🔴🌙 Red moon eclipse: A wave of inclusion and post-Summer updates 🌊

🔴🌙 The red moon eclipse

This post comes out after the red moon eclipse weekend: an extraordinary show that graced our skies on the 7th of September. You can find some wonderful videos online to replay such moments e.g. this one on Sky.

Also, this post comes out after the Summer with a few updates on my side, but not on an easy date: September 11th is associated with one of the most dramatic days in recent Western history, I was only 5 years old in 2001 when the U.S. were attacked on 9/11 and the image is still stuck in my head. Growing up I then experienced terrorism also in Europe, often living in distressing situations especially after the 2015 Paris attacks where a fellow Venetian was killed.

🌊 A wave of inclusion

This is is why to me is so shocking to see division, after all this time: to see children dying in Gaza, jewish people being hated in everyday life and people like Charlie Kirk dying for expressing their opinions. On top of that there are women, like Iryna Zarutska who fled the war in Ukraine, that come to the West looking for a peaceful life and end up killed on their way home: this is just one case of many women who walk in fear at night because of how unlivable our cities have become.

This is very disturbing to me, to see a society that moves towards chaos and not harmony more than twenty years after 9/11. A Western world where leaders discuss all the time just to get to more division rather than unity and kids are left alone, it's a hopeless situation. It really feels like a moment in history where not even the Sun would want to shine anymore because if it did it would light up too much horror, that maybe we do not even want to see at this point.

However, I think that there could still be a little bit of hope in realizing that the youth is struggling: I am 29 so I do not consider myself that young anymore, but I do consider myself mature enough to voice the needs of people I see around me. I think that most young people, younger than me, feel very uncomfortable not being taken seriously in their search not for elaborated things like a successful job or money, which could have been the objective of previous generations, but really of just living calmly. Most young people I see are stuck in anxiety about their future and I really don't blame them as the world we live in is changing everyday for the worst and their ideas are barely taken into consideration, with older people thinking they know "what is best" while also destroying our future. As I stand for collaboration and inclusion, I really think it would be time to see young people as equals and to include them in the decision-making process, especially given that most decisions that are being taken will have consequences on them and not on our current leaders.

On the other hand, I think that young people should get out of the internet and start living in real life, realizing that speaking and living in person is going to be the only way to take the future in their hands. This generation, my generation and the younger ones, need to stop living via proxy and hide behind screens. The metaverse is one thing, reality is another and we need to be aware of the distinction before technology advances even more.

I think that we need to integrate tech, such as XR, AI or AGI in our world, but to keep track of what reality really is and what isn't or we are going to go completely insane. For instance, I love art and I love to include details that were not part of that artistic work with AI: below, I included a red moon eclipse in the Hokusai wave. This being said, I am aware that this is a reinterpretation of the original that tech made possible: it's a customization of the artwork thanks to tech. Someone else could add flowers this way and another some stars, but this does not change the fact that the original was different: we need to start realizing the fact that tech is allowing us to shape reality as we like, which is wonderful, but that this does not alter reality itself.

The beauty of reality is that is multi-faceted and that we all have different likes and perspectives yet, this does not change the fact that the sun shines and that the sea has waves. What we need right now is this: a wave of inclusion. We need more and more people recognizing that it's ok to have different opinions and viewpoints, actually, this makes reality more interesting. We need to stop arguing over wether my perspective or yours are right: we created the internet and now we are enslaved to the polarization that social media created in society. The internet polarized democracy and made political speeches too aggressive. We need to start be kind in person now and the internet will follow: we need to go back to a multi-faceted society now that we are building the 3D internet, we need to include everyone in this process, especially young people as they are the future. The era of polarization on social media and in society is over as it only created division.

Red moon eclipse and Hokusai's wave (generated with AI, Chat GPT)

🌱🪻 Post-Summer updates

There are a few things I'd like to update the readers of the blog on and that I will post on my LinkedIn too:

1) The first is that, last August, I became an official ambassador of the Rome Future Week: an outstanding event dedicated to innovation that takes place in Rome every year. This year it will start on September 15th and will end on September 21st (also the day of the partial solar eclipse).

This is an incredible opportunity for me and I would like to thank the founder, Michele Franzese and his team for being so welcoming, I am sure we will do great things together.

📷 Rome Future Week

2) Also, the Venice Film Festival ended right before the lunar eclipse of September 7th: I was there this year with a collaborator/friend and the atmosphere was hectic. I got to see very innovative work at the Venice Immersive Island and the vibe on the Lido felt magical: it really gave me a feeling of positivity for the future.

Congratulations to all the winners and to all the people who made this edition special and inclusive, starting from La Biennale di Venezia.

Love,

Elena