As rational as Spock or as empathic as Louise Banks? Even when we believe we are acting like the most famous Vulcan from Star Trek, guided only by logic, deep down, in order to face the present, we cannot help but listen to and understand our emotions. Just like Arrival’s linguist who manages to crack the language of the aliens who have landed on Earth.
Once again, the TS+FF invites you to join the crew on a journey through possible futures, where science fiction sparks flashes of imagination and science provides the tools to avoid getting lost in the vertigo.
Roberta Villa warns us about the risks of poor prevention and the illusion that money can buy immortality. Beatrice Mautino confronts us with the value of science in our society. What looked like science fiction just a few years ago is now reality: gene therapies are changing the history of certain diseases. And from the first test-tube baby to new drugs for obesity, she reminds us that medicine is the best tool we have to build a better world.
If health is the first area of comparison, identity is the second. Giacomo Moro Mauretto takes us on a journey spanning millions of years to remind us, intertwining genetics, archaeology, paleoanthropology, biology and botany, that there is no such thing as a true Italian. Our roots are a mixture of migrations and intermingling.
The journey continues in the forests of Danilo Zagaria, a green tangle to be preserved and explored, because plants can teach us to imagine new ways of inhabiting the planet.
She then transports us to the cities of the future: the climate crisis is posing new challenges for the liveability, inclusion and social justice of urban spaces and, amid rising sea levels and heat islands, Eleonora Ceschin takes us on a journey through vertical cities, floating cities and cities built under geodesic domes.
Between literary universes and possible futures, Mondofuturo finally takes us into artificial futures with Ted Chiang, contemporary master of science fiction, and Matteo Bordone: will artificial intelligence determine new ways of being creative, new ways of being intelligent and new ways of being human?
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