Are we ready for the new technologies?
We are currently living in a time in which traditional ideas about what our role in the world is are constantly being re-evaluated. Phenomena such as posthumanism, transhumanism, genetic modification, artificial intelligence or the digital revolution, which has accelerated rapidly in recent years, are forcing us to redefine the classic nature-culture opposition and other seemingly familiar concepts. What does it mean that we are rational subjects with cognitive capacities? Beings endowed with consciousness? Individuals capable of making moral choices? And finally, creative individuals, creators of literature, art and culture? Although homo sapiens still sets the rules for other species, the Renaissance-Enlightenment anthropological paradigm that placed humans at the centre of reality and made them the measure of all things is no longer the only possible option. This means that we humans must, as it were, ask the question anew about who we are and redefine ourselves in the face of nature, culture and ubiquitous technology. But are we ready to face the reality that is coming? Do our culture, literature, art, norms of behaviour, the languages we communicate with, the way we think and philosophical concepts give us the tools we need to understand it properly and be able to identify the potential opportunities and threats it presents? What is the place of nature and living organisms in the world of new technologies?
