by sen-no-sen » 15/09/17, 17:22
Ignorance and mediocrity were in the past the result of individuals' ignorance of the mechanisms of the world, which was quite understandable and highly forgivable.
The current historical peculiarity lies in the fact that this ignorance is now relayed thanks to a technological tool resulting from human ingenuity and advanced scientific knowledge.
It is this curious alliance which renders the present period so dangerous.
Indeed irrationalism (ideological, religious) and operational rationality (techno-scientific) can give birth to the greatest horrors of history *.
Regarding the development of the net and social networks, even if we can actually rejoice in the dissemination of good ideas, it remains the case that social relations have the desire or not been particularly affected.
It becomes more and more difficult to start a conversation on the train, for example, most people prefer to talk to their smartphones via a virtual social bubble ...
I am not sure of the real gain of the internet.
* The ease of being able to now alter a bacterium, or a virus through biotechnology remains the 1 number threat on the scale of likely danger that can cause the end of humanity.
Except the different forms of millenarianism, Judaica, Christian, Muslim, to see neo-Nazi do not fund good household for example with the development of the genetic scissors CRISPR-cas9.
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"Engineering is sometimes about knowing when to stop" Charles De Gaulle.
