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Bill Gates and Warren Buffet have shared the same key to be successful: choose what to focus on

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Bill Gates’ father brought together several people, among whom He was Warren Buffett, and asked what it was, in a word, The secret of his success. Both Microsoft’s founding millionaire and his good friend Buffett responded exactly the same: focus “You must focus. Eliminate distractions. Commit with only one thing and become excellent in it. “These are some of the advice that insistently repeat many productivity experts, such as the author of ‘Atomic habits‘, James Clear. This idea sounds logical. However, the big question for those who read those advice is How to know what to focus your energies. Experience before choosing How to know what to dedicate your attention and energy if you don’t know what really interests you? That is one of the questions you must answer before asking yourself What to focus on. Before deciding on what to concentrate your energy, it is necessary to try different paths. As Clear tells In your personal experienceDuring his first year as an entrepreneur he made many mistakes: “I launched my first product without having an idea who would sell it (big surprise, nobody bought it).” Therefore, your recommendation is Do not get obsessed with a single idea will work. It is necessary to try between four and five different alternatives for a while and, if it does not convince you, go to the next. This approach to “try things until something is easy” is essential because, regardless of the objective, it must adapt to your nature and skills. If you are looking to be more productive, experience with several Organization techniques. However good they are and no matter how much they work To people in your environment, you may not adapt to your way of working, To your biorhythms or your way of processing the information. Simply stop committing you to work with you and try Another different technique. The same happens if your goal is to start exercising, prove different sports. Maybe the Running Don’t be yours And it seems bored, and what you really enjoy is yoga or paddle. As the author of the Best seller on productivitythe important thing is not to obtain that a single option must work at all costs. Leaving behind what does not fit with you will allow you to discover what best suits your personality and lifestyle. Choose and Persevear: Invisible work Once you have experienced enough to discover what fits you and what is not, it is time to decide What are you going to focus on. As Clear explains, there comes a time in the process in which you don’t need more information, you just need to make a decision. This is one of the most difficult moments, because it implies putting aside the constant search and commit yourself to a single option. It’s time to focus. From here, perseverance becomes fundamental. Real progress It is not usually visible at the beginning. For example, you must be aware that, if you start going to the gym, you will have to do thousands of repetitions before noticing physical changes. If you want to be a great chef, you will first have to cook many mediocre (or bad) dishes. As Ira Glass pointed outfounder of the podcast This American Life“Your taste is good enough to notice that what you do disappoints you.” That is, only through repetition and constant learning the basis of success for a project, regardless of its nature, begin to lay. It doesn’t matter if it’s about Study oppositionsimprove your productivity, read more either Acquire new habits healthy The practice and art of simplifying Excellence is achieved with constant practice. After going through the phases of experimentation and hard work, the time comes when you can start simplifying. James Clear summarize it like this: “Only after completing the repetitions you will understand which parts of the task are fundamental for success.” It is then, when You have created a solid systemWhen you can Cut processesbetter choose your tools and eliminate what does not provide value. Getting something simple is, paradoxically, the most difficult. As wrote Blaise Pascal: “If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.” True mastery consists in knowing exactly What is essential and what is accessorysomething that is only achieved after a lot of practice and learning. Each person has their own rhythm, but the path to simplicity and approach inevitably happens through experience and perseverance. In Xataka | Lack of motivation is a problem for productivity. The trick to avoid it is simple according to science: start Image | Unspash (Ioann-Mark Kuznietsov), Flickr (Fortune Live Media, World Bank Photo Collection)

Steve Jobs and Bill Gates seemed irreconcilable enemies. They were actually great allies: “We worked well together”

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In the field of technology, times of A fierce rivalry between large companies to master a certain market: Intel and AMD, Sony and Nintendo, Nvidia and AMD or, of course, Apple and Microsoftwith Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as representatives of that rivalry. However, beyond that business competitiveness to achieve The best products of the market with PC or Mac: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs cultivated a relationship of “intimate enemies” based on mutual respect and recognition. Complementary adversaries Microsoft and Apple’s story has been marked by rivalrybut on many occasions, both companies have collaborated hand in hand to develop products. However, despite those collaborations that, for example, took Office to the Macintosh, has maintained the image of Steve Jobs and Bill Gates as eternal irreconcilable rivals. Nothing is further from reality. In An interview For the podcast ON PURPOUS From Jay Shetty, Bill Gates confessed that Jobs and he were complementary, and that allowed them to work together on different projects. “I had a fantastic relationship with Steve. At first I worked with Jobs and Wozniak with Basic for Apple 2, and later, as Steve had a small group inside Apple developing the Macintoshinvited Microsoft to make some software applications for him. We work very closely in that project. We loved both of the result and ended up being a key product for Apple, “Gates explained. The founder of Microsoft stressed that “although we were very competitive, we also admired each other.” Apparently, Steve Jobs thought the same as Bill Gates. In one historical interview in which journalists of The Wall Street Journal Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg sat on both on the stage of conference D5, Steve Jobs claimed citing the song Two of the Beatles: “‘You and I have longer memories than the path that extends ahead’ and that is clearly true in this case.” Gates assured that the secret of the long relationship of love/hate between Apple’s co -founder and he was that both were complementary. “We worked well together. He was very good in what I was not,” said the millionaire. Without Apple and Microsoft the computer science would be different The visions of how a Microsoft and Apple computer should be They were very differentand a faithful reflection of the strengths of their two leaders. While Apple put all the focus on design and efficiency, in Microsoft they focused on developing a platform for their software with the aim of taking a computer to each house. “They said we were out of reality, but we knew that computer science would be part of everyday life,” Gates recalled in his interview. “Steve had incredible skills. He appreciated the user design and interface and even for his intuition with people. It was simply a genius in a way that I cannot explain. I did not look at the code or write it. Instead, the programming is mine. Let’s make that faster and more efficient code.” This rivalry and concept differences caused computer science to advance to the mature industry that is currently, with two companies reaching capitalizations that range The 3 billion dollars. This success would probably have been impossible Without the incentive of the competition which was lived in the late 90s and early 2000s. Microsoft’s co -founder millionaire recognized that both had speeches about how computers would change education and improve it, although he also acknowledged that projects to improve the use of computers They were not always successful. “I think we were both satisfied with what we had done. We got a seat in the front row and helped build all this,” Gates said in reference to the last conversations he had with Steve Jobs before his death in 2011. In the joint intervention that both founders made in 2007, Steve Jobs defined how he saw the competition between Apple and Microsoft of the late 90s: “Many people believed that the rivalry between Apple and Microsoft was a zero -sum game in which for Apple Microsoft won had to lose. It was clear that it was not necessary to play that game because Apple was not going to beat Microsoft. Microsoft. In Xataka | Elon Musk got outstanding in computer science. Who designed the computers they used did not approve with the same ease Image | Flickr (Joi Ito, Kazuhiro Shiozawa)

20 years ago someone predicted that the iPod would end up being irrelevant to the arrival of smartphones: it was Bill Gates

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When it comes to technological innovation, the real triumph It is not to get a supervent productbut be able to advance what will be the one that will be sold the most One and even two decades later. That talent is the one that has made many founders of large technology today are among the Greater fortunes in the world. In May 2005, with the iPod selling as churros and revolutionizing the way of listening to music, Bill Gates Auguró In an interview to a German medium that, a few years later, The iPod was going to be irrelevant. Although for those years, many interpreted His words like agoreras And the result of Microsoft’s inability to deal with the success of the iPod, Gates gave in the nail. The launch of the iPhone in 2007 and the arrival of the smartphones meant the First nail in your coffin. Bill Gates saw him come. Microsoft let him escape In your interview for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, The technological millionaire refined his crystal ball from the technological sector. Two years before the launch of the first smartphone as we know it today, predict what the mobile Two decades later. “The mobile phones market is strategically fundamental. More and more functions will be integrated into a single device, and this requires software solutions. The perspective of having all relevant functions in a single device will be irresistible for consumers,” Gates said in 2005. With that statement, Microsoft’s founding millionaire gave in the nail with What was going to happen in the next decade with the development of the smartphones industry. However, in addition to seeing them coming, companies must be able to position in the right place for Take advantage of those predictions And that, with Steve Ballmer already in front of the company doubting success From the business model that the iPhone anticipated, it was the great pending subject for Microsoft. Despite the Windows Phone effortsthe huge mobile software market that Gates predicted was going to stay In Google’s hands and Apple with their respective operating systems, while Microsoft was relegated to a Minority market share with an operating system that did not convince. Ipod fall predicted, not the success of the iPhone “I do not believe that the success of the iPod can be sustained in the long term, however good Apple is. I think you can establish parallels with computers: here also Apple used to be extremely strong with its Macintosh and its graphical user interface (similar to the current iPod) and then lost their position. Consumers want more options and get them because there is a lot of innovation in this area,” Gates said in 2005. Again, he accounted for 100% in what consumers would require mobile devices in the next decade, and the iPod was going to fall short. However, again, and despite the adequate forecast of the millionaire, Microsoft He could not find his space neither Take advantage of your strengths. Instead, Apple not only responded to demands from your customers integrating the functions of the iPod into the iPhone for make it more versatilebut took advantage of the app store to Expand your functions opening a door to millions of applications. In this way, it was Apple who took advantage of the premise that, very rightly, had announced Bill Gates. In Xataka | Bill Gates’ first business was a failure: there he learned everything he needed to build the Microsoft empire Image | Flickr (World Bank Photo Collection), Xataka

