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Shkruar nga Massimo Sideri
We often hear it said that Europe is a Manzonian clay pot, squeezed between two iron pots, the USA and China...
According to a joke attributed to Henry Kissinger, when Europe took shape as a political project, it was greeted with this irony: what is the phone number to talk to? While acknowledging that having a single president to communicate with is not always an advantage, any reference to the United States is intentional, this saying, perhaps apocryphal, reminds us that battles are also won with media weapons.
We often hear it said that Europe is a Manzonian clay pot, squeezed between two iron pots, the USA and China. Or that: The United States creates, China copies, while Europe only regulates. One of the most banal summaries of the world. However, as effective as it circulates, it poisons public debates everywhere.
The result is that we live with the feeling that our future has already been colonized. A script written by others, which we only have to interpret. This is the power of propaganda: even in “The Count of Monte Cristo” it is said that a man with a telegraph would already be more powerful than Napoleon with his sword. Precisely for this reason we must recover some narratives capable of gaining ground in the marketplace of ideas, starting from the facts, of course.
Such as, for example, the statistics on supercomputers used for training artificial intelligence. Europe, in Germany, has its first technological “monster”, capable of performing over a quadrillion operations per second. Italy itself has two computers in the world’s top ten: Eni’s HPC6 and Cineca’s Leonardo.
The story behind these successes? You just have to know it. Enrico Fermi, after World War II, returned to Italy and gave a piece of advice: computers would be the new frontier of scientific and technological progress. He was not immediately heeded. But that idea found its way, leading to the projects of the Pisan calculator, the Olivetti, and supercomputers.
As Keynes, who was not at all inclined to romanticism, wrote, there is no scientific reason why an optimistic entrepreneur should be more successful than a pessimist. However, the optimist is more likely to succeed. This also applies to nations. / Adapted from "Pamphlet" by "Corriere della Sera"
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