The Man Who Saw the Future | Meeting With Federico Faggin

Regarding Federico Faggin, Bill Gates said, "Before him, Silicon Valley was just Valley." Internationally recognized as the inventor of the microchip and the touchpad, Faggin is among the most influential Italian scientists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His latest interests focus on the so-called "hard problem of consciousness," the scientific understanding of how human consciousness works.

Marcello Foa's documentary "Federico Faggin. The Man Who Saw the Future" reconstructs Faggin's career, from his early days at Olivetti to his move to the United States, from his legal troubles with Intel to the National Medal for Technology and Innovation awarded to him by President Obama.

Will follow a lecture on the possible and necessary connection between science and spirituality, presenting ideas he has also explored in several publications, recently translated into German. "We think reality is absurd, but we are the ones who are absurd when we try to force it into our preconceived ideas. It is precisely by investigating the 'absurdity' of quantum entanglement, free will, and consciousness—phenomena that physics cannot explain—that we can find the answer."

The documentary will be in Italian with English subtitles. The lecture will be in Italian, with simultaneous translation into German.

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