They asked Bill Gates and Warren Buffett how they would define their success in one word. They did not hesitate: focus

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At 94, Warren Buffett Ha “Hang” your investment notebook After more than six decades as one of the brightest and most accurate investors of Wall Street in front of Berkshire Hathaway. For his part, Bill Gates spent four decades directing Microsoft. Both became Milmillonarios with it and agree that they would never have achieved it if it is not for a key factor: to focus on achieving their goals. Focus on something and be constant. In one Interview for CNBCBuffett said that on one occasion Bill Gates gathered a group of 20 people – among which Bill Gates was – and asked them to write a word that explained their success on paper. “Bill and I had only seen each other twice and we didn’t know what the other was writing. We both wrote the same word: ‘Focus‘” Both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett attribute much of their fortune and legacy to their ability to avoid dispersion and keep the course for decades. For them, the approach and the ability to focus on a single objective is not only a skill, but the basis on which their empires built. While others played, Gates scheduled. As detailed in his autobiographical book ‘Code Source: My beginnings’Adolescent Gates discovered that programming was a creative way of structuring ideas that tests their logical thinking, which made it become obsessed with creating different programs when access to a computer was a scarce resource only reserved for universities and large companies. Gates and his companions of the “Computer Fourth” of high school managed to get free shared access time to one of those expensive computers and learn to program when very few knew how to do it. This obsession with the software has provided a fortune valued at 112.7 billion dollars, according to Forbes Start is an advantage. In An interview For Charlie Rose’s program in 2016, Gates said that “what you do obsessively between 13 and 18 years is what is most likely to take you to global success. The only thing I did obsessively between my 13 and 18 was to write software.” According to Buffett, in the same way as Gates He focused on learningHe did it to learn to invest. “He focused on software. I concentrated on investments. Starting very young gave me a great advantage. There is no doubt about it,” said the investor nonagenarian. According to Times of Indiaat 11 years the “Oracle of Omaha” was already beginning to make his steps in the investments with $ 114.75 that he had saved. With them he bought three actions from the CNIES Service oil and gas company (now called Citgo). Bill Gates became a millionaire at age 20 thanks to the software company he had founded with his secondary school friend Paul Allen. Warren Buffett had to wait until 32 years for his heritage to exceed six figures. Prioritize and avoid distractions. Having clear priorities has been essential for Gates and Buffet not to waste energies in projects that did not bring them closer to their goals. Bill Gates told to CNBC that He had focused all his life In a single project: Microsoft. During his first 20 years leading Microsoft, his routine revolved exclusively around software development, sacrificing weekends and vacations to achieve its goal: that each home had a personal computer. In An interview for Vanity FairPaul Allen, co -founder of Microsoft and Gates’s partner in its beginnings in programming, said that “Microsoft was an environment of great stress because Bill directed others as hard as he did with himself.” Warren Buffett’s strategy: focus and long term. From a young age, Warren Buffett, chose to specialize in long -term investmentsavoiding the temptation to search Quick earnings. Your strategy During all this time it has been based on identifying solid companies, investing in them and maintaining the actions for years or even decades letting the Time and compound interest They would grow their money. Buffett calls this investment style the “snowball effect”. In the Annual Berkshire Hathaway Shareholders Board of 1999Buffett joked with his inverting precocity. “We started building this small snowball at the top of a very long hill. The key is to have a very long hill, either starting very young or living to very old.” The 94 -year -old veteran investor has met both conditions for Finish your career With the fifth greatest fortune in the world, with a “snowball” valued in 156.6 billion dollars. In Xataka | The two Warren Buffet lists: the millionaire investor technique to prioritize professional objectives Image | Flickr (Fortune Live Media), Wikimedia Commons (Jennifer Jacquemart)

