WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:02.244 The biggest limitation, 2 00:00:02.457 --> 00:00:05.817 when implementing information technology, 3 00:00:06.077 --> 00:00:09.972 data management, or digitalization, 4 00:00:10.432 --> 00:00:13.358 is a limitation of education. 5 00:00:13.479 --> 00:00:17.512 A development, a research we are working on, 6 00:00:19.307 --> 00:00:24.483 is that of reading, interpreting, gathering the billions of... 7 00:00:25.333 --> 00:00:29.889 or zillions of data that we produce nowadays. 8 00:00:30.562 --> 00:00:33.495 In one day, in the world, we produce the quantity of data 9 00:00:33.678 --> 00:00:36.979 that in the 19th century we produced in one century. 10 00:00:37.191 --> 00:00:40.031 The biggest limitation, the greatest barrier, 11 00:00:40.226 --> 00:00:42.736 is the education of people, 12 00:00:42.944 --> 00:00:46.279 they have to understand that they need the IT, 13 00:00:46.669 --> 00:00:49.776 and that they should participate in its development. 14 00:00:50.011 --> 00:00:53.371 Data are part of human heritage, 15 00:00:53.596 --> 00:00:56.435 I am not that scared, 16 00:00:56.696 --> 00:01:00.604 for me it's an opportunity not to make things easier, 17 00:01:01.131 --> 00:01:05.520 or to have phones we can play with more and more, 18 00:01:06.451 --> 00:01:10.916 but rather a way of using, without losing value, 19 00:01:11.100 --> 00:01:14.148 the data we produce. 20 00:01:14.355 --> 00:01:18.956 I don't believe that data alone are the only solution for the future. 21 00:01:22.279 --> 00:01:25.069 The hardware still has its importance. 22 00:01:25.398 --> 00:01:29.850 By hardware I mean the physical part of the product, of technology, 23 00:01:30.945 --> 00:01:32.969 of the application. 24 00:01:33.190 --> 00:01:37.621 Software is what is intangibly operative. 25 00:01:38.014 --> 00:01:42.140 There isn't only one solution, we will not become slaves, 26 00:01:42.467 --> 00:01:45.820 even if we already are partly enslaved in its use, 27 00:01:46.013 --> 00:01:49.456 but we won't become slaves of software technology, 28 00:01:49.673 --> 00:01:54.151 because we will always need a hardware component. 29 00:01:54.542 --> 00:01:59.564 Obviously, human beings must protect themselves 30 00:01:59.879 --> 00:02:01.873 from such a development, 31 00:02:02.083 --> 00:02:05.404 because technology can harm you at some point. 32 00:02:05.730 --> 00:02:08.655 Nowadays, there already exist robots, 33 00:02:08.894 --> 00:02:12.543 that thanks to AI programs, 34 00:02:14.254 --> 00:02:18.525 already have 50% of the abilities of their human owner. 35 00:02:18.925 --> 00:02:22.815 When young people ask me what the keys to success are, 36 00:02:23.032 --> 00:02:26.302 what they should do, 37 00:02:26.541 --> 00:02:29.777 I always answer: passion, 38 00:02:30.024 --> 00:02:33.471 which for me is always number 1 39 00:02:33.709 --> 00:02:37.134 both in your professional and private life. 40 00:02:37.350 --> 00:02:40.674 Second, a suitcase in your hands, today much more than before. 41 00:02:40.908 --> 00:02:43.132 And a little bit of luck. 42 00:02:43.338 --> 00:02:47.100 These are the ingredients to be a successful person. 43 00:02:48.365 --> 00:02:52.821 Even if achieving success is always hard. 44 00:02:55.252 --> 00:02:59.464 Then you must develop resistance to efforts, 45 00:02:59.682 --> 00:03:04.386 psychological resistance to difficulties. 46 00:03:04.767 --> 00:03:07.782 That is the final ingredient, 47 00:03:08.041 --> 00:03:11.969 it makes you feel like you have got there, 48 00:03:12.289 --> 00:03:17.987 it means knowing how to manage loneliness, 49 00:03:18.973 --> 00:03:22.599 how to manage moments of unpopularity, 50 00:03:22.810 --> 00:03:26.781 difficulties that you know you have to solve by yourself. 51 00:03:27.130 --> 00:03:29.423 At the beginning, you ask yourself some questions, 52 00:03:29.608 --> 00:03:32.187 what comes now? What's behind the corner? 53 00:03:32.376 --> 00:03:34.670 Where do I see myself in 5 years? 54 00:03:34.898 --> 00:03:38.102 When you start, you start in a very impersonal way, 55 00:03:38.296 --> 00:03:41.174 in a banal and sometimes frustrating way. 56 00:03:41.454 --> 00:03:45.280 Then you try to understand, mile for mile, 57 00:03:45.468 --> 00:03:49.088 what life has in store for you. And you never find it out, 58 00:03:49.304 --> 00:03:52.980 you find it out at the last minute, when they’ll offer you a job, 59 00:03:53.197 --> 00:03:57.498 and you must be ready. When the right opportunity comes, 60 00:03:57.650 --> 00:04:01.109 it doesn't come by registered mail, a month in advance, 61 00:04:01.276 --> 00:04:03.660 with the map of the place you'll have to go to, 62 00:04:03.854 --> 00:04:07.728 and a copy of your job description, it comes when it comes. 63 00:04:08.132 --> 00:04:13.080 Step by step, one must learn how to seize opportunities, 64 00:04:13.369 --> 00:04:18.334 and how to create your own opportunity, that's important. 65 00:04:19.152 --> 00:04:24.018 If you feel that your mind, your heart, 66 00:04:24.204 --> 00:04:26.979 is taking you in one direction, because you like it more, 67 00:04:27.217 --> 00:04:30.154 or you feel you are being truer to yourself, 68 00:04:30.382 --> 00:04:33.075 you have to try to create the right situation. 69 00:04:33.274 --> 00:04:36.385 If you let the river carry you away, 70 00:04:36.602 --> 00:04:40.212 you will hardly get out of the riverbed. 71 00:04:40.529 --> 00:04:45.074 I've worked in the medical sector for 25 years, 72 00:04:45.703 --> 00:04:50.989 I absorbed a language, a knowledge, a competence, 73 00:04:51.215 --> 00:04:54.355 and I could be mistaken for a doctor. 74 00:04:54.974 --> 00:05:00.646 At times, some friends asked me for advice, 75 00:05:00.890 --> 00:05:03.880 in a profession that wasn't mine. 76 00:05:04.295 --> 00:05:06.713 Then I changed my job, 77 00:05:06.937 --> 00:05:09.926 I started dealing with industrial automation, 78 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:13.558 I had to study everything from scratch again. 79 00:05:13.784 --> 00:05:16.138 One day a person said to another: 80 00:05:16.324 --> 00:05:20.756 "When Golla speaks, at a medical congress he sounds like a doctor, 81 00:05:21.280 --> 00:05:24.995 at an automation congress he sounds like an engineer, 82 00:05:25.617 --> 00:05:29.041 at an economy congress he sounds like an economist". 83 00:05:29.597 --> 00:05:32.405 That comment was exaggerated, 84 00:05:32.756 --> 00:05:37.181 but I think it caught my ability to be professional, 85 00:05:37.454 --> 00:05:40.455 not because I feel like it's my duty, 86 00:05:40.656 --> 00:05:44.001 I'm professional for passion, for pleasure.