Enrique Dans

“LIVING IN THE FUTURE: KEYS ABOUT HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING OUR WORLD."

“BEST INFLUENCERS 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022” BY FORBES. SENIOR ADVISOR ON INNOVATION & DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION AT IE BUSINESS SCHOOL.

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Enrique Dans has been a Professor of Innovation at IE Business School since 1990. In his roles as a researcher, educator, and consultant, he studies the effects of technological innovation on individuals, businesses, and society as a whole.

In addition to his teaching work and his role as a Senior Advisor in Innovation and Digital Transformation at IE Business School, Enrique serves as a visiting professor at the Diplomatic School in Spain and the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where he provides guidance to various startups and established companies.

With a significant professional background, Enrique Dans has worked for multiple companies and organizations, including ESRI, Wolters Kluwer, Caja Navarra, Oracle, USG People, and several municipalities and autonomous communities.

 

Enrique Dans has been included in Forbes’ list of top influencers in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. He has been writing daily on his personal website, enriquedans.com, since 2003, which is one of the most popular sources for innovation-related content in the Spanish language. Additionally, he regularly contributes to numerous national and international media outlets on topics related to innovation and technology.

 

Furthermore, Enrique Dans is the author of “Everything is Going to Change” and “Living in the Future: Keys to How Technology is Changing Our World,” where he addresses the theme of innovation and technology, with a particular emphasis on sustainability and the importance of addressing the climate emergency before the promising future ahead of us is overshadowed by uncontrolled nature.

In 2023, he published “Everything Changes Again: How Web3 Will Revolutionize the World as We Know It,” in which he argues that we are witnessing a new technological revolution that will impact nearly all activities and industries. This new disruption is Web3, the next generation of the internet that promises to completely transform how we interact and do business online. Additionally, he examines other technologies and their impact on the digital world of today and the future, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, the metaverse, open-source, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and machine learning.

His extensive experience in the field of technology and future trends, along with his participation in numerous forums, seminars, and conferences, make him an excellent speaker capable of conveying his knowledge in a clear and convincing manner, while adapting to his audience.

After earning a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Santiago de Compostela, he pursued an MBA at the Instituto de Empresa, completed his Ph.D. in Information Systems at UCLA between 1996 and 2000, and conducted postdoctoral studies at Harvard Business School.

How Web 3 will revolutionize the world as we know it.

It's Machine Learning, not Artificial Intelligence.

Quantum Computing.

Sustainability: Climate emergency.

Generative Artificial Intelligence / AI.

The Metaverse and its ethical considerations.

The effect of the Internet on consumer behavior.

The future of mobility and transportation.

The new economy: Fintech and Blockchain.

Big Data / Online Security and Privacy.

EVERYTHING CHANGES AGAIN: HOW WEB3 WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

The technology innovation expert Enrique Dans wrote an essay titled "Everything is Going to Change" in 2010. In it, he analyzed the transformations brought about by the emergence of the internet in the business models of various industries and how it affected society and people's lives. More than ten years later, the rapid evolution of technology has led Dans to write a new book, because "Everything is Changing Again."

In our days, we are witnessing a new technological revolution that will affect virtually all activities and industries. This new disruption is Web3, the next generation of the internet that promises to completely transform the way we interact and do business on it.

Dans traces a journey from the early days of the internet and its evolution towards the social and participatory web, or Web 2.0, to the current moment when blockchain technology is driving a significant change in digital transactions and information storage towards higher levels of security, decentralization, interoperability, and privacy.

"Everything is Changing Again" also examines other technologies and their impact on the digital world of today and the future: the metaverse, open-source, cryptocurrencies, NFTs, and machine learning. In fact, the introduction of this book has been partially written using ChatGPT, a machine learning assistant that is astonishing the world with its high-quality interaction and its unusual ability to replicate human linguistic behavior.

These pages provide an excellent introduction to Web3 and blockchain. You will understand how technology eliminates the need for intermediaries in many transactions and provides a safer and more transparent way to conduct them, with the potential to disrupt the world of money, work, contracts... or everything we know.

EVERYTHING CHANGES AGAIN: HOW WEB3 WILL REVOLUTIONIZE THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT.

LIVING IN THE FUTURE: KEYS TO HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING OUR WORLD.

What impact will technology have on our future? In order to understand the technological world in which we live and how it will affect our future, it is first necessary to know how we have reached this point, what has been the evolution of the internet, and, above all, some of the irrefutable principles of technology: it cannot be "disinvented" and is not intrinsically good or bad. With illustrative examples of real companies such as Uber, Facebook, Airbnb or Snapchat, Enrique Dans offers us an analysis of current technology and the impact it will have on our world.

From virtual currencies or blockchain to artificial intelligence, this book contains everything you need to know about the future of work, commerce, organizations, education, privacy and other basic issues that will change coming years.

LIVING IN THE FUTURE: KEYS TO HOW TECHNOLOGY IS CHANGING OUR WORLD.

EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE.

Knowing and understanding the changes that technology triggers in consumer behavior is crucial for companies to know how to adapt their business models correctly and thereby maintain their competitiveness. Refusing to accept these changes and stubbornly clinging to strategies that were valid in the past but are ineffective in the present and obsolete in the future is the best recipe for slow but inevitable extinction.

Enrique Dans explains in this book the transformations that the advent of the Internet has brought to business models in sectors related to entertainment and culture (such as the music industry, audiovisual, media, or publishing industry). He also describes how and to what extent technological disruptions will continue to occur in the coming years, while indicating which references to observe and market movements to monitor.

Likewise, he explains what policies and legislation should be applied to intellectual property, why it makes no sense to fight against so-called illegal downloads, neither from content-generating companies with data protection software nor from the government with regulations that are already outdated and restrict freedoms. He also explains how preserving "net neutrality" benefits us all.

EVERYTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE.