Two or three elderly
The words of two old men paid attention to me in a very short time and I unintentionally attached them to my memory. One of them has been broadcast by someone on Facebook and I, when I've seen it, have also done the same thing. He has received five datxabi, but no one has rejected it. Name given to the video: “Arthur C. Clarke described the Internet in 1974.” Clark dresses and takes the tie, and again, in the second decade of the 21st century, fashion goggles. The journalist asks the scientist and science fiction writer about the nature of the 21st century. To do this, your child has been taken: “My son Jonathan will be as old as I am in 2001.” Arthur C. Clark takes Jonathan as an example to talk about the relationship with computers or machines in general, 27 years later.
Of course, he can describe the way of life in which we find ourselves. It doesn't say how, what different, human relationships will understand and live. In his words there are no shadows caused by the technology he explains, there is not much trace of pessimism (that leaves him for novels). We may think that technophile optimism belongs to the time, or that it applies to itself the first of the three laws that it has invented, the Clarke laws: “When an eminent but old scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certain to be right. When he says something is impossible, he is very likely to be wrong.” This definition of “but old” has always been strange to me in this law. Still (by age or not) I am not able to understand the nuances that this leads to the assertion.
Arthur C. It's eight years younger than Clarke, but it doesn't speak to us since 1974, but it's since today, so it's making us much older the new society that social networks on the Internet have brought, much older and perhaps more pessimistic, as someone might deduct from it. Social networks – he says – are a trap; they do not have a real dialogue with how different society is, they do not train in social skills, there is no real confrontation – they can already eliminate those who think otherwise – social networks sow themselves under the guise of courtesy. In any case, the pessimism of Zygmunt Bauman did not attribute it to old age, to the fear that the old have of the new. Maybe because we're all suspicious of social media, even of those of us who live immersed in social media, as if yesterday's thinkers had a tool in their hands for tomorrow, and as if that had the most positive answers.
We live in a state of indifference, using means that are not ours (there are children of Jonathan), old and early. The instruments have not yet fully adapted us. This is not apocalyptic; we were also changed by the printing press or by the ferreria, although it was not denounced by the technophobes. The evidence that we live unevenly is that most social media circulates without regulated behaviors, without being able to guess what the courtesy is. How to manage – these are true cases – that Aunt Monja has asked for “friendship” in a social network; how a real-life friend doesn’t want to know virtually about you, from a closet of close people who can’t guess how to properly hide the gay face of double life.
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