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Alexander Fleming: a laboratory accident, penicillin and the antibiotic revolution

You learn from your mistakes, and sometimes you even win a Nobel Prize – all it takes is a bit of observation Today, our time machine takes us back to the early decades of the 1900s, a world far removed from the one we know today. The Great War killed...

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Luca Longo

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UNI 11621-8: professional profiles that make IA governable

With the publication of UNI 11621-8, Italy takes a concrete step towards a structured management of Artificial Intelligence. Clear competences,...

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The permanent party. Neil Postman was McLuhan’s pupil. He understood...

McLuhan said: the medium is the message. Postman added: yes! And the message is changing us into something we did...

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Between Plato, Narcissus and the reality principle: what the new...

What does ‘understanding’ really mean for a machine, in particular for AI, which is, at present, the machine of machines?...

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Artificial Intelligence, Digital Sustainability and Technical Standardisation

There is a question we should ask ourselves whenever we talk about digital sustainability: how do we know if a...

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From global village to global plunder

McLuhan predicted the global village. The global village has arrived. And in the global village nobody reads it anymore. A...

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The Hindawi scandal: the dark side of open-access scientific publishing

How the Wiley Group, the most prestigious publisher of scientific journals, risked its reputation In recent years, the scientific community...