Are we walking to the Matrix ? Today I read an article about a new gadget launched to be installed at home. According to the article this wonderful device can help all the family in their daily needs, such as weather forecasting, playing music, finding an address or whatever they want to know. You just have to speak and the computer takes action or answers your question with a realistic voice. It's equiped with a webcam, microphone, speakers and, of course is connected to internet. What customers don't know is that this kind of device act as a spy, collection the maximum information about you and your behavior (and of course of all the people who lives in that house). This gadget brings hidden the same strategy that smartphones, smart tvs and other "smart" things we have more and more surrounding us: what they want is collecting your data, your behavior, your life! I think... Is this what we want for our future ? A small group of companies holding all the minds of the planet? it's the beggining of the Matrix! It's terrible for me to see that most of us are not concerned about that! It's unacceptable! We have to stop giving our lives to them in payment for some funny app. Would you, please, think about it ?

Political choice: to think about me or to think about the country Today in Brazil we are facing a very turbulent political time. We had our president impeached by the congress members. Many of the deputies and senators voted to take out the president due to corruption and six months later, we are seeing that these politicians are involved in corruption. And for some of us, the real interest in to change the president is not to finish corruption and just to change the group that want to lead the political power in Brazil. And with this change of political groups, one the most important fact is that the group that ascended to the power was the political group that lost the last election, with a neoliberal proposal of reducing the size of the State, diminishing social programs, selling the great economic values of Brazil to internacional groups and increasing the profits of banks. Supported by the most rich, the media and by the financial market, this new government are applying a neoliberal agenda. They use to compare Brazil economy to first world countries. The perverse on it is that Brazil has too many basic problems not solved yet, such as education, public health system, transportation infrastructure, etc.And of course cannot be compared to those countries. My opinion is that if the size of the State is reduced we will have no money to spend on these basic needs, and Brazil will become more poor with more money on the hands of the riches.