According to Alec Ross, American technology expert and former Senior Advisor for Innovation during the Obama administration, we need to see this time of crisis as an opportunity to rethink the future of our economy and society
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Law professor Cass R. Sunstein explains: present bias is the tendency to be satisfied with a small reward today rather than waiting for a greater reward in the future, for example by investing in ourselves and our education
The point of view of Vincenzo Galasso, Professor of political economics at the Bocconi university in Milan
The electric vehicles industry is sparking off a demand for new professions and skills sets. At stake: environmental sustainability and the future success of carmakers
A new book published by Franco Angeli entitled Basta chiacchiere! Un nuovo mondo del lavoro (Enough Talk! A new world of work) identifies the key challenges that every business sector is facing in the wake of the pandemic, from agile work to the need for new models and improved labour protection. We take a closer look with Luca Solari, Professor of Organisation Theory at Milan University.
Online platforms will enable remote meetings in virtual workspaces with almost no latency. And employment contracts will need some adjustment to allow for continued education
We will make it despite everything. Journalist Ferruccio De Bortoli is certain that the title of one of his latest books is true.
The Italian Labour Minister Nunzia Catalfo and the trade unions have held their first meeting and work has now begun on creating a minimum pension guarantee for those who entered the working world after 1996 and who, as a result of their intermittent careers, risk getting a very small pension check when they retire.
This pandemic has shaken our social bonds, breeding fear and anxiety. Yet, from this state of risk and vulnerability in which we find ourselves, a society can emerge that is stronger, freer and with a greater capacity to collaborate.
We can only anticipate dangers and overcome fears if we understand that risk has now become the center of life for each and every one of us. A little vocabulary to understand and act
éric Sadin is a writer best known for his research on digital technologies and their impact. A controversial position that he voiced at the The Frame: Human Innovation conference held by Kpmg and Corriere della Sera. We will be less called to give instructions to machines and more so to receive them. This is how artificial intelligence undermines our right to self-determine
There is a generation, as Francesco Vecchi, a journalist from the Italian TV channel Canale 5 explains in his book I figli del debito. Come i nostri padri ci hanno rubato il futuro (Children of debt. How our forebears stole our future) Piemme, that is kept hostage by the consequences of the big black hole in the State budget
Our country should stop selling cars with diesel or petrol engines by 2035 and switch to electric cars. New skills, new professional profiles and more research will be needed
“Psychology and the Good Life”, taught by Laurie Santos at Yale, has become the most popular course in the history of the prestigious American university. Yet there is no shortage of examples in Italy as well
Software developers, engineers and computer scientists will be leading the first phase of creating a virtual reality for avatars. But eventually a detailed world will have to be created, and this will only be possible with architects, designers, mathematicians and many other professional profiles.