Mondoduepuntozero: Sociologia, Internet, Nuove professioni digitali
17 September 2023
Seven years ago I published an article on Mondoduepuntozero entitled “Hopping: reading by jumping” in which I highlighted new, non-sequential reading dynamics resulting from the massive use of the Internet and from the need, personal or professional, for many of us to operate in multi-tasking mode.
1 July 2023
Internet evolves rapidly, in many, disparate, controversial directions.
The social network phase, in which we all began to experiment with new spaces of aggregation and social confusion, the Google phase, in which we learned to search for anything and settle for the first answer, the multimedia phase that legitimized the term “selfie”, … But today, what phase of the Internet are we in?
22 May 2023
Raise your hand if your agenda is not full of online meetings, meetings to decide, evaluate, clarify, meetings that were already not very interesting in the real world, face-to-face, now digitally transferred into our aseptic “smart-world”. The online meeting. an impersonalized mode of communication, has brought clear benefits in travel, in the management and optimization of working time, in the creation or expansion of work or research teams, in sharing information in real time, but which, at the same time, a little like what already happened with e-mails, has also led to significant distortions in use.
16 April 2023
How can we bring the debate on A.I. and ChatBots onto a concrete level? By briefly analyzing together the extraordinary, extremely timely study carried out by Jan Hatzius, Joseph Briggs, Devesh Kodnani and Giovanni Pierdomenico, entitled “The Potentially Large Effects of Artificial Intelligence on Economic Growth”, produced for Goldman Sachs: a major change just around the corner brings with it indicators, forecasts and statistics that can help us understand and anticipate its scale.
27 March 2023
Who has not noticed, in recent months, a proliferation of articles about ChatGPT and A.I., Artificial Intelligence? The new conversational agents capable of providing intelligent answers have surprised and involved everyone, or almost everyone. In-depth discussions online, in newspapers, on TV talk shows; ethical, philosophical, technological and environmental discussions about what these new agents, capable of conversing, are or will be able to do.
25 February 2023
The publication of the book “Ovunque Internet: emotional and social analysis of the effects the web has on our lives” opened the debate on what will happen in the next decade; above all regarding the scale of the changes and our dependence on the Internet, confirming that, to date, there is no full perception of how much and in what ways the Internet has changed our sociality and how automation is transforming the world of work.
3 January 2023
the new book by Mondoduepuntozero!!!! Ovunque Internet: Emotional and Social Analysis of the Effects the Web Has on Our Lives. In my brand-new book, fresh off the press, “Ovunque Internet” I tell you how the Net has changed our lives, its growing use, patterns of use and, above all, the evolution of the Internet over the next decade.
30 December 2022
Last night I spent a few hours chatting, talking about this and that. Nothing new, you might say; the novelty is that I did not chat with another human being but with a robot, with an automatic conversational agent (a ChatBot): an evocative experience that I want to tell you about.
8 December 2022
While waiting for the new version of the “Digital Global Overview” report, which has become a reference point for all industry experts and Internet enthusiasts, we decided to take another ride on the digital report 2022, with data referring to 2021.
6 November 2022
Internet is a space, a universe, in continuous evolution. Paradoxically, this concept is not familiar to many of us, heavy users of the Network. We fail to acknowledge the role of the Internet, the changes that the Network has produced in the real world, or even the new developments that characterize the Network.
This brief introduction brings us to today’s topic: after purchasing Twitter, Elon Musk decided, to put it simply, to charge a monthly fee for the Twitter Social Network.
22 October 2022
One year after the announcement of “Meta”, Zuckerberg retraces his steps and tells us about the “Metaverse to come”. Integration with one of the best-selling headsets on the market, the creation of Meta Quest Pro, makes the debate about immersive experiences and the future of the Internet topical again.
28 November 2021
The outage of the “social” services WhatsApp, Facebook and Instagram on October 4, 2021 caught all of us somewhat by surprise. How is it possible that these services, always available to everyone, day and night, where we can say everything that crosses our minds, suddenly go offline?
26 September 2021
We describe the evolution of our society toward digital technology. Over the last year and a half we have explained many times, through different examples, how the pandemic and the spread of new digital services have produced, and would produce in the short term, very strong accelerations toward new and unprecedented directions.