Il 2020 doveva essere l’anno dell’ebook. Ma qualcosa è andato storto (e non è il coronavirus).

Money quote: “And in part, Albanese tells Vox in a phone interview, that’s because the digital natives of Gen Z and the millennial generation have very little interest in buying ebooks. “They’re glued to their phones, they love social media, but when it comes to reading a book, they want John Green in print,” he says. The people who are actually buying ebooks? Mostly boomers. “Older readers are glued to their e-readers,” says Albanese. “They don’t have to go to the bookstore. They can make the font bigger. It’s convenient.””

https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/12/23/20991659/ebook-amazon-kindle-ereader-department-of-justice-publishing-lawsuit-apple-ipad

L’evoluzione dei robot: arrivano quelli con il senso del tatto - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/tech-zone/levoluzione-dei-robot-arrivano-quelli-con-il-senso-del-tatto/

Facebook pronta a lanciare l’anti TikTok, in arrivo Reels - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/facebook-pronta-a-lanciare-lanti-tiktok-in-arrivo-reels/

Un paper sui tre approcci della Artificial Intelligence rispetto alla società negli Usa, Uk e Ue.

Money quote: “In October 2016, the White House, the European Parliament, and the UK House of Commons each issued a report outlining their visions on how to prepare society for the widespread use of artificial intelligence (AI). In this article, we provide a comparative assessment of these three reports in order to facilitate the design of policies favourable to the development of a ‘good AI society’. “

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11948-017-9901-7

John Lewis: “My philosophy is very simple: When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just, you have to stand up and just say something. You have to do something. I got into good trouble, necessary trouble. Even today, I tell people, ‘We need to get in good trouble.’”

Nassim Nicholas Taleb è infastidito. Altro che cigno nero. Il coronavirus è stato ben previsto ed era evitabile.

Money quote: “Besides, the pandemic was wholly predictable—he, like Bill Gates, Laurie Garrett, and others, had predicted it—a white swan if ever there was one. “We issued our warning that, effectively, you should kill it in the egg,” Taleb told Bloomberg. Governments “did not want to spend pennies in January; now they are going to spend trillions.””

https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-isnt-a-black-swan-but-a-portent-of-a-more-fragile-global-system

Negli Stati Uniti si stanno rendendo conto di essersi messi nei guai da soli. Trump è il figlio dell’America, non solo la sua nemesi.

Money quote: “We uphold the value of robust and even caustic counter-speech from all quarters. But it is now all too common to hear calls for swift and severe retribution in response to perceived transgressions of speech and thought. More troubling still, institutional leaders, in a spirit of panicked damage control, are delivering hasty and disproportionate punishments instead of considered reforms. Editors are fired for running controversial pieces; books are withdrawn for alleged inauthenticity; journalists are barred from writing on certain topics; professors are investigated for quoting works of literature in class; a researcher is fired for circulating a peer-reviewed academic study; and the heads of organizations are ousted for what are sometimes just clumsy mistakes. Whatever the arguments around each particular incident, the result has been to steadily narrow the boundaries of what can be said without the threat of reprisal.”

https://harpers.org/a-letter-on-justice-and-open-debate/

Proseguendo il discorso del messaggio precedente, la lettera di dimissioni di Bari Weiss dal New York Times, dopo l’assunzione che aveva l’obiettivo di portare un po’ di conservatorismo in un giornale dalle opinioni liberali che aveva completamente mancato di prevedere il fenomeno Donald Trump. Una lettera pesante che spiega come il problema non sia solo di una parte degli elettori o dei giornalisti o dei politici. La responsabilità è comune.

