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Issue no. 1 – 2004

For this Diary, we have chosen to focus on the Calls for Comments, which in recent times have become the mainstay of the Bassetti Foundation’s web publications. We shall also take this opportunity to remind readers that all the Calls for Comments are, as always, accessible via the “Topics” link, which leads to the nucleus ... Issue no. 1 – 2004

13/02
2004 12min
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Issue no. 6 – 2003

In recent months, the site has seen an intensive use of Web Logs (“Blogs”) and interaction with the public through Calls for Comments (CfCs). Our first web space in CfC form was the one conducted by Daniele Navarra in June of this year, entitled “Innovation, Social Risk and Political Responsibility”. Since then we have used ... Issue no. 6 – 2003

03/12
2003 8min
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Issue no. 5 – 2003

The Call for Comments on Innovation, Social risk and Political Responsibility closed on 6 August. In the last intervention, Daniele Navarra, who conducted the initiative, pointed out that “the role of centres of excellence such as the Bassetti Foundation is as much to guarantee that policies that concern the community as a whole are implemented ... Issue no. 5 – 2003

24/09
2003 3min
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Issue no. 4 – 2003

As announced in the previous Diary, on 14 May 2003 Piero Bassetti, as President of the Foundation, gave a lecture at the London School of Economics on “Innovation, social risk and political responsibility”: “(…) We rarely have a clear idea of the relationships between innovation, change, risk and responsibility. Only very occasionally do we consciously ... Issue no. 4 – 2003

30/06
2003 3min
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Issue no. 3 – 2003

In March, page 9 of the Topics section opened with the publication of excerpts from an essay by Adriano Pessina (lecturer in bio-ethics at the Università Cattolica di Milano) entitled “The ‘sense’ of the possible and the horizon of the limit in technological civilisation”. Pessina’s reflections belong to the subject area that we have been ... Issue no. 3 – 2003

15/04
2003 3min
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Issue no. 2 – 2003

In February, the Foundation’s website hosted a seminar entitled “Progress and Responsibility: the transition from science to technology“. The seminar, which lasted about a week, took as its starting point a paper by Giuseppe O. Longo (lecturer in information theory at the University of Trieste). A forum led by Longo himself and coordinated by Corrado ... Issue no. 2 – 2003

15/03
2003 2min
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Issue no. 1 – 2003

Scientific experiments and political decisions; the concept of responsibility undermined; the modernity of the term “risk”; impotence in the face of science and human beings’ desire to overcome their limits: these are the five core concepts around which the ideas that developed into page 7 of the site’s Topics are grouped. The experiment on the ... Issue no. 1 – 2003

15/02
2003 3min
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Issue no. 0 – 2003

The scientific world as possible "supra-government" and the distance between the collectivity and the world of science are the two strands along which the issues in page 6 of the site’s Topics section are structured. "If it’s Possible it will Happen", the first of these, is made up of questions and answers. It sets out ... Issue no. 0 – 2003

07/01
2003 3min
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