“Digital Divide”: outline of a concept
A “digital divide” has accompanied the rise of digital technology since the 1990s. Outline of a problematical concept.
Politics
A “digital divide” has accompanied the rise of digital technology since the 1990s. Outline of a problematical concept.
Here comes the “Metaverse”, the occasion for a posthumous intellectual contact with the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler.
Blockchain technology promises the disappearance of “cumbersome” trusted third parties. But we don’t get rid of them at little political cost.
The technological regime produces this “computationalist” doxa which considers the brain as a Center for information processing. Really?
Elon Musk acts like a feudal lord, vassal of the technological system. Will we be resistant enough to live in the “territories” conquered by this tough guy?
A law was promulgated in France at the end of 2018 to respond to the inflation of “fake news”. What can be said today about this controversial subject?
Are we not locked in a static, “hypernormal” world? This is the strange proposition of British journalist Adam Curtis.
The philosopher Miguel Benasayag argues, especially against transhumanism, that “the living” would always escape the artificial realm. Did he convince us?
Late 2017, China unveiled a National artificial intelligence strategy to accelerate an already successful digital politics: imperial!
Isn’t the fight against malicious uses of Artificial Intelligence just another pretext to strengthen the grip of Internet giants?