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“Revolution is a rapture in the course of time”, argues Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, the prominent Iranian scholar referring to the Iranian Revolution of 1979. As a moment of "creative pause" to shape a new order (to quote again Ghamari),…

We have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of complexity that exists in the world. Mickey McManus’s book Trillions noted that as early as 2010, the semiconductor industry had reached the point where they were making more transistors…

"<<Inedito>>. E’ la parola che corre su tutte le bocche dopo gli avvenimenti clamorosi che hanno costellato la protesta dei gilet gialli”. Così comincia uno dei tanti editoriali che il giornale parigino Le Monde ha dedicato ai…

We live in a society that revolves around data. The use of digital data is so all-pervasive, particularly (though not only) in the more industrially-advanced economies, that it has spawned a new ecosystem: the uninterrupted flow of digital…

The days of a vertical hierarchy in news media are over, swept aside by an exciting but unquestionably chaotic breed of horizontal peer-to-peer communications – a form of journalism by smartphone where the rules governing traditional news…