The new generations "are ready to take up the challenges, starting with the technological ones, of the present and the future, and to be better than us. I have children who are better than me and grandchildren who are better than my children as potential. Then it's up to us to help them develop it. "
Word of Marco Tronchetti Provera, CEO and executive vice president of Pirelli, protagonist of a meeting entitled The man of the future in the world to come, with the mathematician Alfio Quarteroni and the president of the Puglia Region Michele Emiliano, moderated by Giuseppe De Bellis, at the 21st edition of Il libro possibile (festival supported by Pirelli) in Polignano a Mare (Bari).
"In the company we are hiring many young people, supporting them with experienced people - he adds -.
Speaking with ANSA, the CEO of Pirelli also mentions highly topical issues such as the climate emergency and the digital transition: "We begin to improve the existing one, even on a daily basis, thinking about the water we waste or the aqueducts that do not work as they should - he explains -. Then we must continue to use technologies to improve the impact of any of our activities on the environment. This industry is doing a lot, Italy is ahead of other countries, but there is there is a lot to do. The goals are ambitious but there are technologies in Italy to do it ".
Compared to the more immediate challenges for Italy, there is the realization of the objectives of the NRP: "
History says that we have a past in which we did not use well the resources that also came from Europe.
We will be successful if we convey to all Italian citizens that this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
There is not yet this feeling, the project is right, the quality is recognized at the level of Brussels.
Now it is we citizens who must believe in it and help those who govern us to make it happen ".