How the pandemic relateed to the spread of Covid-19 is rediscovering the role of science and technology. About it. Alfonso Fuggetta, full professor of Computer Science at the Polytechnic of Milan and CEO and scientific director of Cefriel, wrote in the article entitled Nothing will be more like before.

"In the first place, such emergencies cannot be answered except by relying on science, its discoveries, its analytical and judgmental skills, with all the limits and errors that any human activity inevitably implies and entails. Similarly, definition and management of the paths to return to a "normal" life require that science and technology provide us with tools that can help us control any new outbreaks of infection, and limit new dangers and damage to people and society as a whole.

But there is a third important area to reflect on: the role of science and technology in the process of rethinking and reinventing our future. This pandemic is changing our society profoundly and permanently. Nothing will be like before, from our way of working to fun, travel and economic and industrial development. In this transformation which will in all likelihood be truly epochal, what can science and technology offer us? What role can and should they play in a world that will inevitably live on new dynamics and new social and economic paradigms? "

For more information: https://www.vanityfair.it/lifestyle/hi-tech/2020/04/13/nulla-sara-piu-come-prima