versi&#243;n moderna de creer que si acumulas muchos libros en una biblioteca, la habitaci&#243;n autom&#225;ticamente se volver&#225; sabia.</strong></p><p>&#161;Pero saben qu&#233;! Las cosas no funcionan as&#237; de f&#225;cil. La raz&#243;n por la que no funcionan estos sancochos de data es la misma por la que la IA termina alucinando: <strong>cuando un modelo no tiene el mapa expl&#237;cito de todo lo que existe en el sistema y de c&#243;mo se relacionan sus partes, termina inventando.</strong> Rellena los vac&#237;os conceptuales con las suposiciones m&#225;s plausibles en lugar de usar informaci&#243;n relevante y verdadera. Un modelo de razonamiento sin ontolog&#237;a es como un pasante brillante y sin supervisi&#243;n: te va a dar respuestas seguras acerca de proveedores que no existen y va a enviar mensajes a empresas que cerraron hace a&#241;os.</p><p>Una ontolog&#237;a es, sin rodeos, <strong>la disciplina de decidir qu&#233; existe en el mundo de una organizaci&#243;n antes de dejar que la m&#225;quina razone sobre &#233;l.</strong> Esto es lo primero que hay que entender y lo primero que casi todos se saltan. Por esto no comenzamos desarrollando los conceptos, iniciamos entendiendo el prop&#243;sito.</p><p>Antes de escribir una sola clase, antes de dibujar el primer nodo, si&#233;ntate y escribe para qu&#233; diablos sirve esto. Qu&#233; preguntas debe responder, qu&#233; sistemas debe conectar, qu&#233; decisiones debe soportar. Los ingenieros de conocimiento tienen un nombre para esto: <em>competency questions</em> (preguntas de competencia). Consultas concretas que el modelo terminado debe poder contestar. &#191;Qu&#233; proveedores env&#237;an el componente X a la planta Y? Esa clase de cosas.</p><p>Parece trivial, pero no lo es, es la diferencia entre construir algo y modelarlo para siempre. <strong>Sin preguntas de competencia, no tienes ni el borde de tu territorio ni tu suite de pruebas.</strong> Conozco a un personaje v&#237;ctima de ello, yo mismo. Me he pasado meses &#8220;modelando un dominio&#8221;, puliendo la ontolog&#237;a perfecta, desarrollando jerarqu&#237;as elegant&#237;simas, y como resultado un sistema que nunca entrega nada, porque nunca supo cu&#225;ndo estaba terminado. Es el mismo instinto que en la <a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">TOMA #10</a> llam&#233; &#8220;pensamiento de primeros principios&#8221;, pero en este caso se trata de un modelo pervertido: <strong>un modelo de primeros principios sin prop&#243;sito es una forma de alucinaci&#243;n intelectual con diagramas.</strong></p><p>Empieza por realizarte preguntas. Las preguntas son la frontera y son el examen.</p><p>El segundo enemigo es un hermano gemelo del primero: <strong>el ego de pretender reinventarlo todo.</strong> Me encanta cuando los ingenieros quieren apropiarse de todo lo que no es matem&#225;ticas y se atascan en las aguas de las ciencias blandas, porque siempre han despreciado la filosof&#237;a como la mam&#225; de la ciencia y al final terminan aceptando que, sin el pensamiento filos&#243;fico, la ingenier&#237;a quedar&#237;a reducida a tablas de Excel.</p><p>La ingenier&#237;a de ontolog&#237;as tiene una cultura fuerte de reutilizaci&#243;n, por una raz&#243;n sencilla: la <strong>interoperabilidad</strong> es todo. Ya existen vocabularios est&#225;ndar para casi cualquier dominio. <em>schema.org</em> para la web, <em>FIBO</em> para finanzas, <em>SNOMED</em> y <em>HL7</em> para salud, <em>GoodRelations</em> para comercio, las ontolog&#237;as <em>OBO Foundry</em> para las ciencias de la vida. Gente muy inteligente ya pas&#243; a&#241;os definiendo qu&#233; es una &#8220;Persona&#8221; y qu&#233; es una &#8220;Organizaci&#243;n&#8221;.</p><p>Aun as&#237;, siempre aparece el fundador, el CTO reci&#233;n ascendido, el arquitecto con s&#237;ndrome del genio incomprendido, que decide construir su propia clase <code>Persona</code> desde cero, porque la suya ser&#225; mejor, porque su empresa es <em>diferente</em>.</p><p>Pero no, eso no los hace diferentes. Un ser humano en su sistema tiene nombre, correo y fecha de nacimiento igual que en el m&#237;o. <strong>Nadie les pidi&#243; que reinventaran al ser humano.