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2023-05-21 22:16:49

Of CARLO BARONI, our correspondent in Turin

The president of RCS looks to the future of the country with optimism: we have demonstrated the ability to react to the difficulties of this historical phase

The role of publishing, the state of health of the country, the technological challenges. Urbano Cairo, president of RCS, visits the Turin Book Fair. In an edition, the thirty-fifth, which does not lack vivacity and presence. At the stand of Solferino and Cairo Editore, the number one of RCS answers the questions of the newly appointed manager of Corriere Torino Carmine Festa.

We are in the realm of printed paper, in the inevitable festival that celebrates books a reflection on the role of publishing. still a privileged tool to be able to bring out the problems – explains President Cairo -. Highlight them and force us to give answers. also a garrison of democracy. It gives everyone a voice and also becomes an audience for minorities who would otherwise go unheard. a goad so that there is everyone’s contribution to improving our society. Publishing makes no one feel left out. As an old proverb says: “The Pope and the farmer know more than the Pope alone”. Meaning that we need everyone’s contribution, everyone can and must give their contribution.

At the moment that Italy is passing through, the president of RCS sees positive in any case. The country – he recalls – is recovering from a long period of difficulty. First the pandemic, then the war in the heart of Europe. But a crisis that has affected the whole world, not just us Italians. we, for, we have always known how to bring out a lot of energy and have resources. In recent months, we have become the first country in Europe in terms of gross domestic product growth. This shows that we have reacted more and better than others to the adversities of the moment. This without hiding the dangers of the current historical phase: I am thinking of the falling birth rate. The demographic emergency requires us to make new choices in order to positively reverse this worrying trend.

The present runs fast, perhaps even too fast for some. How to equip yourself and respond better? The technological challenges – concludes Urbano Cairo – have been questioning us for some time now. Digitization, for example, is already almost the past. Artificial intelligence today and tomorrow. The tools of modernity should certainly not be demonized and rejected. But we must always have a cautious approach. Artificial intelligence must be used without being used. Remembering that it can never replace the human element, the creativity that belongs to us and that no machine can replicate. This is why it is important that there be an ethical limit, rules to prevent this new tool from engulfing us without us being able to exercise any control.

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