- I have found different ways of thinking about the digitization of care for dependent people: on the one hand, a story that says technology is able to save humanity and, on the other, a story that understands technology as a mere support in the works of man and nature, understanding that the solution of the problems that affect them is only in the hands of human beings.
In the case of salvage technology, we are already seeing a world in which the physical well-being of dependent people can be followed remotely through digitisation technologies. In this report, technologies bring benefits for technological developments and new fields of work with them, reduction of the costs of people attending to the evolution of automation, new knowledge with the data that this automation will bring and new developments to create different markets...
If we focus on people in situations of dependence, what is the greatest benefit for them in this report? Autonomy? But what is behind the idea of autonomy? I suspect that autonomy is understood as a means of reducing people's needs. If so far physical need has been the main reason to foster relationships with people in situations of dependency, what kind of relationship are we going to establish with them? Are we going to leave them isolated? In solitude? In the triple service, knowledge and market, where is the person in a situation of dependency? Is it an object studied at all times and which has the character of market raw material?
Maybe we should rethink the path that digitalization of care is taking. People need to think better about how we can meet this challenge with the help of technology. The demands of March 8 have been largely associated with care. However, the nature of care is changing, as they see themselves as possibilities for creating new markets. Once again, we have to be vigilant if we want the digitization of care to develop from a feminist point of view.