Università Telematica Leonardo Da Vinci

The Research Laboratory on Digital Transition and Sustainability of New Technologies is established within the Department of Human, Legal and Economic Sciences of the "Leonardo da Vinci" Telematic University, located in Palazzetto dei Veneziani, Chieti. The Laboratory is named after Hugo Gernsback, ante-litteram pioneer of digital transformation, founder of Modern Electrics, the world's first electronics magazine (1908). The Laboratory was founded as a multi- and interdisciplinary study, analysis and scientific research center on pressing current issues such as the regulation, direction, coordination and planning of digital transition processes at a national, European and global level. In light of the emerging regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI Act), which intends to act as the first binding regulation aimed at preventing the risks deriving from this new generation of technologies for the fundamental rights and values of the EU, without however blocking its technological development and the pursuit of the expected benefits, several points for reflection are offered to our attention: protection, security and valorisation of personal (and non-personal) data; impact of the digital transition on environmental, social, educational, linguistic and governance factors; relationship between technological development and the pursuit of sustainable success as well as the full and effective development of the human person and his fundamental rights. Furthermore, all of this with a constant look at the interference between the various emerging technologies, all based on "digitalization" (AI, but also Distributed Registries, Internet of Things, Augmented Reality, Multiverse, Quantum Computing) and the multiplier effect that this entails in all sectors subject to regulation.