“Forging the future” has a stronger meaning than building or making the future. As quoted by Oxford Dictionary “to forge” is

“make or shape (a metal object) by heating it in a fire or furnace and hammering it“.

Forging the future is a physical action, is shaping our world with our own energy, creating every little piece by ourself without using already built elements.

More than preview versions, this is a “personal” blog, about what I think, I believe, I do … I Forge.

Once upon a time

RiffRaff is my very first blog. The name was quite a random choice. I have been inspired from Riff Raff, the character in Richard O’Brian’s Rocky Horror Picture Shows, and from Ken Loach’s homonymous movie. During the first years posts were about marketing and communication. Growing the web 2.0 I moved attention to this topic, some times criticizing paradigms such as the definition itself of Web 2.0.

Writing and thinking about the Social Web I guessed the post-digital idea: we can’t distinguish between digital and analogical contents. It exists Information and different media that can drive it. From the post-digital communication I shifted to the post digital-culture: how do social media and post-digital communication impact on the culture?

So, in 2009 CulturaPostDigitale was born. Closed to the last pots on RiffRaff, but far away from the very first writings, this Blog was more focused on observig the use of social media made by people. I didn’t matter about technology itself, but I cared much more about the lifestyle impact. This blog was much more personal, as shown in the headline. In 2009 I bought the domain “simonefavaro.it” and I moved it on a self-hosted wordpress platform. In a sad day in August 2010 the DB crashed down and I lost a part (luckily not so large) of posts.

From 2008 to 2010, due to personal happening too, I experimented that the future depends only on our decisions and actions. From my side, the recent decision to “forge” my new future changing work and country…