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My childhood friend Marco was born and raised like me, in the Italian maritime city of Monfalcone. Fifty miles away from Venice, at the very North tip of the Mediterranean, he works in the city shipyard. Marco is a descendant of a long history of artisans whose lineage can be traced back to Venetian shipbuilders in the Middle Ages. Unlike his ancestors, much of Marco's work relies on his manual skills, augmented by today's digital aids. Paraphrasing an old Industry 4.0 joke, I once told Marco how the super-automated shipyard of the future "…will only need two employees: a guard dog, and you, hired to feed the dog."