Young people : newspapers and TV news As reported by the article, in the last years more and more young people neither read newspapers anymore nor watch TV news. Not having statistical facts about those 2 phenomena, I can only draw a conclusion from my own experience and the people around me. I agree with the first assumption since I think that the growth in affordability of smartphones and Internet devices has contributed to the abandonment of newspapers. In fact, in a fast-paced world, we can have the very last news at our fingerprints whenever we want anytime during the day and night while newspapers usually report news of the day before. That is also why mainly all newspapers agencies have been forced to switch to digital, usually offering both ''classic'' newspapers and digital ones. At the same time, I don't completely agree with the fact that young people are not watching TV news anymore. As a general tendency regarding the news, I believe we might be a bit lazier than before since we are used to have everything real-time without doing any effort such as serious research(s) or taking the time to read a newspaper. Of course, when discussing these topics without any real evidence it's easy to generalize and I am sure there are a lot of young people out there who still read newspapers and enjoy doing that.

Mi primero texto en espanol - En primer lugar, lo siento por los accentos pero mi tastiera no los tienen - En enero decidi' de empezar a estudiar espanol porque es un idioma que me gusta mucho y tambien tengo amigos en Espana. El idioma es bastante similare a el italiano y creo que este es al mismo tiempo una cosa buena y una cosa no tan buena. Es buena porque muchas palabras son las mismas pero tambien esta puede ser la cosa no buena porque puedes hacer un mix - como probablemente estoy haciendo ahora lol He decidido de empezar a escribir porque es una calidad que aun no he empezado a desarollar. Me parece que hablar y escuchar en espanol es bastante facil pero me estoy dando cuenta que escribir es bastante dificil. Entonces, lo voy hacer mas veces. Gracias!

Estoy buscando alguien que quiere hacer un intercambio italiano-espanol Hola a todos! Soy un chico italiano y tengo 23 anos. Ahora estoy aprendiendo espanol y me gustaria mucho hablar con gente espanola asi' que puedo mejorar mi espanol. Por supuesto, seria feliz de ayudarte con tu italiano si estas aprendiendo esto idioma. Ciao!

My experience on italki It's when I was looking for new ways to improve my foreign language skills that I stumbled on italki. I got interested in it and I decided to give it a chance but surprisingly to me I realized I already subscribed on italki in 2016. I completely forgot it. Anyway, my mere goal on italki was to practice my English speaking skills because I thought that my conversational skills were lagging behind compared to other areas of the language such as listening or reading. Therefore, I started taking lessons with native English community tutors, I found it helpful but at the same time I didn't want to spend money on it. Being Italian I decided to become an Italian community tutor so that I uploaded my video talking about myself and other random stuff. To be honest, I didn't really expect any student to book lessons with me and that's what actually happened for the first month since I didn't receive any lesson request. This trend changed in December when one afternoon I got a notification sound on my phone I was not used to hear, I therefore checked it and here it was my first lesson request! ( Thank you Carlos). I was very excited because it was the first time I gave an Italian lesson, I am not a teacher at all! But at the same time, I was happy to talk with foreign people and hopefully help them learning Italian. Since then my activity as a community tutor slowly increased and now I have more than ten students from all around the world who are learning Italian! I am very excited about it because I can talk with people from China, Brazil, Poland and many other countries from my home and share thoughts and conversations with them. I am still taking English lessons as meant to be and I am also planning to start Spanish lessons quite soon but I am very satisfied about how my presence on italki has turned to be.

Train's strike Today there has been a train driver's strike and I had been quite impacted by it since I take the train every day to go to the university. The bizarre thing is that I hadn't heard anything about it until this morning when I woke up. Usually, in these kinds of events, the service is still guaranteed in those hours when people commute to work but my first lesson was at 10,30 in the morning so I didn't get the train on time. Due to this reason, I had to do a crazy trip in order to reach my university. I usually spend 15 minutes by train in order to go there but today it took me 1 hour and a half. But the worst came to the worst when I had to come home in the afternoon, indeed, tons of people were waiting for the first train available after the strike so that everyone was pressed against each other. The head person of the train urged us to get off the train because there were many people on it and it was dangerous to face a trip in a situation like that. A lot of people were complaining all the time during the trip because there were too much of us but honestly I don't understand these kinds of complaints, I find useless to complain about something you can't control such as a situation like that. Anyway, I finally reached home and I'm writing this piece of article right now :D

