In Argentina I studied Communication Sciences at Buenos Aires University and Journalism at T.E.A School of Journalism.

I worked for three years as a Junior Editor in a magazine called Uno Mismo (a kind of mixture between Whole Earth Catalogue, Yoga Journal, Psychology Today and Wired -but with a Latin American touch). I also worked as a free-lance journalist in techno-publications (PC Users, Virus Report) and newspapers (Clarin, Pagina 12)

Abstracts of some of my published articles

• New technologies to learn and think with: Kids that program and design their own robots. Clarin (September, 1995) Mitchel Resnick and the Epistemology Learning Group the Media Lab at the MIT. Lego-Logo and the programmable brick.

• Digital technology: The age of the hyperinstrument. Clarin (November, 1994) Digital technology Symposium organized by the Media Lab at the MIT. Tod Machover and Neil Gershenfeld's hyperinstruments.

• In the name of the son. Uno Mismo (September, 1994) New artifical reproduction and clonning technologies: ethics and science.

• Hackers: The anger of the F.B.I. Pagina 30 (September, 1994) A comparisson between hacker's worldview, history, ideology and rebelion in USA and Argentina.

• Emmanuel Goldstein and 2600 magazine. Virus Report (August, 1994) Interview with the 2600's publisher and hacker guru in New York. Hackers and virus.

• Ciberpunks in the search of power. PC Users (July, 1994) Ciberpunks from literature to culture and technology.

• Climbing the Mountain. Uno Mismo (September, 1993) Far from being part of the landscape, mountains are the main entrance to climb up, not to Heaven, but to the Earth, man's kingdom, which is far better. One can find fellowship, challenge and meetings with life and death in this article where several expeditions (including several to the Aconcagua) are described.

• Text Navigator. Uno Mismo (July, 1993) Hypertexts on multimedia in education environments: tools to represent our inner processes of knowledge building. Through the maps of paths that guide us along our navigation, we can go through the mirror (as Alice in "Through the Looking-Glass") and reconstruct how we navigate the information, what interests us and what didn't succeed in getting our attention and which patterns link the chosen nodes. Step by step we can trace the clues that lead us to the user's identity and to his cognitive styles and skills. Hasn't our educational system replaced the mirrors with boards, the insight with data transmission?

• A call for attention. Uno Mismo (June, 1993) From Jules Verne and his imagined submarine to the cyberpunks narrators that describe technology internalization in our own body, science fiction invites us to become aware of the possibilities and issues of new discoveries. Mythology of the technological era, it finds in the young cyberpunks (an alliance between the high-tech and the contra culture of the eighties) its best speaker.

• Mathematics-minded speaking. Uno Mismo (June, 1993) Mathematics is a language unknown by most of the people because of the poor education received at a schooling system that associates calculating with reasoning. Computing language LOGO and the Turtle are a good example of how a child can learn mathematics as a living language. Based on this conception, in La Plata, Buenos Aires, Prof. Alfredo Palacios helps children to develop their capacity as mathematics "readers" and to build up the logical skills claimed by mathematics. The same ones that through the centuries have enabled man to develop writing and to abandon the oral world, in sum, to enter the world of abstract thinking.

• The Unbearable Lightness of the Theories. The skeptical double edge. Pagina 12. (June, 1993) Co-author: Alejandro Piscitelli. Science and New Age: an epistemological point of view.

• System of Knowledge, System of Ignorance. Pagina 12 (March, 1993) Co-author: Alejandro Piscitelli. A debate on epistemology and the social construction of scientific facts.

• Virtual becomes reality. Uno Mismo (January, 1993) Plinio tells that potter Dibutades' daughter, sad because her lover was leaving on a trip, drew her shadow on a wall with a piece of coal. The following day, her father gave volume to the body with a lump of clay. This beautiful myth talks about the prehistory of virtual realities. About man's ancestral desire to keep the absent present with a simulacrum. Centuries later, science made artificial reproduction more accurate trying to involve in this process the biggest number of senses. Virtual realities open the questions about how technology is capable of modifying the body and the conscience. Rather than satisfying our curiosity about other worlds, virtual realities allow us to know this world.

• I believe, then I exist. Uno Mismo (November, 1992) Someway or other we all believe in something: God, our home land, the football team, television, science, a political party, the psychoanalyst, the family. Believing is a system one can never leave. No belief is innocent because it generates daily truths and, therefore, ways of behaving according to our own truths. Different from each other, beliefs have passion as a common denominator. Whether we like it or not, whether we know it or not, beliefs guide our lives.

• Maturana: Broadening our sight. Uno Mismo (August 1992) Interview about biology and cognition with biologist and epistemologist Humberto Maturana.

• Beauty of the fractals. Uno Mismo (June, 1992) Fractal geometry, which studies the patterns of irregular, uneven and fragmented objects, such as they appear in nature, not only opens the possibility of creating computer art, but it also shows the importance of studying the laws of chaos and chance so that we can understand the world of complex relations we live in.

• Science Fiction for Personal Computer? Uno Mismo (May, 1992) Literature in book format changes its leather cover and progressive pagination for a little diskette that, paradoxically, offers more space. Axxon is the first Argentine electronic science fiction magazine painstakingly worked out by two passionate youngsters. Free and with over 8 thousand readers, Axxon tries to spread the name of local writers of a gender that is still alive even though many of it's dreams have come true.

• Chip Therapy. Uno Mismo (February, 1992) Dr. Sbaitso, a computer program which represents a rogerian psychiatrist, is the successor of the program Elisa, designed by Joseph Weizenbaum in the sixties. Technology, far from making us lose our humanity - as inveterate romantics fear - allows us to find ourselves in the intimacy of a conversation.