Trends and lifestyles

Culture, an instrument of change

Culture is the only asset of humanity that, when divided between us all, becomes greater rather than smaller. This quote from German philosopher Hans Georg Gadamer reminds us of the importance of sharing knowledge and offering more learning opportunities to…

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Generation Z, a new beginning

There was a time it was easy to say that young people were a homogenous category, at least since the emergence of teenagers in the 1960s. Rapid changes in technology today divide young people into at least two categories: Millennials…

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Youth do it better

Young people use the internet more than any other generation. That is a well-known fact. This characteristic makes them part of a "virtual world" made up of continuous and multiple interconnections. A unique and ever-expanding network of digital relationships. They…

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Help from citizens

In many Italian cities, people decide to organise themselves to improve the territory where they live and work. Until a few years ago, this choice could create problems for citizens who wanted to rearrange a public garden, paint a school…

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New technologies and daily life

What do we mean when we talk about the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence and big data? We are talking about how technology and innovation are changing the way we live, produce and interact. Concepts that until recently were used…

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Work isn’t what it used to be

Several studies on how work will change over the next few years, thanks to new technologies and the organizational models that derive from them (among others reports by the McKinsey Global Institute), agree on at least two points: firstly, most…

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The Internet of Things

There was a time when many futurologists wondered to what extent the web would change our daily lives, not just our professional lives. In 1995, Nicholas Negroponte, a researcher at MIT Boston, wrote a prophetic text ("Being Digital") that soon…

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The joy of running.

Why do we run? A question that is not always easy to answer. Certainly to stay healthy, but if we consider the impressive growth in the number of runners, this explanation does not seem sufficient. A word from the experts.…

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