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The Grand Duchy of the Former Ban

In the Grand Duchy of the Previous Ban, it all began with two wise laws. The first banned social media for under-16s. The second banned screens for under-threes. No one protested: who on earth would defend screens, social media, or children’s exposure to such influences? The Minister for Universal Protection,...

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Stefano Epifani

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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...

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Digital Sustainability Day 2026: from words to deeds

The fifth edition of Digital Sustainability Day, the Foundation for Digital Sustainability’s annual event, has also come to a close....

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From algocracy to technocivism: digital citizenship of labour and legal...

The emergence of algocracy – understood as the government of algorithms in production and organisational processes – brings about a...