After 12 years is still the case? I happened to read this article in a search I was doing on apocalyptic and incorporated by reference to the relationship with new technologies.
Just finished reading I read that it was an article in the July 15, 1998 and I was speechless!
In twelve years I seem to have changed very little, and how many "Don Ferrante," Our poor are still in school ...
The enemies of science? Apocalyptic and integrated The manifesto of the "technorealism" The enemies of science? Apocalyptic and integrated into launching a new section dedicated to technology, the New York Times has put its readers the following dilemma: "You are technophiles or technophobes?". As if the advent of genetic engineering and electronics required to a kind of bipolar, single-member constituency of dry: either here or the '. O nostalgic Gutenberg or drugged by the computer. O drug - employees or followers of Ayurvedic medicine. But then a group of American intellectuals, and even of "digerati", as was' autobattezzata the elite of the digital age, breaks the rules and proposes a "third way": the "technorealism. A poster of the new school of thought for some time is "posted" on the Internet (site www.technorealism.org). First signatories David Shenk, Steven Johnson, Andrew Shapiro and other gurus of the Net Generation. "The technorealism - explain - it is proposed to demolish some common, including one that technology can solve all the problems of the market, such as inequality and monopoly, or mirror the myth that the markets will solve all the problems of technology (such as protection of privacy and the guarantee of universal access). " In the eight points of the manifesto reads something like, "technologies are not neutral, but they are full of precise social values, political and economic, in part deliberate and part not" that "the Internet and 'revolutionary but not utopian" and that the state has an important role to play on the electronic frontier: "It 's madness argue that the government has jurisdiction over what 'or deviant citizens who can make fraudulent companies on the net ... The confidentiality issues are too sensitive to be left to market forces. "Again, the technology is not 'knowledge, and will not be' a computer on every desk to save the school from declining. Finally, the highest point 'decisive "Understanding technology should be an essential component of global citizenship." We are on the level of abstract statements, but it 's still a good start for discussion. And since the Internet covers the whole planet, all are invited to participate, without barriers language or nationality '. Yet so far, among the hundreds of accessions come even from Romania and Venezuela, the Italian names will be 'and not four or five, or even an excellent one. Sara 'cause our intellectuals attending more' lounges television cyberspace, or have not had the fortune to travel to that site. Or more 'mundane' cause, in terms of science, remain anchored to the bipolarity. Apocalyptic or integrated. Swaying between the enthusiasm for the new cancer drug and outrage for the "Frankenstein directive". Among the laughter of Dario Fo humans - pork and captivating positivism Piero Angela. In between is' the desert of ideas, a lack of knowledge about a bit 'all, but in a more' serious and inexcusable those who have the task of shaping public opinion and educating the new generations. The prima donnas of the star system cultural - the media are too bogged squabbles in the nihilism of the left and right, on the current 'Leopardi or about the differences between Francisco Franco and Mussolini, to have time to take a look at the changing technological landscape around them. A little 'as Don Ferrante Manzoni that in the age of Kepler, Bacon and Descartes consumed his days on the pages of Aristotle, in debating the "quiddity". There are exceptions, fortunately, Umberto Eco, Gianni Vattimo, the group of Politeia, lawyers and philosophers who drew up the manifesto for a secular bioethics. " It deserves to be noted the book by Giorgio Israel, The garden of nuts (Cuen editions) than against the opposing risks of Enlightenment scientism and mysticism New Age offers a "new rationalism open, critical and constructive", capable of reconciling the different forms of knowledge with humanistic ethics. But the bulk of the intelligentsia is taken away from these issues. Many have converted to computer and phone. But how many have read Jacques Monod, Frannois or Jacob, or the story of the "double helix" by Jim Watson? How many know that talk when they pull the ball in molecular biology or particle physics? Most 'are content to recycle pieces of scientific discourse ornamental purposes only. As Baudrillard for which modern wars would develop into a "space - Euclidean" or that Deleuze narrator of 'speed' infinite 'and' virtual chaos. " And god only knows what he meant.
Riccardo Chiaberge
Page 31 (July 15, 1998) - Corriere della Sera
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