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Il cloud spinge i conti di Sap: superati i 27,5 miliardi di fatturato - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/il-cloud-spinge-i-conti-di-sap-superati-i-275-miliardi-di-fatturato/

Quindici o più anni fa avevo un amico americano che una sera a cena, hamburger e una caraffata di margarita a testa, mi parlò del suo progetto di andare al Burning Man (che all'epoca era poco meno che sconoscuito dalle nostre parti) e mi invitò. Chicken as I am, ovviamente declinai. Ma nella manifestazione ci sono molte cose che vale la pena di vedere e raccontare, nel bene e nel male. Già in passato mi è capitato di citare il festival. Questo articolo è piuttosto interessante perché ne tira fuori un lato oscuro: The God Phone. Money quote: "In 2018, artist Dustin Weatherford stacked seven old cars, one on top of the other, in a piece called Night at the Climb-In. People scaled the structure, navigating the rickety mirrors and rusted doors to the top where they could sip drinks in a canned-ham trailer 34 feet in the air. (Officials from the Bureau of Land Management and Burning Man closed the installation to climbers a few days into the event after someone fell and got hurt.) But the God Phone’s risks felt different from Burning Man’s usual danger. There was no purposeful climb to a precarious lookout, no donning of fireproof gear in preparation for something that was obviously a bad idea. What sort of responsibility did the artists have for this other kind of art, I wondered, the kind where the risks were more hidden? I never thought I’d go back to Burning Man after my God Phone experience, and I definitely didn’t think I’d go back to the phone. But in 2019, I did. I sat there for 24 hours, because I wanted to know if other conversations like mine were happening there. Was the God Phone safe? If someone got hurt, how would we know?" https://longreads.com/2020/01/14/the-god-phone/

Coronavirus e pandemia: cosa sta succedendo? E soprattutto, cosa può succedere? Mentre questa mappa mostra i fololai del contagio in maniera quasi morbosa (perdonatemi il gioco di parole) https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6 e mentre ricordo che ci sono sul mercato non solo documentari di Netflix https://nypost.com/2020/01/23/netflix-releases-pandemic-docuseries-as-coronavirus-spreads/ ma anche videogiochi sul contagio https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/plague-inc/id525818839 Questo invece è uno degli articoli più sensati che ho letto sinora: Money quote: "So how big could the outbreak get? Is this the next pandemic — a disease that spreads globally? An answer to this question requires knowing the answers to two other questions: How easily does the 2019-nCoV spread from person to person, and how deadly is the virus? At the moment, scientists only have informed guesses, which are likely to solidify in the coming weeks and months. But what we know so far is instructive." https://www.vox.com/2020/1/28/21079946/coronavirus-china-wuhan-deaths-pandemic (Intanto, Wuhan in quarantena: https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/01/coronavirus-photos-wuhan-under-quarantine/605605/ )

“Quei due”, i testimonial della nuova Milano - il mio articolo per Fumettologica https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/01/quei-due-faraci-ziche-bonelli-fumetto/

Coronavirus, effetto boomerang su Apple? - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/coronavirus-effetto-boomerang-su-apple/

Protesta “ambientalista” in casa Amazon, il j’accuse di 340 dipendenti - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/protesta-ambientalista-in-casa-amazon-il-jaccuse-di-340-dipendenti/

Suonava la sua musica, stava facendo un concerto a un festival: si è seduto in silenzio, ha chiesto scusa, ha abbassato la testa ed era morto. Se ne è andato così, a 71 anno, sul palco, David Olney. Money quote: "“Olney was in the middle of his third song when he stopped, apologized, and shut his eyes,” Rigby wrote on Facebook. “He was very still, sitting upright with his guitar on, wearing the coolest hat and a beautiful rust suede jacket we laughed about because it was raining like hell outside the boathouse where we were playing — I just want the picture to be as graceful and dignified as it was, because it at first looked like he was just taking a moment.”" https://variety.com/2020/music/news/singer-david-olney-dies-during-performance-festival-1203472389/ Qui una sua interpretazione di "These Boots Are Made For Walkin'" con quattro spettacolari ballerine ("Era ironico, papà?" "Si, figliolo" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tijs8n-4HCA

Se serve, una rappresentazione grafica online dell'andamento del Coronavirus https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd40299423467b48e9ecf6

Dieci anni fa l'iPad ha cambiato il mondo. E il mondo ha cambiato l'iPad - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/dieci-anni-fa-lipad-ha-cambiato-il-mondo-e-il-mondo-ha-cambiato-lipad/

Nel giorno della memoria, ho recensito per Fumettologica Storia dei tre Adolf di Osamu Tezuka https://www.fumettologica.it/2020/01/tre-adolf-osamu-tezuka-manga/

Quanto sta costando a Boeing la crisi dei 737 Max - il mio articolo per Wired https://www.wired.it/economia/business/2020/01/25/boeing-737-max/

Responsabilità dei contenuti, gli Usa pronti alla stretta sui social network - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/responsabilita-dei-contenuti-gli-usa-pronti-alla-stretta-sui-social-network/

Il ban di Londra non ferma Uber, accordo con Nissan sulle auto elettriche - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/il-ban-di-londra-non-ferma-uber-accordo-con-nissan-sulle-auto-elettriche/

L'influenza del blu di Giulio Ravizza - il mio articolo per Anobii Blog https://blog.anobii.com/it/2020/01/27/linfluenza-del-blu-di-giulio-ravizza/

Recensione Bowers & Wilkins PX7, cuffie a cancellazione del rumore - il mio articolo per Macity https://www.macitynet.it/recensione-bowers-wilkins-px7-cuffie-a-cancellazione-del-rumore/

La "disruptive innovation", il concetto più difficile da tradurre in italiano, è stato creato da Clayton Christensen, studioso scomparso a 67 anni la scorsa settimana. La sua idea, che poi si è trasformata in una teoria, è uno dei motori della nostra epoca (nel bene e nel male). Money quote: "The crux of Christensen’s theory is that big, successful companies that neglect potential customers at the lower end of their markets (mainframe computers, in his famous example) are ripe for disruption from smaller, more efficient, more nimble competitors that can do almost as good a job more cheaply (like personal computers). One need look no further than the biggest names in Silicon Valley to find evidence of successful disrupters, from Napster to Amazon to Uber to Airbnb and so on." https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/24/21080578/clayton-christensen-disruptive-innovation-apple-netflix-steve-jobs

Letteratura o blog? Un racconto nella metro di New York. Buona domenica. Money quote: “A young woman’s tragedy is the world asks too much of her and a young man’s tragedy is the world doesn’t ask enough. I shook my head in disgust. I am older than I think I should be” https://humanparts.medium.com/i-love-trains-84380bc7f864

La grande truffa attorno ad AirBnB Money quote: “The building, on Greenwich Street, was part of a larger enterprise that made more than $20 million in revenue by unlawfully renting 130 Manhattan apartments to almost 76,000 guests through Airbnb, city officials said. The plot was geared toward getting around city regulations that are intended to keep blocks of apartments from being turned into makeshift hotels that avoid lodging taxes and oversight.” https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/23/nyregion/airbnb-nyc-law.html

A spasso con un robot, arriva l’AI che si muove senza mappe - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/a-spasso-con-un-robot-testata-lai-che-si-muove-senza-mappe/

Digital transformation, investimenti “scalabili” raddoppiano il fatturato - il mio articolo per CorCom https://www.corrierecomunicazioni.it/digital-economy/cloud/digital-transformation-investimenti-scalabili-raddoppiano-il-fatturato/