Director of the Research Institute on Quality of Life. Future directions for the relational planet New technologies, and particularly communicational technologies, are offering us new powerful tools to improve our ways of living. Some European authors have been recently re-analyzing and underlining how some of such tools may allow us to establish relationships in new ways . In fact, new ways of relating and communicating with others are already happening. Internet can be considered a relational machine, a powerful tool to improve our relationships and direct them to common projects.
Children are very often surprisingly creative and adaptive.
In fact, networking is a human activity very old in history. But its importance has been underlined only very recently, because communication technologies have opened powerful new possibilities of international networking, careless of physical distances. Networking has advantages and disadvantages in front of old ways of organization. The emphasis is much less in the structure, and much more in the flexibility, in communication among people, in adapting quickly to new opportunities. Social and technological changes have raised new question marks about the direction of the changes we really want in our societies .