Bill Gates has revealed how he will spend all his fortune. He has also made a very serious accusation about Elon Musk

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The Gates Foundation This week has celebrated its 25th anniversary. Founded in 2000 when Melinda French Gates was 35 years old and Bill Gates 44 (and was the richest man in the world), she quickly became one of the most important philanthropic organizations in history. Therefore, and because talking to Gates is always a “song”, The New York Times and The Financial Times They have had access to an extensive interview. He has rarely left such powerful headlines. Gates goes against Elon Musk and announces the plan to liquidate a fortune of 200 billion dollars. A transcendental decision. Yes, at 25 years of its foundation, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation He has announced that he will definitely close its doors on December 31, 2045, after having allocated more than 100,000 million dollars to improve global health and human development and with the commitment to double that figure in the next 20 years. Gates, who will allocate almost all of his personal fortune to this final stage, argues that current scientific tools, including advances in AI, offer A unique opportunity to achieve radical changes that make its institutional continuity unnecessary. This strategy responds not only to an impulse of efficacy and urgency, but also to the finding of a worrying setback in international cooperation, aggravated by the dismantling of programs like Usaid Under the administration of Donald Trump, whose decisions They could be translated into millions of additional children’s deaths in the coming decades. Gates, although still optimistic, admits that global philanthropy is going through its most delicate moment since the beginning of the century. Elon Musk and moral terrain. The struggle between two of the most influential figures in the contemporary world, Elon Musk and Bill Gates, It was knownbut now it has reached a new and sour dimension with the very hard statements of the founder of Microsoft. Gates accused in the Financial Times Musk of being responsible, although indirectly, of “killing the poorest children in the world” after the dismantling of the USAID, a measure promoted by Doge, the entity created by Musk and backed by the US government. Not just that. Gates denounced that this decision, taken (according to him) since ignorance, has paralyzed the Distribution of essential medicines and food in vulnerable areas, in addition to putting fundamental programs for public health in countries such as Mozambique, where a hospital that avoided the transmission of HIV from mothers to children was affected by cuts that Musk He erroneously justified When confusing the African province of Gaza With the Palestinian region of the same name. An ideological and long enmity. As we said, the confrontation between Gates and Musk is not new. In 2012, both initially coincided in the GIVING PLEDGEa commitment to donate much of his fortune to philanthropic causes, but Musk soon described traditional philanthropy of “garbage”defending commercial solutions such as Tesla electric vehicles as more effective tools against challenges such as climate change. His distancing was aggravated in 2022, when Musk knew that Gates had Around short Against Tesla’s actions, which unleashed his anger and caused a public response out of tone in social networks. According to the biography written by Walter Isaacson, this revelation marked A point of no return between them. A moral and financial setback. Therefore, Gates’s announcement comes in the midst of unprecedented divestment in foreign aid. The drastic 80 % reduction In the USAID budget, cuts to key programs like Pepfar And the decline in international cooperation in countries such as the United Kingdom, Germany and France, illustrate what Gates Describe in the Times as a dangerous collective withdrawal of commitment to the poorest. The paradox, As explainedIt is that while science and health innovation offer viable solutions to eradicate diseases such as HIV, malaria or tuberculosis, moral and political impulse to finance these solutions seems to be disappearing. It emphasizes that instead of consolidating the achievements of the last two decades, the world is on the verge of reversenot due to lack of resources, but for a weakening of the “humanitarian impulse” that, until recently, defined rich democracies. A finite legacy. Gates He argues thatby establishing a closing date and not trying to perpetuate the legacy of its foundation, you can allocate many more resources immediately and decisively. This approach, which describes how A “BOLUS DOSE” philanthropic (a great power injection), will allow the annual expenditure of the foundation for about 9,000 million dollars and concentrate on key areas such as maternal child health, the eradication of infectious diseases and the fight against structural poverty. Gates believes that, thanks to innovation accumulated in recent years, it is possible achieve ambitious objectives How to half reduce infant mortality, eliminate endemic diseases in Africa and double agricultural productivity in the continent. All this while driving the use of AI in local contexts (from medical diagnoses to agronomist in regional dialects) as a motor to close historical gaps. Between optimism and urgency. In both talks, although he acknowledges that pandemic and debt crisis in the poorest countries have stopped decades of progress, insists that the panorama It is not irreversible. See in technology, in collaboration with new philanthropic actors and in the example of a foundation with expiration date, A realistic route to return strength to the global movement for equity. He also states that he does not want to build a monument to his fortune, but return it to the service of humanity at the time you can have more impact. In front of a new generation of more billionaires centered on space exploration Or in individual interests, the man claims the urgency of acting now to avoid millions of avoidable deaths and definitively transform the living conditions of the most disadvantaged. In his own words, if it is not achieved now, what alternative would he have? Give your money on ships? The answer, according to Gates, is morally obvious. Image | World Economic, Ted Conference In Xataka | Bill Gates and the autistic spectrum: a family revelation … Read more

