Conversation Agent - Valeria Maltoni

The Most Important Question: How do you Know?

The amount of knowledge we generate and store is growing exponentially. Much of what you learned in school or in the early years of your work has likely changed. It takes a little effort to stay up to date. It costs a lot to stay behind. The speed at which you need to make decisions has accelerated. This begs for getting your hands on reliable information and knowledge fast. Fortunately, there are also many more ways to gain insights and the skills today. It takes little effort to stay up to date. But you score no points for trying, effort... Read more →

What is High Resolution, what is Low Resolution. Can we Tell?

Many authors and journalists know how to write, few know how to be read. Few writers have the gift of introducing the reader to the pleasure of reading. It's a gift we receive from select classics. In Italy, Idro Montanelli had the gift of knowing how to reduce concepts to the essential ideas without subtracting depth from his message. Thus starts a review of Massimo Mantellini's Low Resolution. In the short book (Einaudi, 2018), Mantellini says with depth that the Internet has radically changed our approach to information, social relations, markets and culture. We traded higher resolution experiences with music,... Read more →

Is Culture a Choice?

In 1999, four entrepreneurs, technologists, and thinkers assembled 95 theses around a central theme: The Internet has changed how we communicate. Christopher Locke, David Weinberger, Rick Levine and Doc Searls explained that markets are made up of people. Ten years on, many companies still struggle with The Cluetrain Manifesto's original message. Doc Searls is still writing about providing tools for individuals to manage relationships with organizations. Customers free to select the experiences they want are more valuable, says Searls. But, while “the flywheels in the selling machine are huge,” the buying tools are still inadequate or lacking. The automation people... Read more →