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Foroplanetario A great English philosopher of the nineteenth century Francisco de Goya, known as a painter, once wrote: "The sleep of reason breeds monsters." At the time exploiting communications technologies, we can ask ourselves if our eyes are engendering a new type monsters. Indeed, these new technologies are themselves the result of reflection, of reason. But is it a reason awake? "In the truest sense of the word" wake "that is attentive, vigilant, critical, critical stubbornly? Or a reason sleepy, asleep, at the time to invent, create, imagine, is derailed and create, imagine actually monsters?
late nineteenth century, when the railroad was imposed as a benefit in terms of communication, some spirits do not hesitate to say sorry that this machine was terrifying and tunnels that people would die asphyxiated. They argued that a speed exceeding 50 km / h jump blood from the nose and ears and that passengers would die in the midst of terrible convulsions. Are the doomsayers, the professional pessimists. Always doubt the progress of reason, according to these obscurantist, can not produce anything good. Although they are wrong in substance, we must admit that progress is often good and bad. At the same time.
Internet is a technology that in itself is neither good nor bad. Only the use of it is made lead us to judge. And this is the reason, today more than ever, can not sleep. If a person receives at home, every day, five hundred newspapers around the world and if this were known, probably would say she's crazy. And it would be true. For who but a fool, you can propose to read five hundred newspapers a day? Some forget this evidence when buzzing with satisfaction to announce that from now on thanks to the digital revolution, we may receive five hundred television channels. The happy subscriber to the five hundred channels will inevitably prey to a feverish impatience, that no image can quench. Will lose no time limit in the dizzying maze of a permanent zapping. Consume images, but will not be reported.
is sometimes said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Is false. Images often need an explanatory text. If only to make us reflect on the very meaning of certain images, which the television feeds at its peak. This improvement was noted some years ago, for example, during the last stage of the Tour de France, when the final sprint on the Champs Elysees live witness the dramatic drop in Abdujaparov.
saw this scene as we had seen on a street, a person hit by a car. With the difference that the car had rammed a person only once. On television, we could see and see again thirty times Abdujaparov accidental fall. With thousands of new possibilities of the technique: with zoom, no zoom, dive-in shots, at an angle, on the opposite corner, in traveling, front, profile ... And, endlessly, in slow motion.
With each repetition, we learned more about the circumstances of the fall. But, increasingly, our sensitivity is mitigated a bit more. Gradually, saw them again this fall with the distance of a movie buff that dissects a sequence of an action movie. The repeats were over killing our excitement.
We are told that thanks to new technologies, hereinafter reached the shores of total communication. The term is misleading, lets us believe that all human beings on the planet can now communicate. Unfortunately, not true. Only 3% of the world's population has access to a computer and using the Internet are even less numerous. The vast majority of our fellow humans ignores even the existence of these new technologies. So far there have yet the basic achievements of the old industrial revolution: drinking water, electricity, school, hospital, roads, rail, refrigerator, car, etc. If nothing is done, the current information revolution ignores them the same way.
us more information learned or wise one if we are about men. But with the possibility of further access to all documents we need, increases the risk of dehumanization. And ignorance.
From now on, the key to culture lies not in the experience and knowledge, but in the ability to find information across multiple channels and reservoirs of the Internet. You can ignore the world, not knowing what universe social, economic and political lives, and have all the information possible. Makes communication and to be a form of communion. How can we not lament the end of real communication, direct, person to person?
With obsession, see the nightmare scenario materialize announced for science fiction, each locked in his apartment, cut off from everyone and everything in the terrible loneliness, but connected to the Internet and communicate with the whole planet . The purpose of the material world of experience, the specific contact, carnal ... The dissolution of the bodies.
Gradually, we are trapped by the virtual reality. Despite what is claimed, is as old as the world, as our dreams. And our dreams have led to virtual worlds extraordinary, fascinating, new continents, unknown, where we have experienced exceptional experiences, adventures, love, danger. And sometimes nightmares. Against which we warned Goya. Without this means you have to hold your imagination, creation and invention. Because this is always paid dearly.
is rather a question of ethics. What is the ethics of those like Bill Gates and Microsoft, want to win the battle of new technologies at all costs, to make the most personal? What is the ethics of the raiders and the golden boys who speculate in the stock using the advances in communication technologies to ruin the States or break hundreds of companies in the world? What is the general ethics of the Pentagon, which build on the progress of the images more efficiently schedule its Tomahawk missiles to cause death?
impressed, intimidated by the modern and technically speaking, most people capitulate. Accepted adapt to the new world that tells us as inevitable. And do nothing to oppose. Are passive, inert to accomplices. They seem to have resigned. Waived their rights and duties. In particular, its duty to protest, to revolt, to rebel. As if the farm was gone and the manipulation of spirits have been banished. As if the world is ruled by fools and as if suddenly the media had become a matter of angels.