Bill Gates does not believe that doctors and teachers have a future

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Bill Gates has led the technological scene for enough time to know see a disruptive change When you have it in front: AI is one of those changes. In an interview on the occasion of the launch of his new book ‘Sources Code: My beginnings‘, the millionaire has assured that the AI ​​of the future will no longer need human intervention in certain tasks such as the Disease diagnosis or education. It will not be in the short term, but it will be Bill Gates has repeatedly shared his vision of artificial intelligence in different interviews, the last in a recent interview during the program The Tonight Show presented by Jimmy Fallon. During the interview, in addition to remembering the anecdote in which Steve Jobs incredp LSD to improve your productsGates said that AI will have such a significant impact on people’s lives, that humans “will not be necessary for most things.” Although this statement could sound somewhat dystopian and alarming, Gates emphasized that the key is how we use AI to improve our lives instead of fearing it, something that He had already explainedin one of the entries in his personal blog. The millionaire recognized that, at present, the use of AI is still “rare and very expensive”, pointing to those fields, such as medicine or teaching, where assistance It is still closely linked to human specialists In those fields. “With AI, during the next decade, that will become free and usual. It is a very deep change because it solves all those specific problems, such as we do not have enough doctors, mental health professionals. But it brings many changes,” said the founder of Microsoft. Something that already advanced in 2023 in an interview with Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, For your podcast ‘Unconfuse Me ‘. Gates clarified that there will be certain activities that humans are going to want to continue doing, such as playing (and seeing) football or humans matches, but there will be other activities in which AI will end up being more efficient than humans and, therefore, they will be abandoned, explained to Jimmy Fallon. The general will be the great transformative leap In the interview that Bill Gates keptWith Arthur Brooks at Harvard University, the millionaire stressed How AI can expand human capacities in areas such as education, health and work. According to Gates, those best human capabilities assisted by AIthey will contribute to accelerate technological advances causing their development curve to be faster and, therefore, reach the majority of users at a very low price. “It is something very deep and even a little scary, because it is happening very fast and there is no upper limit,” Gates explained to Brooks during his interview. Gates believes thatin the first instance, it will be the agents of AI who will change the way in which we interact with AI, becoming specialists in very specific tasks. This was told to Aria Finger and Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn in An interview for your podcast ‘Possible ‘. For example, a duly trained AI agent could help students and workers to develop skills more quickly through personalized learning tools to each student. However, Gates considers that AI, as we know it today, has the days counted. The next great jump is the General Artificial Intelligencethat is closer to Concept of human intelligence. Mustafa Suleyman, Executive Director of Artificial Intelligence of Microsoft and, according to Bill Gates, One of the most vision voices On the future of AI, it aligns with the prediction of Gates in that the current AI and the AI ​​agents are only one Intermediate step towards the great revolution which will mean the arrival of the general AI. “These tools will only temporarily increase human intelligence. They will make us smarter and more efficient for a while, and will generate enormous economic growth, but they are mainly replacing labor,” said Suleyman in his book ‘The coming wave: technology, power and the great dilemma of the 21st century. Gates assured in his interview with Fallon that “there will be some things that we reserve (to make humans). But in terms of producing, transporting and Cultivate foodover time those problems will be practically solved, “Gates said. In Xataka | Bill Gates believes that the future goes through the three -day work week. The problem is that we don’t have so much money Image | Flickr (Government Tom Wolf)

