2020_11_30_NT

University of Navarra sociologist Javier García-Manglano investigates in a article published in the University of Navarra journal Nuestro Tiempo the implications of inventions such as Replika, a chatbot that claims to know its Username better than any flesh-and-blood person. The article, graduate El algoritmo emocional, is the topic cover story of issue 708, which has just been published and asks the following question: Can a robot be a human being's best friend?

For Professor García-Manglano, "the real danger is not that Replika becomes our best friend; it is that our real experience of friendship or love is so poor that we end up settling for a virtual substitute". "The solution," he continues, "does not require demonizing technology, but reflecting on the causes that lead us to expect from it something that, because it is profoundly human, only another person can give us.

In these pages you will also find the signature of George Weigel, biographer of St. John Paul II, who has provided Nuestro Tiempo with the Spanish translation of the new introduction to his portrait of the Pope, "The End and the Beginning. Likewise, the University of Navarra's masthead deals in this issue with topics ranging from the Jewish Holocaust to journalism in Liberia, as well as a profile of today's university students.

As for the life of campus, the issue includes several stories about Tantaka, the University's solidarity time bank, and a essay by Full Professor Jaime Nubiola on the power of words. It also continues with "Los de la maleta", his series on the early years of the institution, with interviews with professors Manuel Casado and Edurne Cenarruzabeitia.

Increasingly digital

Among the new features of this quarter, the magazine incorporates the possibility of a digital subscription to its new weeklynewsletter, which offers every Monday a new article along with some recommendations of books, movies and series. In addition, the magazine has adapted its digitalperiodicals collection , which contains all the pages published in Nuestro Tiempo, to make it accessible from all devices.