Since the year 2000, more than two million surgical operations have been carried out with the use of robotic arms. Developments in robotics applied to medicine are ongoing and will revolutionise the sector, although the intervention of humans will always be required
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The IIT Researcher: Nobody believed in the Plantoid. Perhaps, if I had been a man, they might have taken me more seriously. The best work environment? A multi-disciplinary one
The Nobel Prize for Economics winner Joseph Stiglitz reflects about the inequalities that impact society and the role of technology and training in overturning the rules of the game.
Technological innovation is centred on the two keywords transition and redistribution . Conversation with Marco Ratti, Architect and Lecturer at the MIT
Nothing could be worse than closing up like a clam and trying to stem technology because we find it intimidating. All this does is make us lose contact with the frontier of innovation, and turn away the best young talents
Sociologist Pierpaolo Donati, the author of “Quale lavoro-L’emergere di un’economia relazionale , has this to say: “You can not stop technology, but people are irreplaceable. Provided that…”
Since creating the first e-commerce platform focusing on books more than twenty years ago, Jeff Bezos has revolutionised the business models of the most consolidated markets, and seems to have no intention of stopping. The next objective: to conquer space
In Silicon Valley, there is no field in which investments are greater. And the frontier of deep learning, a possibility for machines to learn autonomously, tends to make futurologists very nervous. But some people think we won’t have anything to worry about.
Dialogue with Luca De Biase
From Uber to Deliveroo and Foodora to BlaBlaCar: what is the real meaning of one of the last decade’s keywords?
A training programme for workers of all ages and positions would improve productivity and qualifications of staff, also facilitating their redeployment.
Will technology substitute people? This is not necessarily the case. The new gurus focus on innovative solutions studied to underscore the importance of human work and the related gratification.
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.