</strong> Reutilizar un est&#225;ndar no es rendirse: es la misma l&#243;gica del <a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">terroir cultural</a> que explor&#233; en la TOMA #7. No importamos las uvas francesas porque s&#237;, pero tampoco reinventamos la fermentaci&#243;n. <strong>La innovaci&#243;n se trata de tomar lo probado y adaptarlo a tu suelo.</strong> Como dir&#237;a Tom Kelley de IDEO, la innovaci&#243;n no es otra cosa que hallar nuevas formas de &#8220;empacar&#8221; lo que ya existe.</p><p>Linneo, curiosamente, entendi&#243; esto mejor que la mayor&#237;a de nuestros arquitectos de software. No invent&#243; una palabra nueva para cada especie. Simplemente tom&#243; el lat&#237;n, una lengua ya existente, muerta y por eso estable, y construy&#243; encima de ella. <em>Homo sapiens</em>: g&#233;nero m&#225;s especie, solo dos palabras que dieron m&#225;s vuelo que la evoluci&#243;n lineal de Darwin y que todas las religiones juntas. Una convenci&#243;n que ha sobrevivido durante tres siglos gracias a que este loquito <strong>reutiliz&#243; en lugar de ponerse a inventar</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_PVj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9fdffc31-ebcd-49e6-bb92-f7390d7345d2_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_PVj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9fdffc31-ebcd-49e6-bb92-f7390d7345d2_1536x1024.png 424w, 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Hay una distinci&#243;n que separa a los que construyen ontolog&#237;as que duran de los que construyen monumentos al desperdicio. Se llama, en la jerga, la diferencia entre el <em>TBox</em> y el <em>ABox</em>. Suena como a robot de los a&#241;os ochenta. Traducido al cristiano: el <em>TBox</em> es tu esquema, las clases, las propiedades, las reglas, el molde. El <em>ABox</em> son los individuos concretos que llenan ese molde, los datos reales. Dicho como lo dir&#237;a un antrop&#243;logo (Bateson) y no un ingeniero: <strong>el TBox es el mapa, el ABox es el territorio.</strong></p><p>El error m&#225;s com&#250;n, el que arruina proyectos enteros, es tratar de mezclarlos. Meter en el mismo saco el concepto y el ejemplar. Es la trampa cl&#225;sica de la clase contra la instancia: &#8220;Vino&#8221; es una clase, &#8220;Vino tinto&#8221; es una subclase. Pero esa botella espec&#237;fica que tienes en tu cava, la que compraste en Villa de Leyva y est&#225;s guardando para una ocasi&#243;n que nunca llega, esa es una instancia, un individuo, un dato, no una categor&#237;a.</p><p><strong>Confundir los tres es como confundir la palabra &#8220;jaguar&#8221; con un jaguar que te est&#225; mirando desde un &#225;rbol. Al primero lo puedes escribir, el segundo te come.</strong></p><p>Aqu&#237; es donde surge la idea m&#225;s hermosa, m&#225;s humilde y m&#225;s subestimada de toda la inform&#225;tica. La que deber&#237;a estar tatuada en el brazo de cada tecn&#243;logo arrogante que conozco. Se llama la <em>Open World Assumption</em>, o la Presunci&#243;n del Mundo Abierto.</p><p>Esc&#250;chala bien, porque al final es filosof&#237;a pura disfrazada de l&#243;gica. Una base de datos tradicional opera bajo un Mundo Cerrado: si algo no est&#225; en mi tabla, no existe. Punto. La ausencia de un dato es una afirmaci&#243;n de falsedad. Si no tengo tu n&#250;mero en mi lista, no tienes n&#250;mero y ya est&#225;. <strong>Es la epistemolog&#237;a del bur&#243;crata: lo que no est&#225; en el formulario, no es real.</strong></p><p>Una ontolog&#237;a seria opera al rev&#233;s. Bajo un Mundo Abierto, <strong>lo que no est&#225; afirmado no es falso, es simplemente desconocido.</strong> La ausencia de informaci&#243;n no es informaci&#243;n. Que yo no sepa que me enviaste un componente no significa que no lo enviaste. Simplemente significa que no s&#233;.</p><p>Deteng&#225;monos en esto por un segundo, porque el tema es una postura moral disfrazada de detalle t&#233;cnico. El Mundo Cerrado es la arrogancia codificada: <em>mi tabla es el universo</em>. El Mundo Abierto es la humildad epist&#233;mica convertida en ingenier&#237;a: <em>mi conocimiento es un parche de luz en una oscuridad enorme, y tengo la decencia de admitirlo</em>. Es la diferencia entre el imperio que declara <em>terra nullius</em> sobre todo lo que no cartografi&#243;, y el naturalista que deja espacios en blanco en el mapa con la anotaci&#243;n <em>hic sunt dracones</em>, aqu&#237; hay dragones, aqu&#237; no s&#233;.