PUBLIC LECTURE #1 – Towards the Third Life

by Professor Dr Pier Luigi Capucci, NABA International Academy of Arts and Design, Milan, Italy
Date: Friday, November 23, 2012, time: 6 p.m.
Location: Multimedia Centre KIBLA, Maribor

Sciences and technologies deeply influenced the human life. In ancient Greece the average lifespan was 30 years, in the Roman era it was about the same, and by the end of the XIX century it reached 40 years. Today, in roughly one century, in the so called “technological world”, lifespan expectation has doubled. Humans also developed a wide range of artefacts, machines, entities that are quickly becoming more and more powerful, complex, autonomous, and independent. They could be defined to a certain extent as “living entities”, expanding the idea of life and of life forms. All these processes seem pushing forward the human biological, cultural, technical boundaries. How do they happen? What are technologies based on? Can these processes give any glimpses of a possible evolution?