May 9, 2020 – I’ve started with Network Society Ventures a new open and live startup pitching series, Network Society Ventures Pitching Live (NSVPL), streaming on YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. NSVPL is open to startups from all over the world. Do you want to partner with NSVPL? Let me know!  

April 27, 2020 – Is thinking of your home as a spaceship a useful metaphor? As we execute carefully planned Extra Vehicular Activities (EVAs: the weekly grocery shopping in masks and gloves), the circular nature of flows of our homes may become clear. Only 100% sustainability will let us last.  

April 18, 2020 – A petition to extend the Italian government’s so-called “Italy Care” decree to translators has been signed by several international authors. Organized by the “Strade” union of translators in the publishing sector, the petition asks the Italian government to include workers like translators subject to the copyright regime in the decree. The

March 22, 2020 – The Dotwords offices in Milan and Turin are closed, in compliance with the

March 21, 2020 – Technology made it possible for teams whose members are not physically together to collaborate effectively. There are multi-billion dollar companies with over a thousand employees, and no offices.  

March 10, 2020 – The experience of online events is real and valuable as physical ones. If you are a conference organizer, a speaker, an exhibitor, you are scrambling with the restructuring of your activities.  

March 7, 2020 – The efficiency of a system is its ability to produce a certain amount of output per unit of input. Its resilience is its ability to withstand extreme variations in the conditions under which it must function.  

February 25, 2020 – Between 2012 and 2018 the power of the infrastructure available for applications in artificial intelligence increased over three hundred thousand times. If it followed Moore’s law, it would have been much less, around 7 times or so.  

February 17, 2020 – What is the cosmic origin of the elements in the human body? We know we are made of stars. But what kind of stars?  

February 14, 2020 – As our ability to collect data explodes, we must improve our constructive use of it, not only aggregating it through blind algorithms, but using it to build a better world.