This document outlines the schedule and topics for a series of seminars on digital humanities and innovation held in Pisa, Italy from February to April 2017. The schedule lists dates and times for sessions on topics such as the future, innovation, happiness, knowledge, and human questions. Accompanying notes provide more context, discussing concepts like exponential growth, patterns of evolution in technologies, and the relationship between innovation and adoption by users. The document emphasizes that innovation requires both imagination in creation and enabling technologies, as well as mechanisms for selection of which ideas survive. It frames digital humanities as part of the innovation process by enabling a shared understanding between technology and humanity.

1. Digital Humanities | Pisa febbraio-aprile 2017 | Luca De Biase
3. Innovation How to be humans
in the digital age
http://blog.debiase.com

2. 8:30 - 10:00 10:15 - 11:45 12:00 - 13:30 14:15 - 15:45 16:00 - 17:30 17:45 - 19:15
24 febbraio x x x
2 marzo x x x
3 marzo x x
23 marzo x x x
24 marzo x x
6 aprile x x x
7 aprile x x

3. DIGITAL soluzioni power law moore’s law shannon fogg & co.
infosfera
futuro
innovazione
felicità
piattaforma
conoscenza
diritti
HUMAN domande discernimento narrazione responsablità ricerca

4. DIGITAL soluzioni power law moore’s law shannon fogg & co.
infosfera 24 febbraio
futuro 2 marzo
innovazione 3 marzo
felicità 23 marzo
piattaforma 24 marzo
conoscenza 6 aprile
diritti 7 aprile
HUMAN domande discernimento narrazione responsablità ricerca

5. DIGITAL soluzioni power law moore’s law shannon fogg & co.
infosfera digitalizzazione polarizzazione esponenziale algoritmo nicchia
futuro shift pattern senso evoluzione arte & scienza
innovazione immaginazione abilitazione selezione sperimentazione adozione
felicità ecologia fini & mezzi ambiente relazioni cultura
piattaforma interfaccia codice filtro motivazione incentivo
conoscenza valore verità metodo contesto design
diritti privacy accesso interoperabilità neutralità sicurezza
HUMAN domande discernimento narrazione responsablità ricerca

6. paper

7. Che cosa sappiamo
Perché è importante
Che cosa possiamo fare

8. sync

14. https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/
9780262018470_Open_Access_Edition.pdf

15. Digital Humanities | Pisa febbraio-aprile 2017 | Luca De Biase
Innovation
“People don’t know what they
want until you show it to them”.
Steve Jobs

16. A robot suitcase which
follows you is made by the
Israeli startup NUA Robotics.
It is full of sensors, computer
vision and robotics

17. Innovation is not a set of new things

18. Innovation changes a story…
or even history

19. Patterns of evolution
❖ Imagination (process of creation)
❖ Connection (enabling environment)
❖ Selection (choice of what survives and thrives)

20. Patterns of evolution
❖ imagination
❖ enabling technologies
❖ selecting mechanisms (market, research…)

21. selection by market forces
❖ finance
❖ sales
❖ talents

22. selection by research
❖ we can select by doing
research: that’s about what’s
true and false; what’s
documented and what’s not…
❖ verification handbook
❖ http://
verificationhandbook.com

23. selection by technology
❖ it works
❖ it is too old
❖ it is too new

24. Is it in sync with my time?

25. Patterns of evolution
❖ Moore’s law
❖ Metcalfe’s law
❖ Power law

26. Patterns of evolution
❖ Moore’s law
❖ Metcalfe’s law
❖ Power law
❖ Computing
❖ Networking
❖ Big Data

27. Exponential
adoption rate

35. Geoffrey Moore, Crossing the Chasm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

36. Logistic curve
absolute numbers

38. network effect
cumulative
resources limits
in a world
imagination
enablingtechnologies
in a context of meaning
or in a given technology

39. Exponential (with a twist)

40. Exponentiality is not a given
On Singularities and
Black Holes in
Combination-Driven
Models of Technological
Innovation Networks.
by Ricard Solé, Daniel R.
Amor, Sergi Valverde.
Plos.

41. So: either you change context
and start a new rise…

43. … or you find a niche
in which to thrive

44. But what is this: finding a niche in
which to thrive?

45. Innovation is not a set of new things

46. Innovation changes a story…
or even history

47. Patterns of evolution
❖ Imagination (process of creation)
❖ Connection (enabling environment)
❖ Selection (choice of what survives and thrives)

48. Innovation
Five Dangerous Lessons
to Learn From Steve Jobs
1. Customers don’t know what they want
2. Maintain obsessive secrecy
3. Project a reality-distortion field
4. Micromanage every detail
5. Beat people up
http://www.forbes.com/sites/
chunkamui/2011/10/17/five-dangerous-
lessons-to-learn-from-steve-jobs/print/

49. Innovation happens
when the creation generated by new vision
is adopted

50. innovation is…
❖ …not a new thing…
❖ … it is a new thing that is adopted thus changes a story,
or history
❖ adopted means that people make that thing become part
of their lives
❖ There is some common narrative, a shared vision, an
understanding of the technology, a meaning and a use
value that is understood. And it just works

51. Innovation is where technology
and humanity meet

52. convergence
❖ Digital humanities are part of the innovation process…
❖ … because a common understanding needs a technical
narrative and a meaningful technology

53. convergence
❖ program
❖ project
❖ progress
❖ prospect
❖ prosperity

54. Innovation is a revelation

55. Readings
❖ Exponential organizations http://www.slideshare.net/vangeest/
exponential-organizations-h
❖ THE BARABÁSI-ALBERT MODEL http://barabasilab.neu.edu/
networksciencebook/download/network_science_december_ch5_2013.pdf
❖ BarabàsiLab: http://www.barabasilab.com and read some chapters of Link
http://www.barabasilab.com/LinkedBook/index.html
❖ Innovation Killers. How Financial Tools Destroy your Capacity to do New
Things, by Clayton Christensen, Stephen Kaufman and Willy Shih, 2008,
Harvard Business Review