If you want to understand “what happens to our lives” with technology, you will surely not find a better teacher than the president of Indra, Marc Murtra, who as a guest at a Vanguard Forums meeting dedicated to the impact of technological advances on society , made us attendees who filled the MGS Auditorium in Barcelona understand the changes that are happening around us in an increasingly accelerated way.
Murtra did it from the position of a citizen of Barcelona, ??among an audience in which there were, as he confessed, many followers of his Barça and – fair play always – “some of Espanyol”. These are times of uncertainty, where advances such as artificial intelligence will most likely change the world around us.
Murtra asked how many people in the auditorium used chatGPT. Many hands raised but not all. He recommended to them that they start rehearsing with this new digital revolution with which we have an assistant who works “well and for free.”
Murtra’s pedagogy, an engineer by profession, on technological advances illuminated many things, such as when he explained that the business strategy that leads to success involves “risk and return” inseparably, “like a Catholic marriage.”
During question time, he addressed all the questions with ease and comfort. How could the Hamas attack occur without Israel detecting it in time? In his opinion, it was “a collapse of strategic analysis.” He did not avoid any questions and we were able to understand that in the process of selling weapons to non-democratic countries there is a protocol in which Indra does not have the last word. The attendees listened with interest to his comments.
In case we had any doubts, those of us who listened to him last night learned that, if ever a Government in Spain decided that the elections would be held by electronic voting, Indra has an “unhackable” system – which cannot be hacked, come on –, but that it He believes that we will continue voting with ballots for a long time. And even he is in favor of paper.
It is not a technological issue. The technology already exists. Everything depends “on the trust of the people.” Anyone can count and handle a paper ballot. With electronic voting you have to trust a few technicians. The role, Murtra made clear, is not dead.
The vision of technology and its impact on society that Marc Murtra offered left us all a little calmer, because he assured that he dreams “of a better future.” Development will bring us prosperity and improvements in people’s lives. He lamented, however, that there is a lack of engineers to achieve everything that Indra projects. A smile and a positive message about “what is happening to our lives.”
