If they want to understand “what happens in our lives” with technology, they will surely find no better teacher than the president of Indra, Marc Murtra, who, as a guest of a Foros de Vanguardia meeting dedicated to the impact of advances technologies in society, made the attendees who filled the MGS Auditorium in Barcelona understand the changes that are happening around us in an increasingly accelerated manner.
In this case, Murtra explained it from the position of a citizen of Barcelona, ??among an audience in which there were, as he confessed, many supporters of his Barça and – fair play always – “a few from Espanyol” . These are uncertain times, in which advances such as artificial intelligence will most likely change the world around us.
Murtra asked how many people in the audience used ChatGPT. Many hands raised but not all. He recommended that they start practicing this new digital revolution, with which we have an assistant who works “well and for free”.
An engineer by profession, Murtra’s pedagogy on technological advances shed light on many things, such as when he explained that the business strategy that leads to success has “risk and return” inseparably linked, “like a marriage Catholic”.
In the question round, he tackled all the questions with ease and comfort. How could the attack by Hamas be carried out without Israel detecting it in time? In his opinion, it was “a collapse of strategic analysis”. He did not hide from 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 to his comments with interest.
In case we had any doubts, those of us who listened to him last night learned that, if ever a government decided in Spain that elections be held by electronic vote, Indra has an “unhackable” system – that cannot be hacked , wow–, but that he thinks we will continue to vote with ballots for a long time. And he is even a supporter of the paper.
It’s not a technological issue. The technology already exists. Everything depends “on the trust of the people”. Anyone can count and use a paper ballot. With electronic voting you have to rely on a few technicians. Paper, Murtra made it 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 regretted, however, that there are not enough engineers to achieve everything that Indra projects. A smile and a positive message about “what happens in our lives”.