</p><p>En la <a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">TOMA #6</a> habl&#233; de pensamiento sist&#233;mico, insist&#237; en que el mundo no es un &#225;rbol de l&#237;neas rectas sino un grafo de relaciones que se cruzan. La ontolog&#237;a te obliga a vivir en esa verdad, porque la otra gran tentaci&#243;n es forzar todo en una jerarqu&#237;a r&#237;gida, un &#225;rbol perfecto donde cada cosa cuelga de una sola rama superior. Pero el mundo real casi nunca funciona como la representaci&#243;n de dicho &#225;rbol. <strong>Es un grafo de propiedades que se traslapan.</strong></p><p>Linneo lo aprendi&#243; a golpes. Su &#225;rbol perfecto de la naturaleza tuvo que rendirse ante criaturas que se negaban a ser forzadas a colgarse de una sola rama. El ornitorrinco, mam&#237;fero que pone huevos y tiene pico. Imaginen la cara de ese man tratando de descifrar semejante capricho de la naturaleza: debi&#243; ser una pesadilla para &#233;l y para todos los que vinieron despu&#233;s. <strong>La naturaleza les demostr&#243; que no lee sus manuales de taxonom&#237;a, que hace lo impensable y lo impredecible.</strong></p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UKfa!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc41f517e-464f-4dba-85b8-01ad2249f68d_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!UKfa!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc41f517e-464f-4dba-85b8-01ad2249f68d_1536x1024.png 424w, 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Ahora toca el oficio. Este, como todo oficio, es aburrido, riguroso y no perdona la pereza.</p><p><strong>Primero: nombra las cosas de manera consistente y sin ambig&#252;edades.</strong> Adopta una convenci&#243;n desde el minuto uno (clases en un formato, propiedades en otro) y no las traiciones nunca. Dale a cada t&#233;rmino un identificador estable. La regla de oro, la que Linneo habr&#237;a firmado con sangre: <strong>nunca reutilices ni recicles un identificador una vez publicado.</strong> La gente r&#237;o abajo depende de esa estabilidad. Cambiar el significado de un nombre ya publicado no es un ajuste, es traici&#243;n. Es cambiar el n&#250;mero de la calle de alguien y no avisarle del cambio.</p><p>Por favor, por lo que m&#225;s quieras: <strong>documenta cada t&#233;rmino.</strong> Etiqueta legible, definici&#243;n humana, para todos los conceptos. Una ontolog&#237;a sin documentar vale, para cualquiera que no seas t&#250;, exactamente nada. Es un idioma privado. Un diario en clave. Muy bonito, pero completamente in&#250;til.</p><p><strong>Segundo: jerarqu&#237;as bajas y con principios, no taxonom&#237;as profundas.</strong> Modela relaciones &#8220;es-un&#8221; que sean verdaderas inclusiones l&#243;gicas, no agrupaciones por conveniencia. La herencia m&#250;ltiple (una cosa que cuelga de varias ramas) &#250;sala con pinzas, solo cuando sea l&#243;gicamente cierta. <strong>Cada nivel extra de profundidad es un nivel extra donde alguien se va a perder.</strong></p><p><strong>Tercero, aqu&#237; es donde la mayor&#237;a se pega tiros en los pies: cuidado con las propiedades.</strong> Define dominios y rangos con cabeza, pero no sobre-restrinjas. Los axiomas demasiado apretados producen inferencias sorprendentes y no deseadas cuando el razonador se pone a trabajar. Le dices al sistema que solo los humanos pueden tener madre y, de repente, el razonador deduce que tu perro es humano porque le pusiste &#8220;madre&#8221; en la ficha. <strong>La l&#243;gica computacional de las ontolog&#237;as no tiene sentido del humor. Hace exactamente lo que le dijiste, no lo que quisiste decir.</strong></p><p><strong>Cuarto: elige la expresividad justa y ni una gota m&#225;s.</strong> El lenguaje ontol&#243;gico viene en perfiles, cada uno con un canje distinto entre poder y velocidad. M&#225;s expresivo no es mejor. M&#225;s expresivo puede volver el razonamiento intratable a escala, es decir: inservible. Elige el lenguaje menos poderoso que a&#250;n responda tus preguntas de competencia. <strong>La sobre-ingenier&#237;a es una forma de vanidad muy frecuente.