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Book facts

Author
Carlos Galve
Title
Living in Exponential Times
ISBN (paperback)
978-84-09-87761-4
ISBN (eBook)
978-84-09-87763-8
Edition
Self-published, 2026
Category
Essay · Business · Technology
Languages
Spanish, English and Japanese

SynopsisWhat the book is about

What the book is about

A book for understanding AI without panic or euphoria: not a technical book, not a book of predictions — it trains how you look at things so you can decide well inside a change that doesn't move in a straight line.

Artificial intelligence can already diagnose earlier, decide better and create what was recently impossible. But the public debate swings between fear and enthusiasm, when what is really needed is judgment to make the most of it. The book explains what AI is doing to work, companies, education and institutions, drawing on the author's experience and real cases, and offers a practical way to move through an accelerating change. It doesn't teach tools that go stale every six months: it teaches how to read patterns, tell noise from signal, and decide under uncertainty.

The authorCarlos Galve

Carlos Galve

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Carlos Galve — Partner at NTT DATA, investor at Big Sur Ventures and Going Investment, author of Living in Exponential Times.

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Carlos Galve is a Partner at NTT DATA, where he leads the Global Office of AI, Generative AI and Agentic AI. Between 2010 and 2024 he led the NTT DATA Aragón office, with 600 people. He has invested in startups for more than twenty years as a member of the investment committees at Big Sur Ventures and Going Investment, and since 2014 has evaluated Innovation projects for the European Union. Living in Exponential Times is his first book.

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Carlos Galve Pellicero (Zaragoza; a computer engineer with an MBA from IESE) has spent thirty years building, investing and venturing in technology. He has been a Partner at NTT DATA since 2016, where since 2023 he leads the Global Office of AI, Generative AI and Agentic AI; between 2010 and 2024 he led the NTT DATA Aragón office, with 600 people working for public administration, banking, industry and healthcare. He has more than twenty years in venture: he has been a Partner and investment-committee member at Big Sur Ventures since 2020, sits on the investment committee at Going Investment, and since 2014 has evaluated Innovation projects for the European Union. He has founded several companies, including Hipocom, Netfilia Interactiva and Net2u. Living in Exponential Times, published in 2026, is his first book and the result of almost five years of work.

Carlos Galve

Quotes from the bookSix quotable lines

Six quotable lines

  • The right question is no longer whether AI will change your sector. It is whether you will be part of that transformation.

    Chapter 4

  • Automation makes you cheaper; reinvention makes you incomparable.

    Chapter 7

  • This book will not tell you what is going to happen. It will train your eye, so that when it happens, you recognize it before most people do.

    Chapter 1

  • Exponentiality has that cruelty: when it becomes obvious, it is too late.

    Chapter 1

  • Organizations do not die from what they do not know. They die from what they know and do not want to acknowledge.

    Chapter 17

  • AI amplifies what you already are. If you are mediocre, it makes you mediocre faster. If you are good, it makes you extraordinary.

    Chapter 8

FrameworksThe book's original frameworks

The book's original frameworks

The Three T's

Transversal, transformational and transcendental: the three dimensions that explain why AI is not just another technology wave.

The Three A's

Automate, augment, anticipate: the progression that lets you operate at exponential pace without burning out.

The SOX, Exponential Operating System

Six interdependent blocks — Vision, Portfolio, Cadences, Data & AI, People, Governance — that apply to company, person and society.

DownloadsDownloadable material

Downloadable material

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InfographicsVisual material to publish

Visual material to publish

Visualisations of the book's frameworks — the Three T's, the Three A's, the SOX and the 42-folds example — ready to accompany an article.

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In the mediaIn the media

In the media

No media appearances published yet — the first one is on its way.

ContactPress contact

Press contact

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