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02/10/2024

Ep.212 - Perché il governo polacco ce l'ha coi castori

Dopo le recenti alluvioni, il governo polacco ha deciso di dichiarare guerra ai castori che, con le loro dighe, metterebbero sotto pressione argini e corsi d’acqua. Ma che soprattutto hanno un peso elettorale inaspettato.

02/10/2024

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6 min
09/11/2023

Ep.39 - Salvare l'Antartide con una bici

C’è una fetta del nostro pianeta che non somiglia a niente altro, per clima, vegetazione e condizioni di vita. Vita che, almeno per gli esseri umani, tra l’altro, è quasi impossibile, se non per brevissimi periodi e con attrezzature speciali. Questo posto si chiama Antartide. Ed è in pericolo. Per questo, un ciclista italiano ha deciso di attraversarlo sui pedali, da solo.

09/11/2023

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9 min
03/10/2024

Ep.213 - La musica è un buon affare

Il mercato europeo della musica vale più di 5 miliardi di euro e continua a crescere. Ma il dato più importante rivelato dal primo report sul mercato europeo della musica è un altro: e cioè che ogni euro investito in musica ne produce, a vario titolo, 1,8.

03/10/2024

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6 min
06/11/2023

Ep.36 - Economia, chi cresce e chi no

Lo scenario economico mondiale è complesso per tutti. Ma non per tutti lo è allo stesso modo. Per esempio, nonostante le difficoltà, l’economia americana sta crescendo a pieno ritmo, mentre quella europea appare ferma. Perché? Cosa fanno negli Stati Uniti che noi non sappiamo o non vogliamo fare?

06/11/2023

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8 min
04/12/2023

Ep.56 - Il Nuovo PNRR

Pochi giorni fa la Commissione Europea ha accettato le modifiche al PNRR chieste dal governo italiano. Le modifiche influiranno non tanto sulle cifre complessive stanziate, quanto sul modo e sugli scopi con i quali saranno spesi: più investimenti per i grandi progetti, meno per le iniziative locali e dei comuni.

04/12/2023

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7 min
06/12/2023

Ep.12 - Artificial intelligence and war games

The debate surrounding artificial intelligence is dominated by the concept of “existential risk”, or the fear that we as humans feel that an invention can get out of our control. Humanity is facing the dangers of a sudden technological paradigm shift, just like at the times of nuclear energy and the Bomb. Unlike the Cold War, though, there’s no logic of deterrence and no principle of containment. Artificial intelligence is the brainchild of a few choice individuals in Silicon Valley, but it has thousands of implications and multiple potentially devastating risks. So, we can’t possibly hope to contain it unless we imagine a pervasive and permanent surveillance state, and even that might not be enough. The audio inserts you hear in this episode are taken from Wargames, a 1983 film directed by John Badham and produced by MGM/UA Entertainment Co., available on Prime Video.

06/12/2023

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11 min
20/12/2023

Ep.14 - The five days that did (not) shake OpenAI

The latest earthquake to shake Silicon Valley was last Friday 17th November. The epicenter was at 601 Mission Street, San Francisco, headquarters to OpenAI – the leader of the AI sector. In less than a week, the CEO was first ejected and then reinstated on his chair. The tremors at the top of OpenAI are the final act in a secret war between the two factions of techno-optimists and techno-critics, who fear humanity’s loss of control over AI. But the real plot twist is the entrance on the board of Lawrence Henry Summers, the tight-rope walker, the fabricator: the mastermind behind American capitalism of the last thirty years.

20/12/2023

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12 min
13/12/2023

Ep.13 - Artificial Intelligence between the apocalypse and techno-optimism

It’s called Artificial Intelligence as a Service, and it’s the AI of our near future. It’s practical, easy to use, and available to all: just like electricity. It seems to be a revolution, but the debate is raging, and many are starting to push back against it. The doomsayers on one side – warning against the risks of unbridled growth of AI, and the ultra-optimists on the other – such as American entrepreneur Marc Andreessen and his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto”. It might seem impossible to balance out relentless technological acceleration against the containment of AI’s uncountable permutations, but this is exactly what we’ll need to do if we want the thinking machines to be a new lightbulb that illuminates our planet, rather than a new doomsday device which could destroy it. The audio insert you hear in this episode is taken from The Matrix, a 1999 film directed by Sister Wachowski and produced by Warner Bros, available on Netflix.

13/12/2023

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11 min
17/01/2024

Ep.17 - The crisis of global routes

In the last few weeks, we’ve seen a new danger for global markets. The raids of the Houthi, a Yemenite rebel militia supported by Iran, have blocked one of the arteries of global commerce: the Red Sea route on which 12 percent of global wares and about one third of containers travel. Several shipping giants have suspended the passage of ships in the area. The price of oil is rising, while the costs of transport between Asia and Europe are soaring. The latest emergency is worsening the crisis of international balance in the frame of a general trend that, along with the Sars-Cov-2 pandemic, is turning the twenties of this century into the age of de-globalization.

17/01/2024

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14 min
10/01/2024

Ep.16 - Finance and the best of all possible worlds

Looking at the main financial indicators, the situation at the start of 2024 looks better than the most optimistic predictions. Inflation is dropping, American growth is constant, unemployment is stable under 4%. The equity sector and Big Tech shares are all booming. The markets are telling the fairy tale of the best of all possible worlds, but reality is quite different. On our planet Earth, we can see the shadows of a looming third world war and a ruinous environmental crisis, while the assets of globalization are in tatters. Finance looks more and more like a magician’s mirror, distorting perspectives and tricking the eye to guarantee the perpetuation of the present state of affairs.

10/01/2024

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12 min

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