earth as human beings as a species
human and that the earth was at the center
Copernicus arrived in the universe and there
he explained that the earth was no longer at
center of the universe as we had
thought up until now but in the middle there was the
sun, narcissistic wound for being
human but then we are not so central
how we thought we were like we are
we consoled ourselves by saying comfort
we are still a different species
we are not like animals we are not
how we really are plants
different has come darwin and has us
explained that actually we too
we have a common stock with some
monkeys and therefore substantially it is not
a species so different because also
we are animated another revolution
inner
another narcissistic wound like hearing us
again special even compared to
animals
we thought we were a lot
rational and to be the only ones
they really could reason and ad
be in control of our mind a
this point has arrived freud and has us
said that the unconscious exists there
demonstrated several times in the arc precisely
of the last years that is of the century
last we make decisions
that are not rational we have gods
impulsive behaviors that do not
we can control and therefore not
we are as rational as we thought of
be like we are comforted again
from this incredible loss thinking
to be the only agents in the world in
reasonable manner
so the only ones who succeeded
really
to act and to interfere to change i
processes in a reasonable manner is
arrived alan turing aran touring ha
invented the computer as we know o
at least he laid the foundation for this
that to the era we are not living
the era of the fourth revolution that the
IT revolution e
information
we have become like animals
plants and related objects of the in ford
ie organisms that consume e
produce information if however a
extraterrestrial today should arrive and
try to read and try to understand
so what are the beings
more agents on the earth then i
dominant with whom to speak e
tried to do it through the internet
he would think that the objects are connected
that in 2020 will be 80 billion while
we humans
we will be only 7 billion then in
ford that mostly act
through the internet in the universe I am
objects
we are totally lost we are in one
dimension in which we are displaced there
we feel fallen into the den of white
millet and we have to reconsider the
geography the history the space the time i
millenials but even more than those
they are saying growing up after that
they read everything about digital that they already have
this geographical dimension
a perception is completely different
of the different component space us
what perception they will have of time
they will have the perception and they already have it
a present time
we are in for history
what you see here is the professor
luciano floridi, philosopher of the sector
of the internet institut of oxford that the
theoretical of the fourth revolution of the
the history of man is the one who created
also the term hyper history to make a
example of how it is really changing
our conception of history
based on the data, let’s see how it is
been so far
we have had the first period of the
history of man we do not know
absolutely nothing and prehistory
because we do not know anything because
no data was recorded therefore not
there was progress there was no linearity not
one could learn from experiences
from the mistakes of past generations
because they did not remain written and yes
he could build or imagine a future
based on past data throughout
the history of man until the invention
Of computer
man at one point produced
instead 12 hexabytes of exa byte of data from
when since he started to
let’s say trace
since he started with the first gilo
glyphs c
the first signs of primitives on
cave the first data to refer to and
go to consult to leave then from
that point to build the future then
12 exabytes up to the beginning of the computer
180 exabytes from the invention of the computer
to 2006
if we consider that history starts
since we launched to produce i
data
think that this is disproportion 12
bike e
until the invention of the computer and with
the invention v increase to 180 up to
2006 from 2006 to 2011
I look at my hand because I am marked
to make no mistake they arrived at nil
1600 exabytes you think of at the level of
history then as much as history in
some way if we were to give it one
spatial dimension has expanded
that is we have infinite data since 2006
to 2011 that exceed those thousands
of all the past history we go
ahead we entered the zeta era
byte
so we had a jump that
that they say precisely is exponential of
data and us until 2015 that the last
let’s say so studied threshold
from the institute of berkeley that he did
this analysis we have produced 8
z bytes of data
this means the hyper story
it becomes this dimension in which
daily they are produced in the
world that is in the info sphere ie in the
new environment and geographical space of
all connected objects that produce
and consume information that is linford
we every day of the sphere
we produce a mass of data that is eight
times all American libraries for
make an example that they did the
scholars of berkeley
therefore the present widens the risk
which we always thought about the man in
evolutionary terms from when it is
started the story so in short the
first is what at the end of the
prehistory
and then let’s say let’s go to evolve
and we thought it was evolutionary in reality
what can happen is exactly
the inverse
according to another philosopher the philosopher
which is called that is a philosopher
South Korean living and teaching in Berlin
