An Analog Brain In A Digital Age | With Marco Ciappelli

Influencers help brands to sell products by creating content on social media — the concept is certainly not new. How about virtual ones? It depends on what we assume "virtual" means because, in the advertising field, it is not new either. The technology makes this different, but humans are still in the machine. The point is that testimonials have been around since the beginning of advertising, as such virtual ones. You can think of celebrities, authorities in the field, fictional characters, and

Even if you want to refuse to look up or you believe the Earth is flat, it doesn’t change the truth about Space Exploration: it has an impressive track record of improving our life here on the ground. So many aspects of our well-being, our security, and the growth of humanity as a whole depend on it.In this podcast, we are joined again by our long-time friend Steve Luczynski from the Aerospace Village and our new friend Renee Wynn, former CIO at NASA.The stories they shared with us kept us glued to

Some say that nobody wants war, and yet here we are. They are different because technology has changed, but they still suck. Is there a clear distinction between cyber and kinetic warfare? Does it even matter? What can we learn about it from this war in Ukraine?Despite the distinction between different kinds of war for headlines and panel conversation, war is war. Under that horrible word, you can line up as many strategies, tools, and methodologies as you like, but once something is used as a

Cryptography is now everywhere in the online world; but how do we know that it’s doing its job properly?Security of “messaging systems” like WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. How do they work? What security do they offer? How do we know they're any good?And those are just a few questions for today's reality where we tend to trust that the cryptographic algorithms in user are fairly resilient. What Impact will quantum computing have on cryptography in the future; a reality we must prepare for since

Positive cultural and societal changes do not happen in a day, but they need to start somewhere, and indeed they do not happen by magic. Education is a key driver that can promote, facilitate, and speed up such changes.Contact of different societies, technological evolution, and geographical and ecological factors can initiate societal changes that can take quite some time. Still, sometimes we need to improve our communities faster, which is when movements and organizations can speed up the pace.In

The Metaverse, VR, XR, and much of the social technology we are developing today can and should be used for good. We have an ample opportunity to use it for good or look back one day and regret we didn’t.In this conversation, we spoke about what is the driving force that is leading the commercialization of VR, XR, and the Metaverse, but also all the paths we could take to create a virtual world that doesn’t have to carry the bias we are trying to fight in the one where we live our daily life, for