The Tech Issue
ARCHIVIO opens its third editorial cycle: four thematic issues, each curated by a Guest Editor with deep expertise, offering access to worlds where past, present, and future converge.
The third issue, ARCHIVIO N°11, focuses on technology and is curated by Massimo Banzi, co-founder of Arduino, together with Cecilia Botta, technology historian and Head of Memories at Promemoria Group, the magazine’s publisher. Daniela Hamaui oversees editorial direction, while Alessandro Gori shapes the art direction.
The cover, designed by artist Ailadi, pays tribute to the early aesthetics of the digital age. Created using PETSCII, the character set of Commodore 8-bit computers, it evokes the visual language of technology in its formative years.
ARCHIVIO N°11 maps the international landscape of technology archives, tracing the roots of the digital revolution and exploring the places where our technological past is preserved, along with the collectors and institutions that recognized its cultural value.
The issue is structured in three sections — Stories, Institutions, Collectors & Collectives — and includes a special poster: an (in)complete mapping of Italy’s technology archives, researched by Promemoria Group and visually interpreted by Accurat.
Massimo Banzi,“Often the most important innovations are the ones people talk about the least. The 6502 powered machines that defined a generation: these computers processed dreams, turning teenagers into programmers and hobbyists into entrepreneurs.”
Guest Editor
Glimpse of the Month
Marco Boglione: The Silicon Valley Pirate’s Code
By Cecilia Botta
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When you cross the threshold of Marco Boglione’s home, your eye immediately falls on an Einstein quote imprinted on the wall: “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” It is precisely imagination that has driven Boglione, transforming him into the entrepreneur we would all define as “visionary.” Everyone, except him.
Marco Boglione, in fact, rejects this label. He wants to be considered first and foremost a dreamer, and only then an entrepreneur (without adjectives), a mission to which he has dedicated his entire life. Yet, the facts seem to confirm the external perception: he understood the Internet before we became dependent on it, he grasped the marketplace model before Amazon, and he understood the value of sports sponsorships before they became a necessary practice.