and that he theorized precisely
an involution that goes on with the
new generations that substantially
they live an eternal present also us in
some way we live an eternal present
that is, to give a very simple example
when we do not write a text it
we write when we correct it first
we had the draft we did not write
by hand or by machine and then yes
He kept a copy then rewrote
until the nice copy came now
every time we do save on
changes what was there before comes
deleted this gives you a minimum
example of the culture in which we are
entered and it is a culture of introduction
and pro if that is where we process
this amount of data that already seems to us
too many of us journalists
to be somehow ordered
weighted and these data at some point
they become an eternal present which is the
present of the action therefore always have
as a dimension only that of the present
and only the very precise time that the
time of the action does somehow
disappear the time when it was not there
the action the time of idleness teach us
however the ancient Greeks that this
Western civilization was born on uncle i
great thinkers were those who
they hated and started meditating and
processavano in their minds data
somehow they built philosophies
and the civilizations of the future now time
that occurs between two actions is
It has become an empty time and it says this
time has long since become idle a
free time that goes filled with a
videogame with a purchase with something
that makes us entertain that distracts us
from the non-action then this time
precise that the time of the hyper history
the present e
it becomes the time of action over time
eternally present of the past action
is present
and this we simply see it too
looking for data in search engines
coexist to such an extent that in the future
probably people will not know
more when a thing belongs not the
sovereign more dating ie when
belongs to the past and when
belongs to the present
think now of all knowledge at all
libraries to all the archives
to all that some scholars still
they go to study to research and to
analyze but that most of the
young people of the people of the future who
they will be born a digital age will watch
more or less as we watch the
colosseum and will not open them if not
they will extract data and meaning
from what is not digitized today
as there are not too many funds too
in Italy there are parts of archives
totally unexplored part of archives
totally ignored
then pieces and parts of history
told and passed on only by i
winners could also be fake
news to be
on the news that they have built the
history but here the real real data those
of verification we can not even manage to
open because it would cost too much
engage people of researchers
who stop there and start studying
all those volumes without even knowing
in part what’s inside it would take
archimede pitagorico archimede
Pythagorean for years and years we say of
stories of Mickey Mouse tried to
invent the time machine in which
at least he tidies that up
situation experienced by nicole kidman in
others’ films but it seemed to us
science fiction, but no one has arrived
Another scientist another scholar
even an artist who invented one
scanner that is called replicating this
scanner is located at pf of losanna al
Polytechnic of Lausanne
he is called fredrik caplan frederica
caplan had an idea
say a stone in the sea dell’iper
history to put the time back in
Internet
he took all the library of
Venice the archive of Venice everything
the image archive of all the paintings
Venetians and passed them to this
very fast scanner so a thousand years of
certified history the library of
Venice managed by the Cini Foundation e
the one that has the most complete data of
all transactions that took place in Venice
who lived where those who did what
anything and was cadastral
registry all marked for a thousand years
therefore the most complete archive in
this sense to the world or at least of the
Western society by putting them in
this scanner that will soon be too
able to extract
sense from the closed books managed to
create patterns that serve
identify the same element in a
time and in a different space build
therefore an immense search engine
of the history of Venice that to make a
very simple example to understand
could allow as well as obviously
to scholars to access and study
all the texts we said
economically we do not have the
possibility of making or very few ce
they have to create a kind of google
map to stay in time space
google map of the past
that is, I find myself in piazza san marco e
I can go and see how the square was
400 years ago
if I have enough data that lived there
where there is now a shop
luxury clothing such as shop
there was in what has today become the
cafè best known in the square but
I can also do an operation of the
kind of people I can do the
kinder of casanova with whom he had
Casanova reports as it was found with
his girlfriends with whom they were married
his lovers with whom they were married i
very young will be like the fish that
he does not know what water is because they will be
already born in the digital age instead of us
we can see and we can look for how
he made fredrik caplan to find of
models and modes and technologies
to put the time on the internet for
ensure that the future inhabitants of the
earth the new ones in ford that will be human
and that will be in a very narrow minority
between objects that will talk to each other
they are increasingly without intermediation
of man can have the idea of
linearity and the time it has built
our civilization
thank you
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