"Mr. Coppola is very sad. The only thing he asks is to return his computer, which is essential for him. " Last Thursday, after a robbery in the house of the Argentine film director, his assistant passed the message to local television stations. As a desperate SOS. And it is. In memory of the laptop Coppola had recorded (and saved) fifteen years of work, including material for his next film, "Tetro," begins filming scheduled for February. But now the programs are cleared by Francis Ford Coppola, suspended. Why a digital memory can collect a lifetime, a creative life, or suffering. And "if you lose you feel finished," said the inconsolable that have passed. A reliable memory those years of work, documents, correspondence, notes, fotografie del cuore che una volta al massimo rischiavano di ingiallire sui vecchi album di famiglia. Certo che bastano semplici e veloci operazioni per duplicare le memorie. Basta fare un «backup» dei dati, basta copiarli. Ma poi c'è l'errore umano. «Ho perso anche il backup», «non trovo la chiavetta», «avevo tutto nella stessa valigia». Inutile infierire. Coppola è triste. E i suoi compagni di sventura non sono ottimisti sui tempi di ripresa. «È uno choc, io non ho ancora recuperato del tutto. Nel pc avevo milioni di ore di lavoro, e pezzi della mia vita, tutte le foto di mia figlia dalla nascita alla prima comunione — racconta Roberto Andreoni, compositore —. È una ferita difficile da rimarginare. To me it has happened twice. Before a burglary in the house: and with the laptop is gone the work I was writing, incalculable damage. Then a stolen car, this time in my pc I work for a multimedia exhibition, months of work, I had backed up but was in the same bag. I had avoided for fear of theft as highway and I drank a quick coffee in a bar by taking care of the car window, I have not noticed anything. All lost. I offered two thousand euro to those who returned that diskette. Useless. " Has long been in shock Rodrigo Dias, owner of the historic library Cross in Rome, forty thousand titles in 500 square feet. "It happened two years ago, I was shocked, I walked around like a zombie. I opened the library in October, thieves had come in December: via server and backup, the disk I had left on the desk. There was the inventory, map, cards, sold, there was still everything I need and I never recovered. Including my private correspondence. " "It's a terrible grief, difficult to process - says the sociologist Franco Ferrarotti - especially if as in the case of Coppola's losing a creative work, because it is the loss of the substance of the person that has been expressed in that work. It can cause great pain and frustration, and coincide with periods of relative artistic sterility. Today we are exposed to the ambivalence of these technologies, which has a hand helps us create a memory, but also expose us to grave risk of losing it. " In the long list of "victims" there is a case in which valuable data are returned to the rightful owner. That's what Paola Bernardi Locatelli, graduate in Archaeology from the University of Milan. His thesis on "The human figure in the Etrusco-Corinthian pottery" has dedicated to the gentleman who stole the car pc. 'We have three months to graduation, there was the pc in my thesis. I was desperate, with the computer there were also the USB stick and CD with copies. I printed hundreds of flyers calling for the return of that material. The thief called me and made me have four keys with copies of the thesis. "
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