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Last Issue: #31 The Journey
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea by Jules Verne (1825-1905). This book is the answer to my thoughts on travel. It certainly anticipated the saga...Read more
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Magazine -> #13 Conscious projectEach second that passes means three more people are living on our planet. The demographic explosion - that has taken the world's population from 1.6 billion people at the beginning of the twentieth century to 6.12 billion at the start of the new millennium - is accelerating at an alarming rate, seriously threatening the planet's survival. The ec...
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Magazine -> #14 RefreshFour years on into the new Millennium and Europe has turned out more than 500,000 new EAN codes, those thick and narrow bars that adorn the packaging of all sorts of consumer products (source: AC Nielsen). In the UK, for instance, up to 700 new entries have been counted a week. These hefty figures are one of F the most ostensible examples of the...
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Magazine -> #15 Techno-ecologyFrom declaration of intent to reality. We’re talking of the Kyoto protocol, which has come into full force and effect. The priority is now to cut back on the emission of gases, especially carbon dioxide, suspected of being the leading cause of global warming. It’s the first albeit perhaps too late step in the direction of attempting to offse...
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Magazine -> #17 SerendipitySerendipity’s an attitude of mind that’s more than ever a must in today’s world. Be it in our everyday lives or in our professional capacity, an open mind quick to catch on to whatever’s innovative and foresightful enough to perceive its potential means, being able to exploit opportunities that would otherwise slip us by. We’re caught up ...
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Magazine -> #18 Food for the mindI met the suggestion that I write something up on the topic of “food for the mind” with enthusiasm. Not only do I find it stimulating, but it’s also very topical. Our physiological needs, as Maslow calls them, including self-security, a sense of communal belonging and esteem, have been fairly much appeased in the West; we’ve peaked his famo...
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Magazine -> #6 OrientationThe best way to predict the future? Plan for it, give it form, mould it around one’s dreams. Work at it, build it up bit-by-bit, clearly setting down the goals to be achieved, the route to be followed, the actions to be taken. Keep one’s gaze fixed on the objectives, objectives that should be outlined from the start and whose contours come into...
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Magazine -> #25 InnovageInnovage may be one of the latest buzzwords, but the concept it refers to, and which I deem to be very important, has a far longer legacy. Take for instance the worldwide success of “Made in Italy” brands, or rather of the Italian houses behind these much coveted brands. Their not-so-secret secret lies in their ability to combine and blend the ...
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Magazine -> #5 The Dictatorship of the Consumption“My wardrobes are packed, I don’t know where to keep my clothes anymore; and yet, I still feel as if I have nothing to wear.” I’ve happened to hear people saying this sentence or something very similar to it. It can be understood in different ways: “I have a lot and it’s still not enough” or “I don’t have the right clothes to wea...
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Magazine -> #16 Beautiful and well madeBeauty is not an end in itself nor is it merely a semantic concept that may translate into French as “jolie” or into Italian as “bello”. Beauty is something of far greater width, breadth and depth; it may refer as much to individuals as to objects, to ways of doing things, to production processes even. It’s only in the eighteenth century,...
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Magazine -> #24 Self PortraitThe House of illycaffé is heading for its seventy-fifth anniversary this year. When approaching these milestones the need to stop and ponder, to do a bit of stock-taking, to snap a self-timer shot of corporate performance and achievements thus far, is felt more than ever. The very title of one of the major events to celebrate, with all our collabo...
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