More than forty years away from Apocalyptic and integrated, the question remains the same: in front of advancing to the future, and that does not resemble what we had imagined, we must open the champagne or tear your hair? Share the dark vision of the American poet Robert Bly's argument that, thanks to the Internet, "the brain's neocortex is autodivorando" (like saying that young people are, literally drinking the brain)? O together with the exultation Canadian essayist Don Tapscott, who in his book Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World , just released in the United States, paints a very positive picture of the boys today? Bring the two points of view, a review volume output in the latest edition of the 'Economist', describing how Tapscott's optimism is based on a study of costs four and a half million dollars in twelve countries and brought about eight thousand people born between 1978 and 1994. So, up the cups: thanks to SMS, to Facebook and video games, the Net Generation is "the most intelligent that ever appeared on earth," a statement, said the Canadian scholar, based on the latest research in neuroscience. Only two factors hamper the enthusiasm of Tapscott: the educational system, which many countries do not keep pace with these changes prodigious, and the absolute disregard for the privacy of young people between the ages of fifteen and thirty years. In fact, glosses' the Economist, more and more young jobseekers who "are rejected by potential employers become skilled at detecting on Facebook and MySpace clues to the nature and behavior of prospective employees." A truly inexplicable naivete, in a generation so brilliant.
just fought on our relationship to the world that will be queries the English philosopher Daniel Innerarity (author inter alia of two essays was published by Meltemi, society and invisible The new public space) in an interview exit to the "Nouvel Observateur" under the title The future is not must be the dustbin of this . According Innerarity "democratic societies have a good relationship with the future, because the political system and culture in general are geared toward the immediate present. In the face of our collective future attitude of precaution and improvisation ... as compared to a reality that can lead to problems. " This attitude, says the philosopher, it ends up have the traits of a true "time-colonialism": "We act as if godessimo a kind of impunity with respect to the future which we are the squatters, the illegal occupants." Convinced that "the interdependence of generations requires a new model of social contract," Innerarity becomes champion of "a skeptical optimist" and a "democratic hope": "policy - he says - must learn to manage post-heroic disappointment, considering it an open space of possibility. "
(from the "manifesto", 15 November 2008) Signing
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