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Die Amerikaner träumen groß. Die größten Hamburger. Die größten Hot Dogs. Zum Mond und Mars. Der Football Super Bowl und die Baseball World Series. Die größten Prominenten. Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Michael Jackson, Madonna. Sie waren groß. Sie waren die Stars. Das waren die Prominente im Zeitalter der Massenmedien. Sie waren von uns durch die…

On November 3, 2011, Alan N. Shapiro was interviewed by the Italian journalist Mattia Nicoletti for the Milanese daily newspaper Il Metro Quotidiano. This is the English version of the interview that appeared in Italian. Mattia Nicoletti: Can technology be predicted? How can Star Trek have a vision about future technologies? Alan N. Shapiro: Technologies of…

Alan N. Shapiro interviewed by Erik Aru This interview appeared in October 2011 in the Estonian print magazine HEI: Hea Eesti Idee, an EU publication known as “Estonia’s biggest innovation magazine.” Alan N. Shapiro, a speaker at Tallinn’s Plektrum Festival, talks about how to think about the future, why artificial intelligence research is going nowhere,…

Franco La Polla died in Pavia, Italy on February 27, 2009. From 2004 to 2007, La Polla was Professor of the History of Cinema, and Director of the Department of Music and Theatre (DAMS) at the University of Bologna. For 30 years, La Polla was Professor of the History of American Literature. In the summer…