</strong></p><p><strong>Quinto, el que separa a los profesionales de los aficionados: prueba con un razonador, continuamente.</strong> Corre el razonador con frecuencia. Revisa consistencia. Caza inferencias no deseadas y clases imposibles antes de que crezcan. <strong>Trata una inconsistencia como un build roto</strong>, como c&#243;digo que no compila. No como una sugerencia, sino como una alerta. Valida que tus preguntas de competencia de verdad devuelvan respuestas correctas contra datos reales, no contra tu fe.</p><p><strong>Sexto: gobierna esto como software.</strong> Versiona, documenta cambios. Ten una pol&#237;tica de depreciaci&#243;n: cuando un t&#233;rmino muere, no lo borras, lo deprecias. Lo marcas como jubilado pero lo dejas visible, porque hay sistemas all&#225; afuera que todav&#237;a lo nombran. <strong>Borrarlo es romperles el mundo sin avisar.</strong></p><p>Volvamos a Linneo por &#250;ltima vez, porque &#233;l encarn&#243; esta regla siglos antes de que existiera Git. Cuando movi&#243; a las ballenas de los peces a los mam&#237;feros, no fingi&#243; que el error nunca hab&#237;a ocurrido. La correcci&#243;n qued&#243; registrada, edici&#243;n sobre edici&#243;n, un rastro de arrepentimientos taxon&#243;micos que hoy los historiadores de la ciencia leen como un diario de a bordo. <strong>Una ontolog&#237;a es un artefacto vivo</strong>, no un monumento ni una pieza de exposici&#243;n en un museo. Es un organismo que crece, se equivoca, se corrige y se documenta a s&#237; mismo.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r_0r!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F998abfa7-31e9-4b9a-bda7-3ecd4250e8a0_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r_0r!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F998abfa7-31e9-4b9a-bda7-3ecd4250e8a0_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!r_0r!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F998abfa7-31e9-4b9a-bda7-3ecd4250e8a0_1536x1024.png 848w, 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Ninguna ontolog&#237;a decente la construye una sola persona. Hacen falta dos roles, y casi nunca viven en el mismo cuerpo. Est&#225; el <strong>experto del dominio</strong>, el que conoce la verdad del terreno, el m&#233;dico que sabe c&#243;mo se comportan de verdad las enfermedades, el minero que sabe qu&#233; es en realidad una veta. Y est&#225; el <strong>ingeniero de conocimiento</strong>, el que impone la consistencia l&#243;gica y la disciplina del modelado.</p><p>El experto solo produce un caos verdadero: sabe todo, pero no lo puede estructurar. El ingeniero solo produce una estructura falsa: elegant&#237;sima y desconectada de la realidad. <strong>Ninguno de los dos, por s&#237; mismo, sirve al prop&#243;sito com&#250;n.</strong></p><p>Es exactamente la dupla que describ&#237; en <a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">La Espada y el Compa&#241;ero</a>, TOMA #12. El humano trae el juicio, el contexto, la verdad vivida del dominio. La herramienta (o el ingeniero, o la IA) trae la disciplina, la consistencia, la ejecuci&#243;n implacable. Dos espadas, <em>Ni Ten Ichi Ryu</em>. <strong>El error de nuestra &#233;poca es creer que una de las dos hojas sobra</strong>, pero en el mundo de las ontolog&#237;as no sobra ninguna.</p><p>Sospecho, y esto es lo que me tiene escribi&#233;ndote un domingo a esta hora, que el rol del ingeniero de conocimiento, ese oficio oscuro y mal pagado que casi nadie entend&#237;a, est&#225; a punto de volverse una de las profesiones m&#225;s valiosas del planeta. Porque toda IA que quiera dejar de alucinar y empezar a razonar necesita a alguien que le dibuje el mapa de qu&#233; existe. <strong>Ese alguien no es un programador, es un pensador de las ciencias blandas con l&#243;gica formal.</strong> Un tax&#243;nomo del siglo XXI. Tal vez un segundo Ad&#225;n.</p><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png" width="1456" height="971" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:3332553,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.futopix.com/i/206731366?