After years of Japanese, in Spain there is already a generation at the gates of an uncertain scenario: old age without children

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In 1960 each Spanish woman had throughout her life almost three children. Today They do not reach 1.2. The data is just that: data, demographic means, pure statistical mathematics, but they serve to understand better trends that are every time more present in homes of homes. As I know Birth sinkslife expectancy and Families changeSpain meets A new reality: The first “without children” generations look at old age with the challenge of facing that last vital stage without offspring. No children. Neither grandchildren. The big question is … why? And what does it imply? Figure issue. Spanish demography (like that of Other other countriesinside and out of the West) It is changing. A lot. And fast. In fact it has been doing it for a long time. If we review the fertility index we find that It has collapsed Throughout the last decades: of 2.94 children per woman in 1967 we have gone to 1.12. And going down. Translated into babies that supposes that today they are born in Spain less than half that in him Baby Boom. The trend has been the opposite among people who live alone. At least over the last years. If in 2014 the unipersonal households supposed 24% of the total From the census, six years later they were already 26%. Another reality is those who live in a couple but choose to do it without offspring. In 2020 the INE counted near four million of homes with that profile, two out of ten. Generations without children. A few months ago the CIS contributed an even more interesting approach. Its technicians They asked to people born over the last decades if they had children and found themselves with which the percentage of ‘Sies’ fell clearly as the age of the interviewees did. It is a predictable trend among younger respondents, under 34, but the study reflects something else: among cohorts with more advanced ages, which are already peeling retirement, there is also a considerable percentage of people without offspring. And to show a button. If 89% of people of 75 or more years had children, that percentage went to 81.5%Among the interviewees from 55 to 64 years. If we go to the fork from 35 to 44 years the proportion drops even more, to 62%, and if we descend even more, focusing on the population between 25 and 34 years, we find that only 32% of respondents have had at least one offspring. Why is it important? Because as I pointed out recently The Spanish newspaper (EPE) in An analysis On that same phenomenon, the data of the CIS show us that Spain is at the gates of a demographic milestone: the arrival in the old -generation old age in which a relevant percentage of people has chosen to have no offspring. According to the CISin the age strip from 55 to 64 years they represent 18.5%. “The ghost of old age without children”. Between that 18.5% of people without offspring, such as I confessed recently A couple in the fifty to EPE, there are those who already contemplate with concern to the “ghost of old age without children.” That is, the perspective of becoming greater or becoming dependent without children or grandchildren who, if necessary, can serve as a network. “It seems that you are always going to be autonomous, but the aging is noticeable year after year and seeing it in your elders causes restlessness because having children does not mean that no one will take care of you, but you can have support, at least someone to call,” Write The same couple. They now have octogenarian parents who need help and “someone for everything.” “What would they do without their children?” Marking the way. 18.5% may seem a reduced percentage yet, but THE STUDY OF THE CIS It is interesting for something else: it suggests that this scenario of ‘old age without children’ will be increasingly common. Among the interviewees of 45 to 54 years the percentage of those who claim to have no offspring represents 21.3% and between the people aged 25 and 44 touches 36-66%. Maternity It has been delaying With the passing of the decades and today it is located in almost 33 yearswith what the logical thing would be for these percentages to soften, but still the trend is clear. THE CIS Confirm In addition, another reality that institutions such as the INE have been drawing for a long time: many of the couples who have been parents have had a single descendant, so the support they can receive in their old age will depend on a single child. It comes to review two figures to understand it: among those over 75 years of age the percentage of people with children who claim to have had more than a offspring reaches 90.3%. Among the interviewees of 55 to 64 years that same proportion already collapses to 73.5%. A complex reality. The big question arriving at this point is … Why do the Spaniards have fewer children than a few decades ago or do we even opt for not having them? The answer is complex and adds multiple factors, including cultural, labor and social changes, but a few months ago the CIS reflected Another factor Same relevant: the economic one. According to your polls, 77.3% Of the Spaniards believe that people have no children “due to lack of economic means.” 44.1% indicate another cause that goes along the same lines: “Conciling problems” work and professional life. Moreover, the research center states that 59% of respondents who have not been parents recognize that they would have liked to be. “Create support networks”. The other question that remains by throwing is … What will this increase in people who reach old age without children or grandchildren? Will it translate into greater pressure for public coffers? The problem is not exclusive to Spain. Other countries (Even in Asia) They also face the challenge of seeing how their demographic pyramid is widened … Read more

Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg and Altman believe that our mobiles have the days counted. Tim cook doesn’t have it so clear

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Substitute is sought for the mobile phone. We have been looking for it for years, but it is that smartphones continue to prove to be perfect products in almost all the scenarios. However, several great technological leaders They seem clear that the mobile has an expiration dateand the AI ​​and a potential change in the way we interact with technology have the fault. Elon Musk and Neuralink. The tycoon has been trying to win the AI ​​career for some time With his startup XAI And his Grok model, but also has another startup that will end up being the one that makes the mobile disappear. It is neither more nor less than Neuralinkwhose implants could become an extraordinary option to communicate with technological devices. Bill Gates and the tattoos. The Microsoft co -founder converted to Philanthropist has already advanced in 2022 that one of the potential substitutes (or rather, accessories, at least in this case) of mobiles They are electronic tattoos. He himself ended up investing in a startup called Chaotic Moon —What was acquired by Accenture in 2015 – that combines aesthetics and biotechnology. The orientation of these tattoos is for the health moment, but it could be used for other uses. Mark Zuckerberg and glasses. Much more plausible looks like Meta and Mark Zuckerberg, than with their Ray-Ban Meta connected glasses It proposes an increasingly promising alternative to the mobile. Maybe not for everything, of course, but every time for more things. These devices can win many integers thanks to artificial intelligence, and in fact we saw how their evolution, the Project Orionit does raise a future in which perhaps the mobile is much less relevant. He already said it: His prediction is that In 2030 we will not get so much the pocket smartphone Thanks to connected glasses. Sam Altman and the AI ​​iPhone. Meanwhile, the OpenAi CEO, Sam Altman, also seems to be clear that hardware can end up being the perfect substitute for our mobile devices. We still do not know what type of device is raising, but it has joined the famous Jony Ive who for years was the head of Industrial Design in Apple. Together they have the objective of Create the “AI iPhone”. Tim Cook continues to believe on the mobile. Faced with all of them, Tim Cook believes that mobile phones still have a long way ahead. In the presentation of results of the first fiscal quarter of 2015, the Apple CEO highlighted its optimism about the future of mobiles When saying “I think there is still a lot of innovation in smartphones.” Its pro vision are for example a product that is not raised to be used outdoors, but they seem to have a rival for the finish line in study through the Project Atlas. Hardware with AI has been a failure. The truth is that a year ago the fever of devices with AI seemed to promise a turning point. However both the Humane Ai Pin like him Rabbit R1 They ended up being two great technological fiascos. None met expectations, and today both products are practically missing from the map. The optimism of Musk, Gates, Zuckerberg or Altman is striking, but today the mobile seems to continue having rope for (much) time. Image | Xataka with Grok In Xataka | Rabbit R1 and the Humane Ai Pin are too green. It turns out that we already have the best AI device in the pocket

