\u201cFederov\u2019s spaceship is a tin whale, full of mysterious diverticulums and bulging trumpets, which we easily imagine as it sails melancholically in a Russian way towards other galaxies. Goddard\u2019s lunar missile is a huge bullet, with no thrills, pragmatic and Yankee. Esnault-Pelterie\u2019s aircrafts are butterflies with a French elegance about them, while the four-stages rocket with double reaction engines, by the Italian Gussalli, is baroque, starting from its very name\u201d.<\/p>\n
Interplanetary travels \u2013 which in Wu Ming\u2019s new novel Proletkult intertwine with stories of missing parents and reappearing children, of robberies, blood transfusions, chess games and the Communism \u2013 will guide the time-tested meetings of Futurologia on the trail of alien life, in the universe and on the Earth, searching for inhabited (or inhabitable) planets for a human genre which in the future will need to colonize new worlds for its own survival. Indeed, our planet is threatened by climate changes and rising temperatures, and the warning coming from the scientific community is clear: the risks are great and there\u2019s no time to lose.<\/p>\n
Once again, thanks to Futurologia, the morning talks will explore the border between science, literature and science fiction, leading us to reflect on the growingly frequent short-circuit between fiction and reality, and on the innumerable connections between science fiction and scientific research. A typical example is the case of robotics and artificial intelligence. If in the past robots and intelligent machines were the protagonists of science fiction books and films, nowadays they are among us: in factories, houses, hospitals. And in the future, our everyday\u2019s life will be more and more characterized by their presence. At the Italian Institute of Technology experts are already studying the features which robots will need to have to interact as positively as possible with the environment, with people and with each other.<\/p>\n
However, not only is there a robotic revolution going on, but we are actually living a genetic revolution which holds the promise of a longer and better life thanks to the use of stem cells in the treatment of degenerated organs or damaged tissues, of innovative techniques to correct hereditary defects, and thanks to the exploitation of the genes as actual medicines.<\/p>\n
Between docs & talks, in other words, with the contribution of experts and scientists and in collaboration with the scientific institutions of the Trieste System, we will reflect on the future of our species, a recurring issue in the films of official selection of the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival 2018.<\/p>\n
IL PROGRAMMA DEGLI INCONTRI (CAFE\u2019 ROSSETTI)<\/strong><\/p>\n MERCOLED\u00ec 31 OTTOBRE<\/strong> GIOVED\u00ec 1 NOVEMBRE<\/strong> VENERD\u00ec 2 NOVEMBRE<\/strong> SABATO 3 NOVEMBRE<\/strong>
\n10.00 \u2014 2001: Odissea nello spazio. I primi 50 anni<\/em>
\ncon Umberto Guidoni, Lorenzo Codelli, Giuseppe Lippi, Fabio Pagan
\n11.30 \u2014 La Zona. Alla ricerca della stanza dei desideri<\/em>
\ncon Lorenzo Acquaviva, Giovanni Boni, Lorenzo Zuffi. Modera: Massimiliano Spanu<\/p>\n
\n10.00 \u2014 Frankenstein 200<\/em>
\ncon Alfredo Castelli. Modera: Fabio Pagan
\n11.00 \u2014 It\u2019s alive! Alla ricerca del Sacro Graal<\/em>
\ncon Francesco Loffredo. Modera: Simona Regina
\n12.00 \u2014 Not \u2014 Sguardi sul contemporaneo per anticipare il futuro<\/em>
\ncon Valerio Mattioli. Modera: Loris Zecchin<\/p>\n
\n10.00 \u2014 Mondi da abitare e vite aliene<\/em>
\ncon Massimo Ramella, Jonathan Berman. Modera: Fabio Pagan
\n11.00 \u2014 Proletkult \u2014 Lavoratori di tutti i pianeti, unitevi!<\/em>
\ncon Wu Ming 2. Moderano: Andrea Olivieri, Simona Regina
\n12.00 \u2014 Fenomenologia degli zombi<\/em> con Carlo Modesti Pauer<\/p>\n
\n10.00 \u2014 Piu\u0300 umano dell\u2019umano. Robotica e intelligenze artificiali<\/em>
\ncon Daniele Pucci Modera: Simona Regina
\n11.00 \u2014 Nuove eterotopie. I nuovi luoghi della fantascienza<\/em>
\ncon Roberto Furlani, Domenico Mastrapasqua, Alex Tonelli, Bruce Sterling. Moderano: Jasmina Tes\u030canovic\u0301, Gigi Funcis
\n12.00 \u2014 Trieste e la scienza. Una prospettiva cinematografica<\/em>
\ncon Davide Ludovisi, Federica Sgorbissa. Modera: Fabio Pagan<\/p>\n