“Reading” in the digital cupboards. And in Florence there is Testo-Corriere.it

The Milan hinterland has earned the name Cloud region. Similar to London, Frankfurt, Amsterdam or Paris, it is becoming increasingly overcrowded there Data centers, very specific places where digital universes are stored: sensitive data and IT activities from companies, the financial world, banks and of course our digital lives. Many billions are being spent on the development of these data centers (and our country is becoming increasingly strategic given its location on the Mediterranean, a bridge to other continents): 15 billion investments are expected annually in Italy alone.

La Lettura entered one of these super-protected hyper-technological vaults and reports on the experience in the new issue of La Lettura, No. 638. Saturday, February 17th in the app and Sunday, February 18th at the kiosk. Annachiara Sacchi’s report takes the reader beyond the steel barriers and passwords of American Equinix’s ML2 data center on Via Savona in Milan and shows that data cathedrals are not just intangible clouds of digital code, but occupy large spaces with entire naves, gates, boxes, Padlocks, imposing humming wardrobes guarded 24 hours a day, physical locations with a futuristic and slightly mysterious character.

The focus is on different aspects of the “digital present” and future, such as saving energy in data centers or the dark side of the world on the Dark Web. The physicist Carlo Rovelli thinks about artificial intelligence Starting from basic linguistic models, but also natural, i.e. human, intelligence, in order to reflect on the actual benefits of ChatBots. We continue with Cecilia Bressanelli’s article about a challenge between a debut author and an artificial intelligence that starts from the same plot; and with Danilo Zagaria’s review of Giovanni Ziccardi’s guide to the dangers of the Internet (Poisoned data, Raffaello Cortina); In addition, other aspects of digital life are analyzed in the texts of Massimiliano Bucchi, Carlo Baroni and the linguist Giuseppe Antonelli.

Other topics covered in the issue include a review of the new investigation into the Cormoran strike, Lurking Grave (Salani, in bookstores from February 20th) signed by JK Rowling with her pseudonym Robert Galbraith, about whom Severino Colombo writes; and Elizabeth Strout’s new title, Lucy in front of the sea (Einaudi), which the narrator Marco Balzano reviews. A little girl risks losing her eyesight and her grandfather takes her to the Louvre to show her the masterpieces: this is the plot of Novel by the French art historian Thomas Schlesser
The eyes of the Mona Lisa (from February 20th in bookstores for Longanesi), which Stefano Montefiori writes about. In the app “La Lettura”, the topic of the day, there will be an extra digital preview of Schlesser’s novel on Saturday, February 17th.

In addition to the daily topics and the new edition of “la Lettura”, there is already a preview of the “la Lettura” app for smartphones and tablets on Saturdays the entire archive of supplementary editions published from 2011 to present, divided by year, also searchable with an advanced search engine. AND the original, Texts of great writers, published in Italian translation on “la Lettura” and available here in the original language. It can be downloaded from the App Store and Google Play. The app subscription can also be subscribed from the desktop From this page. The content is also visible to subscribers on their profile page on PC and Mac. One year of the “la Lettura” app can also be given as a gift using the “Give a gift subscription” option, available at WHO.

Back to the supplement: The special issue (8 pages) is dedicated to the conclusion of the new edition Florentine festival Text. How to Become a Book
(from February 23rd to 25th at Stazione Leopolda), with interventions by Simone Innocenti, Ermanno Paccagnini, Demetrio Paolin, Alessandro Beretta, Cristina Taglietti, Vanni Santoni and Marzia Fontana and with a text by the Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou, who is a guest on the 25th of the event with the new one Lie down in the store (66th and 2nd); also the literary map dedicated to the Florence of writers, edited by Antonio Monteverdi.