Photo by Bruce Sterling The Indro Montanelli park in downtown Milan in three days in May 2014, during WIRED NEXT FEST, was a meeting point of the best of Italian digital culture. Spread within seven dome-shaped tents, from the Museum of Natural History to the playgrounds for children, with free chocolate bars on every stand, the display of the ideas and technologies for future gave me a warm feeling for the prospects of Italian society. Italy is always on the verge of being too conservative, probably because there is so very much to conserve. …
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