Digitizing the world

In all spheres of life, there is a before and after the arrival of smartphones with high-speed internet in around 2007–2009, whether in terms of the physiognomy of cities, transport, daily life, family life, education, work, leisure, politics, or culture. Screens have taken precedence over old knowledge and profoundly disrupted the social bond. The feeling of holding the world in your hands symbolically conjures up the absence of real interlocutors around you. Artificial intelligence not only accelerates this process, but it also undermines the very development of thought and raises the question: To what extent do we want to subject our lives to the power of digital systems?