The Art of Balance #77 | Andrea Billi, how will you work?
The professor of Economics at the Department of Juridical and Economic Studies of the Faculty of Law of the Sapienza University is the 77th participant in the initiative “The Art of Balance / Pandemopraxy”, launched by Cittadellarte. Andrea Billi reflects on the relationship between dehumanised digitalisation and digital humanism, explaining how he will try to synthesise these two concepts in his professional field. This episode’s guest then talks about the fact that some global technological companies are integrating philosophers and scholars into their teams: “It is a reaffirmation of the uniqueness of the human being,” he said, “and of the brilliant and colourful creativity of the cultural-turned-genetic heritage”.

How will you work?
I will work in a merging zone comprised between the circle of dehumanised digitalisation and the circle of digital humanism.
The world of my professional future cannot be other than a synthesis of these two concepts. The limitations of dehumanised digitalisation, certainly endowed with extreme technological capabilities, will be considered an aberration if it is not supported by a humanistic vision which reinstates the predominance of choice, of analysis and of the ability to synthesise.
I was not surprised when I read that the main global technological companies are integrating philosophers and scholars into their teams: it is a reaffirmation of the uniqueness of the human being, and of the brilliant and colourful creativity of the cultural-turned-genetic heritage.
It had to happen, not so much because of the dreaded and science-fictional notion of machines overtaking man, but because of the long-coveted birth of an area of synthesis, in which the union of two souls transforms into a new strength.
I will work right there in the middle, with the same enthusiasm of pioneers on their discovery journeys.