Slow Food President Carlo Petrini, who admits he still writes with a pen and paper and is yet to upgrade to a typewriter, explained that he is convinced on the collaboration with Google as a tool to help farmers make their work known on a global level. In the meeting with Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt, it was insisted that the online material belongs neither to Google nor to Slow Food, but remains property of the farmers and producers. “Eric Schmidt and I risk making a huge error,” said Petrini: “To believe that the virtual network is more important than the physical network of Terra Madre. The physical network has hearts, souls, feelings; it has strength and power. The virtual network has communication power, but it doesn’t have the ability to trigger sentiment. At the Opening Ceremony two nights ago, I saw people crying from the emotion. I’ve never seen anyone weep for Google.”
Posted on: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 08:26:20 +0000
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