by DR. Ricardo Petrissans | May 3, 2026 | Fight Against Technological Monopolies, The protagonists of IA
Fei-Fei Li’s work reminds us that intelligence is not only linguistic. Humans understand the world through bodies, space, vision, movement, and context. If artificial intelligence remains trapped in text, it remains incomplete.
From Words to Worlds
Large language models changed how machines handle symbols. But the physical world is not a document. It has depth, occlusion, force, risk, and embodied action. Spatial intelligence is the bridge from conversation to reality.
The Importance of Vision
Li’s contributions to computer vision helped make visual recognition a central part of AI. Seeing is not passive. It is a way of structuring attention, identifying relationships, and preparing action.
Robots and Embodied AI
The next frontier is intelligence that can operate in kitchens, hospitals, warehouses, streets, and laboratories. That requires models that understand not only what objects are, but where they are, how they move, and what humans intend around them.
Conclusion
Beyond language lies the intelligence of space. Fei-Fei Li’s perspective helps correct the illusion that thinking is only text. Real intelligence must eventually meet the physical world.
by DR. Ricardo Petrissans | Apr 26, 2026 | Fight Against Technological Monopolies
Sam Altman’s idea of a ten-person company generating a billion dollars in revenue captures the radical compression of business made possible by AI. It is a vision of extreme leverage: tiny teams orchestrating software, agents, infrastructure, and distribution at global scale.
The New Company Shape
Traditional growth required departments: sales, support, operations, finance, engineering, and management. AI agents can absorb parts of those functions, allowing a small team to coordinate systems that once required hundreds of people.
Leverage and Fragility
A ten-person billion-dollar company sounds efficient, but it also concentrates dependency. A few founders, a stack of models, cloud providers, payment systems, and distribution platforms become the entire organism.
The Labor Question
If companies can scale revenue without scaling employment, the social contract changes. Economic value may grow while job creation weakens. That is a profound challenge for policy and education.
Conclusion
Altman’s scenario is plausible because AI multiplies leverage. It is unsettling because modern societies still rely on employment as the main bridge between productivity and livelihood.
by DR. Ricardo Petrissans | Mar 15, 2026 | Fight Against Technological Monopolies, geopolitics, States and technology, Technofeudalism
Palantir Technologies stands at a crossroads. It has become a major actor in defense, intelligence, health, finance, and artificial intelligence, but its growth also places it under increasing ethical, political, and regulatory pressure.
The Strategic Opportunity
The demand for integrated data systems will continue to grow. Governments need tools for crisis response, cyber defense, logistics, and public health. Companies need platforms that connect operations, risk, and AI. Palantir is well positioned for that demand.
The Ethical Constraint
The same capabilities that make Palantir useful also make it dangerous if poorly governed. Surveillance, opacity, algorithmic bias, and dependence on private infrastructure remain central concerns.
The AI Question
Generative AI gives Palantir a new frontier. AIP can turn questions into analysis and analysis into action. That accelerates operations, but it also increases the risk that humans defer too quickly to machine-generated recommendations.
The Crossroads
Palantir must decide whether it wants to be known mainly as a powerful contractor or as a model for accountable data infrastructure. The difference will depend on transparency, auditability, and limits on use.
Conclusion
Palantir’s future will be shaped by a contradiction: the world needs better ways to understand complexity, but it also fears the concentration of analytical power. How Palantir handles that contradiction will define its next decade.
by DR. Ricardo Petrissans | Mar 8, 2026 | Fight Against Technological Monopolies, geopolitics, Technofeudalism
Peter Thiel’s political influence is not limited to donations or public speeches. It also operates through networks: candidates, intellectuals, investors, writers, and policy entrepreneurs who see technology as a tool for political transformation.
Networks of Influence
The new right is not a single party or institution. It is an ecosystem of ideas, media, donors, and political figures. Thiel’s role within that ecosystem is partly financial, partly symbolic, and partly strategic.
He provides a bridge between venture capital and political insurgency, between technological ambition and institutional dissatisfaction.
The Appeal of Thiel
For new-right voices, Thiel is attractive because he combines success, dissent, and intellectual seriousness. He appears to prove that opposition to the establishment can coexist with technological sophistication and economic power.
Risks and Tensions
The same relationships create tension. Technology thrives on experimentation, but politics affects millions of lives. Ideas that sound bold in a seminar can become destabilizing when translated into government.
Conclusion
Thiel’s relationships with the new right reveal a deeper shift: technology capital is no longer content to influence markets only. It increasingly seeks to influence the political imagination itself.
by Equipo técnico del Laboratorio del Futuro | Mar 1, 2026 | Fight Against Technological Monopolies, geopolitics, Technofeudalism, The protagonists of IA
Peter Thiel’s relationship with the new right is one of the most debated aspects of his public life. His political giving, public statements, and support for unconventional candidates reveal an effort to reshape conservatism around technology, state power, and elite rebellion.
A Different Conservatism
The new right differs from older conservative traditions. It is more skeptical of globalization, more willing to use state power, and more focused on cultural conflict and institutional capture. Thiel’s critique of stagnation and bureaucracy fits naturally into that environment.
Actions and Influence
Thiel has funded candidates and ideas that challenge the Republican establishment. His influence comes not only from money but from prestige: he represents the possibility that Silicon Valley talent can align with a post-liberal political project.
That alignment worries critics, who see the risk of technology billionaires using democratic systems to weaken democratic norms.
Consequences
The consequences are still unfolding. Thiel helped open a path for technology figures to intervene directly in ideological politics. Whether this produces renewal or deeper polarization depends on how those ideas are translated into policy.
Conclusion
Peter Thiel’s new-right connections are not a side note. They are part of a broader question about the political role of technology elites in a century where digital infrastructure increasingly shapes public life.
by DR. Ricardo Petrissans | Feb 22, 2026 | Fight Against Technological Monopolies, geopolitics, Technofeudalism
Peter Thiel’s political thought is difficult to classify. It combines libertarian instincts, skepticism toward mass democracy, admiration for technological founders, and concern that Western institutions have become stagnant.
Democracy and Stagnation
Thiel has often suggested that democratic systems can become slow, risk-averse, and hostile to radical innovation. His concern is that politics rewards consensus while technology requires dissent, speed, and concentrated vision.
This view generates controversy because it can sound like impatience with democratic accountability. Critics argue that speed is not a substitute for legitimacy.
Technology as Political Force
For Thiel, technology is not neutral. It shapes institutions, power, and history. Companies capable of building new infrastructure become political actors whether they admit it or not.
Palantir is one example: a private company whose tools affect state capacity, security decisions, and public governance.
Controversies
Thiel’s support for Donald Trump, his role in the new right, and his criticism of conventional institutions placed him outside the dominant culture of Silicon Valley. To some, this made him a necessary dissident. To others, it made him a dangerous patron of anti-liberal politics.
Conclusion
Thiel’s political thought forces a difficult question: can societies preserve democratic legitimacy while accelerating technological transformation? His answer leans toward founders and builders. The open question is whether that answer leaves enough room for citizens.
