Article about COVID-19

Humanity is facing one of the most challenging events from the last hundred years, COVID-
19. In 2020 most of the cities around the world were forced to a lockdown, avoiding the
spread of the virus, it was a tough year. However, I strongly believe that from every crisis,
there is a world of opportunities and for science, technology and innovation, it is a great time.

We know that this disease is one of the worst since WWII, but the great difference now, is
that we have science and technology on our side. For example, vaccines have been developed
at a very impressive rate and approved by many countries in less than a year, all of this with
the help of biotechnology, but not just public health or medicine have been challenged, many
other fields also.

Nowadays, Artificial Intelligence is a powerful tool to do complex task that for humans can
result impossible or can take a lot of time to do it. This kind of algorithms are capable to seek
for relevant information, patterns or even perform some forecasts from a set of data from a
country regarding epidemiological information, with this, governments or companies can
take strategical decisions to counteract the progress of the pandemic or for the business.

Personally, I think, this is the time where science is shining, and for Mexico it is great time
to take advantage of all its scientific resources, like universities, research centers and scientist
to develop knowledge and technology in favor of the country. Mexico specifically has a high-
level research in medicine and related sciences to develop solutions during the pandemic. It
is known that in the country exists a lack of scientist, but unemployment during this difficult
time and mostly in young people, can open them the opportunity to be formed as scientist in
any scientific field. Despite companies cannot offer as many employments as in the past, it
exists a lot of graduate degrees that are waiting for curious and passionate people about
science and technology.

Today, science and technology are playing an extremely important roles in the pandemic,
from the scientist that has to discover how the virus infect us, until the engineer and
mathematicians that are developing an algorithm to forecast the behavior of the pandemic
with the help of supercomputers in university labs.
Article about New Technologies

Technology is fascinating and I consider myself a passionate person about it. I’m an engineer
that work in the automotive industry since the last five years, and I really impressed how
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Additive Manufacturing, Software development,
Data Science, CAD/CAE among many other technologies are used to develop incredible
products. Today, autonomous vehicles had received a lot of attention not only in the
automobile industry, also when we talk about smart cities, delivery services and mobility. It
has been said that autonomy will be a key player on how we are going to move from one
point to another, but neither cities nor governments are prepared with the necessary
regulations and infrastructure to adopt this kind of vehicles. Companies are hardly-working
in the development of this kind of technologies and reach a full autonomous vehicle, this
means a driverless car, in today’s automobiles, we have a lot of technology to assist us while
driving, with the main purpose of keeping us safe against any accident. Nowadays, some cars
can drive by themselves but always with the presence of the driver that always needs to keep
the eyes on the road, also, some of them include a parking assistant mode, where we just need
find a free spot and the car park by itself.

Autonomy implies that the car is a super computer that can take decisions according the
information that comes from the exterior environment, this means, receive information from
sensors and cameras, process the information in a very short period of time and finally take
decisions to drive the car properly. One of the most known OEM leading the market, is Tesla,
not just for its electric and luxury cars, also of their high level of auto nomy that they include
in each vehicle, as in airplanes, you can activate the automatic pilot, but always keeping the
eyes on the road. Another impressive fact about Tesla’s cars, is the capacity to update their
software every time the company release a new version of it, all downloaded from the cloud.
It’s the same we do every day with our smartphones. But not just Tesla is this competition,
Ford, Rivian, BWM, GM, Lucid Motors, Byton, Apple or even Amazon are in this race.

Other interesting facts about the new generation of vehicles, are their capacity to be “smart”
and the connectivity they have. Now, we can synchronize our phones with the car, is
fascinating how we can control remotely many features of the car from our smartphone, like,
check fuel levels, unlock the doors or even turn on the motor. We can program our vehicle
in a hotspot, so everybody can connect to the Wi-Fi everywhere we are. Talking about
autonomy and smart cities, it exists the possibility that automatically communicate with the
car that is behind us so it can stop on time because of an accident in front of us. Have you
imagined that the car could be connected to our house, and the coffee is ready when we
arrived? Well, now this can be possible with all these new technologies, be prepared for a
smart future.