U.D.1 1ºB

The Spanish Economy

The Spanish Economy website provides access to the latest key economic information on Spain in English in a clear and comprehensive manner. It is designed as a tool for English speakers who seek updated information on: comparable macroeconomic indicators and forecasts, public finances, recent financial developments, assessments of current reforms, as well as brief descriptions of future economic policy initiatives of the Spanish government.

The web page will be regularly updated but feel free to contact us if you find that any data are missing or out of date.
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http://www.thespanisheconomy.com/en-GB/Paginas/home.aspx


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Office of the Future

The office of the future is a concept dating from the 1940s. It is also known as the "paperless office". After sixty years of unfulfilled prophecies the phrase "paperless office" has been discredited somewhat. Research and development around the idea continues under the name "office of the future", with quite a few novelties.

Memex desk and related machines

The first practical office of the future concept was probably the series of Memex machines which were presented in Life (magazine) on November 1945. Life magazine hired an illustrator from Sperry Rand to make drawings of the concepts Vannevar Bush had presented a few months earlier in The Atlantic Monthly magazine under the title As We May Think.
The Memex article in The Atlantic is most often cited because of its longer text which details the proposal of a system of shared microfilm based hyperlinks which could be considered as a precursor to the World Wide Web. Those citations tend to overlook the massive organization it would have taken to mail all those microfilm reels between scientists, and eventually between any knowledge worker, in order to make the system work. The citations also tend to overlook that Memex was an entire system, composed not only of a massive desk which housed the microfilm hyperlinking equipment, and the microfilm library but also of a speech activated typewriter (also capable of speech synthesis from normal paper text) and other accessories.

Dynabook slate concept

Many concepts for future computer systems were presented in the 1960s and 1970s, but none really touched office work as much as the Memex or had such a lasting impact. For instance, the Dynabook idea (presented by Alan Kay and the Xerox PARC) proposed a portable slate-like personal computer which could have been used in an office but which was really an extremely personal exploration tool, meant more to draw art, compose music or invent new algorithms than to write a business letter.

Starfire video prototype

Sun Microsystems presented a complete office of the future concept when it made its Starfire video prototype public in 1994. Like the Memex system, The Starfire prototype has been sometimes touted as predicting the birth of the World Wide Web. While it is true that we see the heroine "navigating" what the narrator describes as a "vast information space" this takes up but a few seconds at the beginning of the 15 minute Starfire video.
The Starfire is much more than a Web navigating machine. The Starfire video shows in the rest of the 15 minutes a large panoply of hardware and software concepts such as a gestural interface, total integration with public telephony and other innovations. Like the Memex system the Starfire has a large, massive desk as its central feature, and proposes compatible devices in complement to the desk, such as a laptop with a chorded keyboard and advanced videoconferencing. Bruce Tognazzini was the principal driver behind the project, with the collaboration of many other Sun luminaries such as Jakob Nielsen, and the help of external consultants.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_the_future

EEC 10: Tendencias en comercio electrónico, según Google

MUSIC

CandyShop



See which flavor you like and I’ll have it for you
Come on in to my store, I’ve got candy galore
Dont pretend you’re not hungry, I’ve seen it before
I’ve got turkish delight baby and so much more

(Bridge)
Get up out of your seat (your seat)
Come on up to the dance floor
Ive got something so sweet (so sweet)
Come on up to the front door
I need plenty of heat (heat)
Form a special connection

Just start moving your feet (your feet)
Move on over to me

(chorus)
I’ll be your one stop (one stop)
Candy shop (candy shop)
Everything (everything)
That I got (that I got)
I’ll be your one stop (one stop)
Candy store (candy store)
Lollipop (lollipop)
Have some more (have some more)

NEW CONCEPTS

Español		Inglés
impuestos		taxation
la burocracia		bureaucracy
la demanda		demand
la oferta		supply
el empresario		entrepreneur
comercio libre		free trade
inflación		inflation
crecimiento		growth
labor		labour
la corporación		corporation
el mercado		market
el monopolio		monopoly
la gerencia		management
la tarifa		tariff
desempleo		unemployment
el mercado negro		black market
el estado de bienestar		welfare state

PRESENTATION