Catalogo Experimenta 06
Catalogo Experimenta 06
Catalogo Experimenta 06
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
especially in the field of telecommunications, transport, and health. And<br />
we will see how all these technologies form a network, a system.<br />
The passage from analogical to digital allowed the entire machine of the<br />
world telecommunications to use the same simple alphabet made up of<br />
only two symbols, zero and one, we refer to words, sounds and images.<br />
And the digital network by now goes from satellites to mobile phones,<br />
to intelligent labels; to local WiFi networks which connect computers<br />
together without the bother of wires. Soon every existing object will<br />
have an address; the refrigerator could communicate with a packet of<br />
butter and advise us that it is almost near the expiry date, the washing<br />
machine will choose the washing programme gathering information<br />
from the intelligent labels sewn on linens. Domotics will help us to control<br />
our houses, make them more comfortable, and save energy.<br />
As far as mobility is concerned even this starts to make a system not<br />
only for that which concerns the infrastructure and the various means<br />
of transport but also with the individual users: the Telepass is the first<br />
timid application of this tendency. The transport system, then, must<br />
always bear the environment in mind: for this reason “Around the future”,<br />
apart from showing how the means of transport are by now conceived<br />
in function of recycling materials, dedicates extensive space to the<br />
technology of hydrogen, the cleanest possible today. We will see as well,<br />
how many inventions are “copied” from nature.<br />
Another trend of “Around the future” is made up of the technology at<br />
the service of health, and in particular to the diagnostic machines which<br />
allow you to always look better in a non invasive manner inside the human<br />
body. A recent research conducted by 225 specialists has identified<br />
the 10 most important medical innovations of the last 25 years: among<br />
these is the magnetic resonance stands out, the CAT. Angioplasty with<br />
the small ball, mammography, the coronary by pass, the hip and knee<br />
surgery. It is not by chance that the Nobel for Medicine in 2003 was<br />
awarded to Paul Lauterbur and Peter Mansfield for their work which<br />
permitted refining magnetic resonance as a diagnostic instrument in<br />
an amazing manner. With the by now well tested game conception,<br />
experimental and immersed, the Esperimenta<strong>06</strong> exhibition “Around the<br />
future” proposes both simple and important cultural objectives. The first<br />
is that of making us aware of the functioning of machines which mostly<br />
are only “black boxes” of mysterious contents. To obtain this each time<br />
it was possible it was tried to bring to light the basic science which is<br />
at the origin of the technologies, making the fundamental value of pure<br />
knowledge understood, indispensable in itself, but also to reach practical,<br />
useful and remunerative applications. Another objective is that of<br />
developing a critical and balanced attitude towards modern technology:<br />
without excessive exaltation but also without prejudice and irrational<br />
demon phobia, we realise how much the modern technologies can contribute<br />
to improving the quality of life. In following this path, finally,<br />
the visitor will discover the importance of scientific culture and connect<br />
it to the fabric of the centres of research and of the high technology<br />
companies of our territory. Fabric to which is entrusted the economic,<br />
industrial and occupational revival of Turin and Piedmont.<br />
11<br />
EXPERIMENTA <strong>06</strong> - INTORNO AL FUTURO: VIAGGIO NELLE TECNOLOGIE INVISIBILI