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Da Isaac a Elon: il nostro futuro è fra le stelle?

Posted on Nov 8, 2024 in Art and Science, Outreach, Public lecture

Un intervento a Mondofuturo 2024, serie di eventi che accompagnano il Trieste Science + Fiction Festival. Una versione della mia presentazione è stata pubblicata da TuttoScienze del 30 ottobre 2024 su LaStampa.

Il leggendario Ciclo della Fondazione di Isaac Asimov dipinge un lontano futuro in cui l’umanità ha conquistato la Galassia. A questo e ad altri classici della fantascienza si ispirano i nuovi baroni dello spazio nella loro corsa a colonizzare Marte, primo passo verso la creazione, sostengono, di una specie interplanetaria. Tali ambizioni si fondono e si confondono con il ruolo che l’intelligenza artificiale, e altre idee finora fantascientifiche come i robot umanoidi e il trasferimento della coscienza su piattaforme non-biologiche, giocano nel panorama contemporaneo di accelerazione tecnologica esponenziale. Esploreremo questi temi per comprendere assieme se e quale futuro ci possa essere per l’umanità fra le stelle.


From Isaac to Elon: is our future in the stars?

The legendary Foundation series by Isaac Asimov pictures a distant future in which mankind has conquered the Galaxy. This, and other classics of science fiction, are the inspiration for the new space barons in their run to colonise Mars, the first step towards the creation – as they say – of an interplanetary species. These ambitions mix and merge with artificial intelligence, and with other ideas which so far have only been science fictional, such as human-like robots and the transfer of human consciousness to non-biological platforms, concepts which play a key role in the contemporary landscape of exponential technological acceleration. We will explore these themes together to understand whether there is a future (and what it may be like) for mankind among the stars.

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