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!BbZP!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7f5dc170-a819-4e29-b380-5b4ae28bbb58_1536x1024.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg aria-hidden="true" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" class="icon-noB79L"><g><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image buttonBase-GK1x3M"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2 icon-noB79L"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><h2>El Mundo no lo Hemos Terminado de Nombrar</h2><p>Linneo muri&#243; en 1778, en Uppsala, convencido de que hab&#237;a cumplido la misi&#243;n del segundo Ad&#225;n. Hab&#237;a nombrado y organizado toda la creaci&#243;n. Hab&#237;a puesto orden donde Dios, en su generosidad desordenada, solo hab&#237;a puesto abundancia.</p><p>Pero se equivoc&#243;, por supuesto. No en los detalles (aunque en esos tambi&#233;n), sino en la premisa. <strong>Crey&#243; que nombrar el mundo era una tarea que se termina.</strong> Que hab&#237;a una taxonom&#237;a verdadera, final, definitiva, esperando ser descubierta como una estatua dentro del m&#225;rmol. Lo que descubri&#243;, sin quererlo, edici&#243;n tras edici&#243;n, fue lo contrario: <strong>que nombrar el mundo es una tarea que nunca se termina, porque el mundo no deja de revelar criaturas que no leyeron su manual.</strong></p><p>Esa es la lecci&#243;n para nosotros, que vivimos en la era de las m&#225;quinas que razonan. La tentaci&#243;n de nuestro tiempo es creer que la IA nos ahorrar&#225; el trabajo de pensar qu&#233; existe. Que podemos tirar el caos al lago y esperar sabidur&#237;a. Es la misma soberbia de Linneo, ahora automatizada: <em>la m&#225;quina lo ordenar&#225; por nosotros</em>.</p><p>Pero no lo har&#225;. La m&#225;quina hereda nuestras categor&#237;as o inventa las suyas, y las que inventa sola, sin ontolog&#237;a, <strong>son alucinaciones con la voz muy segura.</strong> Alguien tiene que decidir, con prop&#243;sito y humildad, qu&#233; existe en el mundo que la IA va a habitar. Alguien tiene que trazar el mapa, dejar los blancos donde no sabe, deprecar sin borrar y tratar la incoherencia como un incendio.</p><p>Ese alguien somos nosotros. La buena noticia, la que quiero que te lleves de esta edici&#243;n, es que la herramienta m&#225;s poderosa jam&#225;s construida no volvi&#243; obsoleto el oficio: <strong>lo coron&#243;</strong>. En la era de la IA, el que sabe preguntar y nombrar el mundo con disciplina y con humildad no es una reliquia del siglo XVIII con levita y flores prensadas al cuerpo. <strong>Es la persona m&#225;s valiosa en la sala.</strong></p><p><em>Deus creavit.</em> Ahora te toca a ti disponer.</p><p>Nos vemos en la pr&#243;xima toma.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Si esta edici&#243;n te movi&#243; algo, estas otras te van a llamar:</em></p><ul><li><p><strong><a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">TOMA #4</a></strong> &#183; el twist cultural: por qu&#233; toda tecnolog&#237;a es, primero, una decisi&#243;n sobre qu&#233; significa ser humano.</p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">TOMA #6</a></strong> &#183; pensamiento sist&#233;mico: el mundo no es un &#225;rbol, es un grafo.</p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">TOMA #7</a></strong> &#183; terroir cultural: reutilizar lo probado y adaptarlo a tu suelo.</p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">TOMA #10</a></strong> &#183; pensamiento de primeros principios, y c&#243;mo pervertirlo si empiezas sin prop&#243;sito.</p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">TOMA #12 &#183; La Espada y el Compa&#241;ero</a></strong> &#183; las dos espadas: el humano y la herramienta.</p></li><li><p><strong><a href="https://gabrielbedoya.substack.com/">TOMA #33 &#183; Las Cuatro Lunas</a></strong> &#183; Galileo, el Helio-3 y cuatro futuros del trabajo.</p></li></ul><div><hr></div><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!tNde!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2eed16d0-3ad3-4095-be65-9c15ed6fcf18_1536x1024.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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