Could robots replace human jobs? I am reading a book called "Homo Deus" and in the final part of the book the author discuss possible future scenarios given that technology is evolving very fast. ( Could I say "since technology is doing giant strides?"). In fact, nowadays, the majority of the jobs include some activities that are replaceable by machines. In particular, some of them are entirely replaceable by them. I know that just yesterday there was an accident caused by a self-driving car which probably didn't see a woman because of the darkness and ended up killing her but I think that in the future there will be always more self-driving cars. Overall, they will probably result safer than cars driven by humans. Of course, machines are not going to impact solely the transportation environment. Indeed, a couple of years ago, IBM's Watson, an artificial intelligence machine powered by IBM, performed better than doctors at diagnosing cancer. This doesn't mean that in the future we won't see doctors anymore but rather that they will be helped by machines and probably only those doctors who are deeply specialized won't lose their job. Let's think about it for a moment, as written by Harari, becoming a doctor is a huge cost if we consider all the years dedicated to studies at the university. What if everyone might have a personal robot doctor which is always present and never tired of helping us? Again, I am not predicting that doctors will disappear but they will have to be conscious of the help that machines might bring them. We are accustomed saying that machines can only perform those jobs where brawn is required such as in agriculture but in the recent years we are witnessing to the rise of machines also in fields we would have never thought before such as medicine but also in music. In fact, few years ago there was the first concert run by an algorithm and what's more interesting is that the public didn't notice the difference between the music performed by humans and by algorithms. To sum up, my point of view about this topic is not so extreme as the author might seem to be in some points but definitely we have to be conscious of the fact that machines are going to be more and more important in our lives.

A funny but dangerous experience In my childhood, I was continuously pushing to play whatever sport possible every time but this led me to face a very unusual event. In particular, my family and I were visiting my grandparents in a little town not so far from Turin and we decided to spend one day on a lovely hill quite close to where they live. I easily got bored since I wasn't playing with anyone and that's why I pushed my grandfather to play bowls with me since he loved that sport. We luckily found a bowls ground where we were spending the day and therefore we started playing but it wasn't so much after we started that I got bored again since he was too good for me. I suddenly looked up above me and I saw a wire with some flags around it because that was the day of a local festivity and everything was decorated in that way. I don't know exactly the reason, probably because I loved football, I decided to hurl the bowl I had in my hand up around the wire and that's actually what I did but the main problem was that I didn't move from where I was standing so that the bowl fell in front of my head. After few seconds, a huge bruise was present in my head just above my eyes and both my parents and grandparents were quite shocked and worried. Fortunately, after 4 days and a lot of ice the bruise disappeared from my head, making this event a funny one. Since then I have learned to not kick any bowl with my head again.

Will self-driving cars be the future? I recently read an article on The Economist about the current state of autonomous vehicles and what their future might look like and I have found it quite interesting since I am passionate about technology and innovation. More specifically, the article has reported the fact that the biggest car-making companies, in particular in the United States, are pouring tons of money into the self-driving cars technologies and some of them expect to see these cars being used daily within 20/30 years. Of course, cars have brought several advantages to all of us since we have been enabled to move in an easier and efficient way although in the recent months I have come up with the conviction that one of my "dreams" is to live in a city where having a car is not strictly needed since it's quite stressful to spend time in the queue , not even mentioning to look for a parking in the city centre and I guess it's also a big source of pollution. Furthermore, in my personal opinion cars have made us lazier since sometimes we take them also for the shortest trips that we might easily do walking. Anyway, self-driving cars have the potential to disrupt businesses and also completely change the way we travel. In fact, they would bring advantages not only in terms of less pollution since we probably would share the ride with other people but also in terms of safety, indeed, let's just think about how many cars-accidents derive from drunkness or decreased attention due to people talking on their phones. In particular, I have thought about this last point and although I think that self-driving cars certainly have the potential of being safer than humans we wouldn't accept an accident caused by complicated algorithms. What do you think? Would you accept a decreased total number of accidents while still accepting a thin percentage of accidents caused by self-driving cars? Who are you gonna blame then?

Why sport is important to me? Luckily for me, I have always loved sports since I was very young and I remember spending most of my afternoon playing any sport possible with my friends after school. In particular, I rapidly fell in love with football given that I have been playing it since I was 7 years old and I'm still going to approach my Sunday match as usual though probably for my last season. When I was in high school/primary school I also started approaching the gym as more or less every guy of that age with the intention of getting muscular and lurk the girls of my school though I later discovered that luckily it doesn't work like that ( Excuse me, I was so young :D ). Anyway, since then I have maintained the habits of practicing both football and weightlifting into my daily routine and I feel a void when I miss a training or something like that. In particular, lifting weights has become very important not because I want to get muscular but just because keeping exercising makes me feel very good so that I would say it's more about a psychological effect than a physical one. Therefore, I really hope to let's keep exercising and just keep moving forever since I think it's a great habit to mantain.