(by Alessandro Capezzuoli, ISTAT official and manager of the Aidr professions and skills data observatory) Opinion is one of the worst evils that afflicts modern culture. To build an opinion, no talent is needed: just read some news superficially and draw hasty and inaccurate conclusions. To build a culture, however, it is necessary to study a topic in depth. For […]
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(by Alessandro Capezzuoli, ISTAT official and head of the Aidr professions and skills data observatory) The empirical evidence shows that any idiot, over time, if properly trained, can carry out the most disparate jobs. He can also learn to kill, and be killed, if he is convinced that he is on the side of the "good ones", and that war [...]
read more(by Alessandro Capezzuoli, ISTAT official and manager of the Aidr professions and skills data observatory) The word competence is ambiguous and illusory at least as much as the word falling in love. For both it is difficult to give a definition, even if, for the second word, George Bernard Shaw somehow did it, defining falling in love as an immeasurable exaggeration of the difference between a person [...]
read more(by Alessandro Capezzuoli, ISTAT official and head of Aidr data observatory professions and skills) The digital transformation of human relations began many years ago, and was not born with instant messaging systems. She is the daughter of an unsuspected culprit named link. Or, better, hyperlinks. I have always believed that hyperlinks are among the [...]
read more(by Alessandro Capezzuoli, ISTAT official and manager of the Aidr professions and skills data observatory) Open, updated, structured, machine readable and accompanied by metadata: the data produced by the Public Administrations, to be truly usable, should have at least these characteristics. For decades now, we have been hearing about the numerous possibilities offered by data and the effects, in terms [...]
read more(by Alessandro Capezzuoli, ISTAT official and manager of the Aidr professions and skills data observatory) In the 50s, George Brassens wrote a song called The Gorillas in which, through a brilliant metaphor, he was able to describe with irony and lucidity a concept very dear to philosophers since the time of Aristotle: the difference between idea and action. Just [...]
read more(by Alessandro Capezzuoli, ISTAT official and head of the observatory data for professions and competences Aidr) And yet it moves, Galileo did not say, because in reality the phrase was coined by Giuseppe Baretti, to abjure his own abjuration. This contradiction would be enough to realize how fascinating and controversial is the story of this man, who contributed [...]
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(by Alessandro Capezzuoli) Paraphrasing Edison, it could be said that the discourses on digital transformation contain 99% of crap and 1% of content. The word fuffa probably derives from the masculine noun “fuffigno”, used in Tuscany to indicate the entanglement of the threads of a skein. This image is very representative and perfectly summarizes the content of this [...]
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(by Alessandro Capezzuoli, ISTAT official and manager of the Aidr professions and skills data observatory) Science, a word that derives from the Latin scire, to know, is based on sharing. Unshared knowledge and knowledge are of little use to collective growth. Newton, in a letter addressed to Robert Hooke, wrote a sentence that perfectly summarizes this concept: [...]
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