Money quote: “But the lessons that ought to have followed the election—lessons about the importance of understanding other Americans, the necessity of resisting tribalism, and the centrality of the free exchange of ideas to a democratic society—have not been learned. Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else.”

https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

Chiude Odessa, uno dei tre grandi ristoranti alternativi del Village di New York

Money quote: "It was like a time capsule and a love letter to the East Village of three decades earlier. But even then, I could see that the restaurant’s days were numbered. Not only was the value of frontage on Tompkins Square zooming, but this kind of food was becoming increasingly less popular. Yes, you can still get it at places like Veselka (opened 1954), but now the troika of Kiev, Leshko’s, and Odessa will all be shuttered, depriving the East Village and its arts scene of an important vestige of its culinary history."

https://ny.eater.com/2020/7/14/21322961/odessa-closure-east-village-robert-sietsema-lookback

Digital tax, l’alert di Ibm: “No a ritorsioni contro l’Europa, per gli Usa effetto boomerang” - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/digital-tax-lalert-di-ibm-no-a-ritorsioni-contro-leuropa-per-gli-usa-effetto-boomerang/

Leica presenta la nuova M 10-R, la fotocamera d'elite diventa ancora più potente - il mio articolo per IlSole24Ore

https://www.ilsole24ore.com/art/leica-presenta-nuova-m-10-r-fotocamera-d-elite-diventa-ancora-piu-potente-ADVukxe

La prima cosa che mi ha attratto di questo articolo è la foto di apertura, che avevo visto anche io sui siti dove si distribuiscono foto gratuitamente per scrivere. Bella immagine, evocativa. L'idea dell'articolo, invece, è singolare: a differenza della retorica che circola adesso per cui lo smart work è qui per restare, secondo l'autore dell'articolo invece le cose non stanno così.

Money quote: "I haven’t had the “good fortune” of working from home during the quarantine season. I’ve still been going into the office each day, but I am experiencing the effects of 1/3 of my staff working from remote locations, including their homes. I am very much looking forward to having my team back together in the same location."

https://medium.com/swlh/remote-work-is-not-here-to-stay-9ef4f0f8f169

Dal 5G all’iperautomation: gli 8 trend che cambieranno lo scenario 2020 - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/dal-5g-alliperautomation-gli-8-trend-che-cambieranno-lo-scenario-2020/

La svolta green di Apple: nel 2030 totalmente carbon free - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/news/2020/07/21/news/la-svolta-green-di-apple-nel-2030-totalmente-carbon-free-1.39108066

Ulysses 20 analizza come scrivi e porta il cruscotto su iPhone, iPad e Mac - il mio articolo per Macity

https://www.macitynet.it/ulysses-20-analizza-come-scrivi-e-porta-il-cruscotto-su-iphone-ipad-e-mac/

Altro che bicicletta della mente: il condor delle Ande fa cento miglia con un solo battito delle ali

Money quote: "For the first time, a team of scientists strapped recording equipment they called “daily diaries” to eight condors in Patagonia to record each wingbeat over more than 250 hours of flight time.

Incredibly, the birds spent just 1% of their time aloft flapping their wings, mostly during takeoff. One bird flew more than five hours, covering more than 100 miles (160km), without flapping its wings.

“Condors are expert pilots but we just had not expected they would be quite so expert,” said Prof Emily Shepard, a study co-author and biologist at Swansea University in Wales."

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/13/andean-condor-fly-without-flapping-wings-flight-bird

Arrivano le nuove app! - il mio articolo per Anobii

https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/07/22/arrivano-le-nuove-app/

Occupazione in chiaroscuro nei social: TikTok assume, Linkedin taglia - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/occupazione-in-chiaroscuro-nei-social-tiktok-assume-linkedin-taglia/

Obiettivo 100% carbon free nel 2023: la svolta green di Apple - il mio articolo per CorCom

https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/obiettivo-100-carbon-free-nel-2023-la-svolta-green-di-apple/

Da Apple a Google, da Uber a eBay, ecco i segreti degli store digitali - il mio articolo per La Stampa

https://www.lastampa.it/tecnologia/idee/2020/07/22/news/da-apple-a-google-da-uber-a-ebay-ecco-i-segreti-degli-store-digitali-1.39112545

Negli Usa il consumo di carta igienica è esploso e non dà segni di voler rallentare. Ecco come ha fatto a reagire il mercato dei produttori

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVcqbqpMfQY