An Analog Brain In A Digital Age | With Marco Ciappelli

In this episode from RSA Conference 2026, Marco Ciappelli sits down with Ben Halpert, founder of the non-profit organization Savvy Cyber Kids, to discuss the critical intersection of child development and technology.

Since its founding in 2007, Savvy Cyber Kids has been on a mission to provide parents and educators with the tools needed to guide children through the digital world. Ben explains why introducing technology too early can be detrimental to a child’s emotional preparedness and brain development, and why adult-led guidance is essential even when kids seem like "tech experts".

In this conversation, we ex...

Marco Ciappelli sits down with cybersecurity evangelist and thought leader Theresa Lanowitz at the end of day one on the expo floor for a conversation that cuts through the noise — from shadow AI and leadership accountability, to brand identity, to why most companies here can't articulate a message above the fray. Plus: a Peloton story that accidentally became the best explanation of brand loyalty you'll hear all week. 

Chapters:
- Judge Sentences CEO to 8 Hours on the RSAC Floor 
- End of Day One: Setting the Scene 
- Who Is Theresa Lanowitz 
- The Bi...

New Book: Climate Capital — Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future | An Interview with Tom Chi | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli

What if the economy isn't broken — just badly designed? Tom Chi, Google X founding member, inventor of 77 patents, and venture capitalist at At One Ventures, joined me on An Analog Brain In A Digital Age to discuss his new book Climate Capital: Investing in the Tools for a Regenerative Future. From the streets of Florence to the strip malls of Silicon Valley, from the mechanics of attention capture to the phys...

There is a question that sounds almost embarrassingly simple. After a vulnerability is discovered in a piece of widely used software — something like Log4Shell, which shook the security world and left hundreds of thousands of organizations exposed overnight — the question organizations scrambled to answer was this: where is this code, and what does it touch?

Most couldn't answer it. Not the Fortune 500 companies. Not the government agencies. Not the critical infrastructure operators. Not the hospitals or the banks or the utilities. They had built and bought mountains of software over years and decades, and when the mome...

New Book: Lost in Time — Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge | An Interview with Jack R. Bialik | An Analog Brain In A Digital Age With Marco Ciappelli

There's a particular arrogance embedded in how we talk about progress. We speak about innovation as if it moves in one direction only — forward, upward, smarter, faster. But what if the line isn't straight? What if it loops, doubles back, and occasionally vanishes entirely?

That's the uncomfortable question at the center of my conversation with Jack R. Bialik. His book Lost in Time: Our Forgotten and Vanishing Knowledge doesn't read...

Agade: The AI-Powered Wearable Robots That Protect Workers, Not Replace Them 

AI Meets Human Craftsmanship

There's something poetic about a technology born to help people with muscular dystrophy finding its second life on factory floors and logistics warehouses. That's the story of Agade, an Italian deeptech startup that began as a research project at Politecnico di Milano and evolved into something far more ambitious: a mission to preserve human craftsmanship in an age of automation.

I sat down with Lorenzo Aquilante, CEO and co-founder of Agade, to talk about their journey from healthcare i...

None of Your Goddamn Business

John Morgan Salomon said something during our conversation that I haven't stopped thinking about. We were discussing encryption, privacy laws, the usual terrain — and he cut through all of it with five words: "It's none of your goddamn business."

Not elegant. Not diplomatic. But exactly right.

John has spent 30 years in information security. He's Swiss, lives in Spain, advises governments and startups, and uses his real name on social media despite spending his career thinking about privacy. When someone like that tells you he's worried, you should probably pa...

Wine Barrels, Duomo Marble, and Florence: Paoletti Custom Guitars at NAMM 2026

I've been away from Florence for 25 years. I didn't know there was a guitar company like this back home.

At NAMM 2026, I found Filippo Martini from Paoletti Custom Guitars—a boutique manufacturer based in the heart of Tuscany, building instruments that are equal parts guitar and artwork.

Paoletti does something no one else does: they build guitars from chestnut wood sourced from Italian wine barrels. The material offers a wide harmonic spectrum, but it's difficult to work with. You need to know ho...

60 Years Forward: Yamaha at NAMM 2026
Yamaha at NAMM 2026: Chris Buck Revstar, Pacifica SC & 60 Years of Guitar Innovation

Some brands chase nostalgia. Yamaha builds forward.

At NAMM 2026, I spoke with Andy Winston to talk about 60 years of Yamaha guitar design—and why this company keeps delivering instruments that punch way above their price point.

The conversation started with the Chris Buck Signature Revstar. Buck is the guitarist for Cardinal Black, and he's earned his own model. The specs tell the story: overwound P90 pickups for a hotter sound, wraparound tailpiece with adjustable saddles, st...

At the Guitar Center Foundation, music is treated as a shared resource rather than a luxury. During this conversation at the NAMM Show 2026, Michelle Wolff, representing the Foundation, explains how access to real instruments can change the trajectory of a student, a patient, or a veteran simply by making music possible in the first place.

The Foundation’s work centers on donating thousands of instruments to schools, hospitals, and veteran centers, with a focus on communities where funding for music programs is often the first thing cut. Through a structured grant process, organizations apply for instruments quarterly, with...

The Last Touch: Why AI Will Never Be an Artist

I had one of those conversations... the kind where you're nodding along, then suddenly stop because someone just articulated something you've been feeling but couldn't quite name.

Andrea Isoni is a Chief AI Officer. He builds and delivers AI solutions for a living. And yet, sitting across from him (virtually, but still), I heard something I rarely hear from people deep in the AI industry: a clear, unromantic take on what this technology actually is — and what it isn't.

His argument is elegant in...

131 years. Still handcrafted in Nashville. Still changing music.

At NAMM 2026, Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli sat down with Jeff Stempka, Global Brand & Marketing at Gibson & Gibson Custom, to talk about what makes this brand untouchable—the craftsmanship, the artist connection, and why people will stretch their budget just to hold one.

From the Les Paul Studio Double Trouble to the ES-335 Fifties and Sixties refresh, Gibson is honoring its legacy while pushing forward.

Jeff said it best: "These are tools that enable incredible musicians to take the instruments and do something we never in...

Vintage Dreams, Modern Hands: A Conversation with PRS Guitars at NAMM 2026

They were literally closing down the show floor when I grabbed Alex Chadwick from PRS Guitars for a conversation I wasn't willing to miss.

We'd been talking off-mic about something that kept nagging at me—this tension between technology and creativity that runs through everything in the music world right now. So I hit record, security guards circling, and asked him straight: Is technology helping musicians become better artists, or do you still need to learn the hard way?

His answer was re...

CES 2026 Just Showed Us the Future. It's More Practical Than You Think.

CES has always been part crystal ball, part carnival. But something shifted this year.

I caught up with Brian Comiskey—Senior Director of Innovation and Trends at CTA and a futurist by trade—days after 148,000 people walked the Las Vegas floor. What he described wasn't the usual parade of flashy prototypes destined for tech graveyards. This was different. This was technology getting serious about actually being useful.

Three mega trends defined the show: intelligent transformation, longevity, and engineering tomorrow. Fancy terms, but...

Jensen Huang Just Won IEEE's Highest Honor. The Reason Tells Us Everything About Where Tech Is Headed.

IEEE announced Jensen Huang as its 2026 Medal of Honor recipient at CES this week. The NVIDIA founder joins a lineage stretching back to 1917—over a century of recognizing people who didn't just advance technology, but advanced humanity through technology.

That distinction matters more than ever.

I spoke with Mary Ellen Randall, IEEE's 2026 President and CEO, from the floor of CES Las Vegas. The timing felt significant. Here we are, surrounded by the latest gadgets and AI de...

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Nothing Has Changed in Cybersecurity Since War Games — And That's Why We're in Trouble

"Nothing has changed."

That's not what you expect to hear from someone with four decades in cybersecurity. The industry thrives on selling the next revolution, the newest threat, the latest solution. But Dr. Steve Mancini—cybersecurity professor, Homeland Security veteran, and Italy's Honorary Consul in Pittsburgh—wasn't buying any of it. And honestly? Neither was I.

He took me back to his...

Author Kate O'Neill's Book "What Matters Next": AI, Meaning, and Why We Can't Delegate Creativity | Redefining Society and Technology with Marco Ciappelli

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When Kate O'Neill tells me that AI's most statistically probable outcome is actually its least meaningful one, I realize we're talking about something information theory has known for decades - but nobody's applying to the way we're using ChatGPT.

She's a linguist who became a tech pioneer, one of Netflix's first hundred employees, someone who saw t...

AI in Healthcare: Who Benefits, Who Pays, and Who's at Risk in Our Hybrid Analog Digital Society

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I had one of those conversations recently that reminded me why we do what we do at ITSPmagazine. Not the kind of polite, surface-level exchange you get at mo...

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Everyone Is Protecting My Password, But Who Is Protecting My Toilet Paper? - Interview with Amberley Brady | AISA CyberCon Melbourne 2025 Coverage | On Location with Sean Martin and Marco Ciappelli

AISA CyberCon Melbourne | October 15-17, 2025

Empty shelves trigger something primal in us now. We've lived through the panic, the uncertainty, the realization that our food supply isn't as secure as we thought. Amberley Brady hasn't forgotten that feeling, and she's turned it into action.

Speaking with her from Florence to Sydney ahead of AISA CyberCon in Melbourne, I discovered someone who came to cybersecurity...

Beyond Blame: Navigating the Digital World with Our Kids

AISA CyberCon Melbourne | October 15-17, 2025

There's something fundamentally broken in how we approach online safety for young people. We're quick to point fingers—at tech companies, at schools, at kids themselves—but Jacqueline Jayne (JJ) wants to change that conversation entirely.

Speaking with her from Florence while she prepared for her session at AISA CyberCon Melbourne this week, it became clear that JJ understands what many in the cybersecurity world miss: this isn't a technical problem that needs a technical solution. It's a human prob...

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______Title: AI Creativity Expert Reveals Why Machines Need More Freedom - Creative Machines: AI, Art & Us Book Interview | A Conversation with  Author Maya Ackerman | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli

______Guest: Maya Ackerman, PhD.
Generative AI Pioneer | Author | Keynote Speaker
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mackerma/
Website: http://www.maya-ackerman.com
 

_____Short Introduction: Dr. Maya Ackerman, AI researcher and author of "Creative Machines: AI, Art, and Us," challenges our assumptions about artificial intelligence and creativity. She argue...

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______Title: Tech Entrepreneur and Author's AI Prediction - The Last Book Written by a Human Interview  | A Conversation with Jeff Burningham | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli

______Guest: Eli Lopian
Founder of Typemock Ltd | Author of AIcracy: Beyond Democracy | AI & Governance Thought Leader
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elilopian/
Book: https://aicracy.ai

Host: Marco Ciappelli
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______Title: Tech Entrepreneur and Author's AI Prediction - The Last Book Written by a Human Interview  | A Conversation with Jeff Burningham | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli

______Guest: Jeff Burningham 
Tech Entrepreneur. Investor. National Best Selling Author. Explorer of Human Potential. 
My book #TheLastBookWrittenByAHuman is available now.

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-burningham-15a01a7b/
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A Musing On Society & Technology Newsletter Written By Marco Ciappelli | Read by...

I had one of those conversations that reminded me why I'm so passionate about exploring the intersection of technology and society. Speaking with Mark Smith, a board member at IBC and co-lead of their accelerator program, I found myself transported back to my roots in communication and media studies, but with eyes wide open to what's coming next.

Mark has spent over 30 years in media technology, including 23 years building Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. When someone with that depth of experience gets excited about what's happening now, you pay attention. And what's happening at IBC 2025 in Amsterdam...

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______Title: Why Electric Vehicles Need an Apollo Program: The Reneweable Energy Infrastructure Reality We're Ignoring | A Conversation with Mats Larsson | Redefining Society And Technology Podcast With Marco Ciappelli

______Guest: Mats Larsson 
New book: "How Building the Future Really Works." Business developer, project manager and change leader – Speaker. I'm happy to connect!

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matslarsson-author/

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______Guest: Mats Larsson 
New book: "How Building the Future Really Works." Business developer, project manager and change leader – Speaker. I'm happy to connect!

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matslarsson-author/

Host: Marco Ciappelli
Co-Founder & CMO @ITSPmagazine | Master Degree in Political Science - Sociology of Communication l Branding & Marketing Advisor | Journalist | Writer...

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A Musing On Society & Technology Newsletter Written By Marco Ciappelli | Read by TAPE3

August 18, 2025

The Narrative Attack Paradox: When Cybersecurity Lost the Ability to Detect Its Own Deception and the Humanity We Risk When Truth Becomes Optional
R...

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August 9, 2025

The Agentic AI Myth in Cybersecurity and the Humanity We Risk When We Stop Deciding for Ourselves
Reflections from Black Hat USA 2025 on the...

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Title: Creative Storytelling in the Age of AI: When Machines Learn to Dream and the Last Stand of Human Creativity

Guest: Maury Rogow
CEO, Rip Media Group | I grow businesses with Ai + video storytelling. Honored to have 70k+ professionals & 800+ brands grow by 2.5Billion Published: Inc, Entrepreneur, Forbes

On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauryrogow/

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Co-Founder & CMO @ITSPmagazine | Master Degree in Political Science - Sociology of Communication l Branding & Marketing Consultant | Journalist | Writer | Podcasts: Technology, Cybersecurity, Soc...

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Title: How to hack Global Activism with Tech, Music, and Purpose: A Conversation with Michael Sheldrick, Co-Founder of Global Citizen and Author of “From Ideas to Impact”

Guest: Michael Sheldrick
Co-Founder, Global Citizen | Author of “From Ideas to Impact” (Wiley 2024) | Professor, Columbia University | Speaker, Board Member and Forbes.com Contributor

WebSite: https://michaelsheldrick.com
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-sheldrick-30364051/
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The Hybrid Species — When Technology Becomes Human, and Humans Become Technology
A Musing On Society & Technology Newsletter Written By Marco Ciappelli | Read by TAPE3
July 19, 2025

We once built tools to serve us. Now we build them to complete us. What...

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Title: The Human Side of Technology with Abadesi Osunsade — From Diversity to AI and Back Again

Guest: Abadesi Osunsade
Founder @ Hustle Crew 

WebSite: https://www.abadesi.com
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/abadesi/

Host: Marco Ciappelli
Co-Founder & CMO @ITSPmagazine | Master Degree in Political Science - Sociology of Communication l Branding & Marketing Consultant | Journalist | Writer | Podcasts: Technology, Cybersecurity, Society, and Storytelling.
WebSite: https://marcociappelli.com
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Robbie, From Fiction to Familiar — Robots, AI, and the Illusion of Consciousness 
June 29, 2025

A new transmission from Musing On Society and Technology Newsletter, by Marco Ciappelli

I recently revisited one of my oldest companions. Not a person, n...

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Title: Bridging Worlds: How Technology Connects — or Divides — Our Communities 

Guest: Lawrence Eta 
Global Digital AI Thought Leader | #1 International Best Selling Author | Keynote Speaker | TEDx Speaker | Multi-Sector Executive | Community & Smart Cities Advocate | Pioneering AI for Societal Advancement
WebSite: https://lawrenceeta.com 
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrence-eta-9b11139/ 

Host: Marco Ciappelli 
Co-Founder & CMO @ITSPmagazine | Master Degree in Political Science - Sociology of Communication l Branding & Marketing Consultant | Journalist | Writer | Podcasts: Technology, Cybersecurity, Society, and Storytelling.
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