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At our studio, we are no strangers to the technological revolution: AI + Bitcoin, which we are currently experiencing and which will affect all humans in general and artists in particular. For our part, we will introduce here, step by step—news by news—the new digital tools that we will be using, and we encourage you to try them out so that you can stay connected in the best way possible.
** Software for 2026 ** PRIVACY & INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY **
Let’s start with an email service that allows you to send encrypted messages from sender to recipient. For this, there’s nothing better than ProtonMail, a service founded in Switzerland with open source code supervision. If you still use Gmail or another outdated service, you should know that everything you write there is monitored and your data is used for marketing purposes to benefit your provider without your consent. If you are already aware of all this and want to take steps now to stop feeling spied on, you will love ProtonMail.
An encrypted email is the first essential step. But ProtonMail also offers many other services that will allow us to defend our right to privacy, such as an encrypted drive for private collaborations and even a Bitcoin wallet. We’ll tell you more about this in a few weeks.
MANUEL starts a new season
In September, I finished a new composition project and launched my website, including some samples, which I encourage you to check out here.
In October, my collaboration with the Orquesta y Coro Filarmonía was consolidated. We opened the new 2025-2026 season with Haydn’s The Creation, and on this occasion I had the opportunity to contribute with some special subtitles, as they included images of Art masterpieces that contextualized some crucial moments in the libretto. Here is an example...
On its 25th anniversary, the Filarmonía orchestra is revisiting some of its most iconic pieces, and I am delighted that my work has been so well received. I am particularly excited about this because I believe it completes the experience and makes it easier for new audiences to become better acquainted with Filarmonía’s extraordinary repertoire.
Next Concert at Auditorio Nacional with Filarmonía: Amor Brujo y La Vida Breve from Falla…
In addition to the rehearsals with Filarmonía, I am making progress with arrangements and orchestrations, teaching piano... and I have taken charge of a small choir with which we are beginning to prepare a Christmas concert. I will tell you more about this in November.
Thank you very much for staying with us. I am deeply grateful to each and every one of you for your interest in what we do.
GEORGINA tells you about…
“Life After Capitalism: The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money” de George Gilder *
I have audio-read Life After Capitalism-The Meaning of Wealth, the Future of the Economy, and the Time Theory of Money, via Audible, which is what I’ve been doing for a while now to give my already tired eyes a rest. It’s a book in which he develops a thesis on the economy towards which the world is moving.
I liked it almost as much as Life After Google, which I read at the beginning of my journey into the Internet of Value when I discovered Blockchain technology. Since then, I haven’t used Google, and that has allowed me to educate myself at my own pace and with a much more critical spirit, in fields that the search engine (which sells itself as a “behavior predictor”) would surely never have suggested to someone with my profile. If you want to evolve, you need to take control, which is somewhat what Gilder sees as possible in the future.
* For those unfamiliar with George Gilder, suffice it to say that he is a highly respected liberal economist and a visionary who predicted the major changes of the 20th century. His ideas have also been followed in China, a country he has visited on several occasions and whose economy he has studied with great interest due to its enormous development.
In the future, Gilder places the individual as the main driver of progress, based on four essential pillars:
Wealth is Knowledge
Growth is Learning
Information is Surprise
Money is time
Personally, I am left with three fundamental ideas that are already influencing my way of seeing the world at the present moment. That is why I am sharing them here, expressed in my own words.
For innovators, only information or news that comes as a surprise is worthwhile: only surprises trigger individual creativity for problem solving. Surprises open windows from the known to new solutions, always in a very personal way. The connection between the known and the truly new is what ignites creativity.
Gilder proposes a way of measuring the evolution of the price of goods and services: how many hours of work are required to earn the money needed to pay for a good or service? Capitalism and Communism (Smith and Marx) agree on measuring value in terms of the hours of work spent on production. If we follow Gilder and think of examples throughout history, we realize that today everything is much cheaper than before (traveling, communicating over long distances, accessing music, etc.). This reflection highlights the power of progress. It is a more realistic and optimistic view, which focuses on human beings and their time—not on business.
Capitalism and Communism are both essentially materialistic economic systems, which progress will eventually overcome, as human beings gain independence from those who administer them. A courageous message that forces us to consider our responsibilities.
Now, What do YOU think about all this? 🤔
You can find video summaries of the book and numerous equally interesting interviews with the author on the Internet...
In November, I hope to tell you about another book, but I honestly don’t know which one to choose: Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age, or The Bridge Where Butterflies Live? Luckily, Mirlo has come to my rescue...
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Have a nice weekend!
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