#10 Nomadic knowledge

“Fare forth” is the overwhelming imperative of our times. Each according to her/his life style - on a white sofa fitted with wheels, in a shabby dinghy, or playfully in a portable pool like those invented by Andrea Zittel for personalised caravans in the nineties. We’re nomads, be it for pleasure or out of necessity. It’s a paradox, but ...

In the wide web world knowledge is more dynamic than ever. We discussed the issue and more with Roberto Galimberti, President of Etnoteam, Italy’s leading webdesign and information and communications technology company. To what extent is the net a source of new knowledge? Our time is often referred to as the “Age of Cognition”. What’s m...

Margherita Hack is virtually a youngster out to discover the world. There’s not an article dealing with her, though, that fails to underscore her chronological age of eightytwo. Probably it’s because the interviewer is amazed to find a person whose curiosity and wit are undimmed and indeed as redoubtable as ever. An astrophysicist of internat...

Like coffee, wine has travelled a long way down the corridors of time and space, reaching far and distant lands from its place of origin. A cornerstone and source of wealth of many a civilisation along the course of history, it is a catalyst of social exchange like few others. Wine-making knowledge is extensive and manifold, for it entails knowing ...

How much, do you feel, does literature contribute to the diffusion of knowledge? In so far as they represent possible ways of living, mirrors in which to view ourselves, yardsticks that can help us in making choices and taking decisions, works of literature contribute to disseminating knowledge. The make-believe world of literature suggests that ...

Knowledge is always on the move, more than ever an exploratory practice. It scours its way through territories, comes alive in its relationship with others, and is especially enriched when the lore and learning in one field manage to cut across disciplinary borders and meet up with those in other fields. The works of M.C. Escher, a Dutch graphic...

Here’s a piece of news by the press that’s really digital food for thought: “sharing know-how was akin to blasphemy to Bill Gates; now he doesn’t have any alternative but to share”. It’s a radically new outlook, a complete turn around in the strategy so far pursued by the man, whose company’s cuttingedge on the global market depended...