Federico Faggin is an icon, a hero to all scientists and technology enthusiasts. Through his inventions, from the microprocessor to the touchscreen, and his pioneering studies of neural networks, he has helped shape the present we all know. But his research has continued and gone much further, overturning the ‘mechanistic’ paradigm whereby consciousness is an epiphenomenon of the brain, a by-product of matter. The divine in the universe is within us and creates through knowledge. Quantum events are intrinsic to the visible world, they cannot be copied or cloned: they are private. According to Faggin, consciousness and free will are intrinsic to the quantum micro-world, and dense matter is an epiphenomenon. Faggin will discuss these issues with Alessandro Barban, former Prior of the Camaldolese Monks.

«Food is no longer nourishment and therapy. Rather, it makes our bodies sick through bad habits that favour quantity over quality. It makes our souls sick because it triggers severe social injustice. And it makes the planet sick because it is one of the biggest contributors to the climate crisis, for which it will pay a very high price.» “Carlin” Petrini is very determined, and has been so for some time. Activist, writer and gastronome, Petrini is the founder of the Slow Food movement (now in its 40^th year) and of the first University of Gastronomic Sciences. Once again, he has turned his attention to food, insisting on the need for nutritional education through proper schooling: an invaluable tool for achieving the more sustainable future that the new generations are already demanding.