In 1996, Bill Gates saw Microsoft’s dominance in a revolutionary technology

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The recent history of technology has left countless samples that, being a reference in any sector is a double -edged sword. On the one hand, it allows you to act from a position of domination of the market, but on the other it makes you Diana of all your competition. In 1996, Bill Gates, one of the most men influential and rich in the worldhe had a great concern about him advance of a new technology that took the dream: Java, a tool that, as Gates himself confessed in an email, threatened Microsoft’s dominance In the market. Bill Gates’s great fear was not Apple According to a conversation revealed by The X accountInternal Tech Emails, in September 1996, Gates admitted Nathan Myhrvold, then Microsoft technology director and Coinventor of more 800 patentswhich was “literally losing the dream” due to the impressive ability of Java. In his mail, Gates was worried about not finding a Strategy to protect Microsoft of The huge possibilities that offered this new technology. “It seems that people could make people make competitive operating systems,” wrote the millionaire. To deal with this threat, Myhrvold wanted to take some seriousness to the matter, and proposed A strategy based on “adopt and extend”. A winning plan, although controversial This tactic consisted of two main parts: first, Microsoft would announce its support for standardization and collaborate with other organizations to develop that technology among all. Then, in the “extend” phase, Microsoft would implement the Java standard, but would add exclusive and differentiated features For Microsoft users. This would create one competitive advantage for your company and would motivate users of other brands that only offered the “basic standard”, to change the products of the Gates company. Myhrvold’s strategy turned out to be very effective for Microsoft since it managed to consolidate the Windows leadership in the market, with functions that no other operating system offered. However, it was also considered abusive. The United States Department of Justice came to “adopt, extend and extinguish” In one of your opinionsdue to the negative impact on the competition that this strategy proposed by Myhrvold had. There is always a stalking risk That a millionaire like Gates ensure that a new risk makes him “lose sleep” is no exception. Much less in the technological field, where innovation Makes the highest towers fall and makes David more insignificant into an untouchable Goliath overnight. Ask Nokia Oa Deepseek. In fact, the fear that an enemy arises from nothing and ruin all work What your company has done is a recurring fear in the CEO of large companies called “CEO paranoia“ Jensen Huang, CEO of one of the world’s greatest technology, claims to be obsessed with making a mistake in your management and that your company is ruined. “I think that when you built a company from scratch, you have experienced real adversity and have been about to close several times, that feeling remains with you,” said Huang in a Interview at the New York Times Dealbook Summit. For its part, Peter Beck, founder and executive director of the aerospace company Rocket Labhe was also very concerned about the decisions he made at the forefront of a company that participates in the current space race. “I can’t imagine getting home and sleeping deeply every night; that is simply tangible,” assured Beck a CNBC. Jeff Bezos, after raising two empires from nowhere in two different sectors, also confessed that one of its main fears They were the garagesreferring precisely to Two students from a garage They could develop the next great technological idea that unbank their companies in the current domain position. In Xataka | In 1980, Bill Gates delivered 8.75% of Microsoft to sign his friend: today Steve Ballmer is richer than Gates Image | Flickr (Billionaires Success)

Bill Gates has a fortune of 107,000 million dollars and his collection of watches is not worth more than $ 100: but they are jewels

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The Microsoft co -founder has been one of the richest people in the world for almost four decades, and today It holds a fortune of 107.6 billion dollarsaccording to Forbes. During that time, his taste for watches has been molded. Unlike Mark Zuckerberg, who has directed his collection of watches towards models of more than 1.3 million dollarsGates’ tastes are much more practical. Gates’s watches Rather Collect high -end watches as they usually do The millionairesBill Gates maintains a curious fidelity that goes back several decades ago with a Japanese brand: Casio. This choice reflects its pragmatic approach in terms of meaning that watches have For the millionaire, being an object with a functional end and not as a complement of luxury and ostentation of its wealth. Gates has at least three different models of this Japanese brand, famous for its reliability, durability and a functional design that is again fashionable with the return of the 90s aesthetics. One of the watches that has been seen most on Bill Gates’ wrist is the hard casio, an analog diving clock. One of those occasions was during Your visit to Harvard University In 2018. This model, also known as Casio Marlin MDV-106-1AVstands out for its water resistance (up to 200 meters), with a stainless steel box and black sphere, all for a price less than 70 euros. However, one of Gates’s favorite watches is even more minimalist and sober, betting on a completely black finish. It is the Casio MRW-200H-1B2Va light clock without great pretensions that has LED lighting, long -term battery, water resistance, stopwatch and a price that Round the 20 or 30 eurosdemonstrating that it is not necessary to spend a fortune to have a functional and reliable accessory. Another of the usual models in the Gates wrist is Casio W214H-1AV Illuminator Sports Digital Chrono Watch. Unlike the previous ones, the W214H is completely digital and retains a very marked novelty aesthetic. Its price ranges from the 20 and 30 eurosalthough being an already discontinued model they can only be found in the second -hand market. The “nokia” of the watches Gates’ loyalty for the Japanese brand is not an exception or an exclusive fixation of the millionaire. Casio was one of the most relevant brands in electronic watchmaking in the late 80s and 90s, with such models mythical and indestructible such as F-91Wwhich continues for sale 30 years after its launch. Thanks to that Nostalgic factor Already the extraordinary reliability and simplicity of its watches, the brand has resurfaced strongly in recent years with reissues of its old models for The nostalgic that we have spent much of our life with a casio on the wrist. Some even see it as A future proposal. In Xataka | There is nothing wrong with you comparing you with a casio: how their watches made him a glorious brand Image | Casio, Flickr (Ted Conference)

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