The examination of historical precedents, in which certain cognitive technologies invented by humankind (alphabet, scientific instruments, photography) resulted in the emergence of new forms of human intelligence through the ingenuity of a few humans, favors the analysis of the advent of Artificial Intelligence to try to imagine the future forms of Extended Intelligence, that is,…
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In this ambivalent context, shared digital knowledge has also been the foundation for the development of Artificial Intelligence. Machines, through massive access to human-generated data (text, images, code, interactions), have been able to learn, process and imitate human language and thought. The network has thus become the collective brain from which AI has been able…
However, alongside these virtuous developments, the same infrastructure has facilitated the spread of low-quality content, fake news, simplifications and biases typical of many social media. The algorithmic management of information, aimed at maximizing engagement, has often privileged emotionalism and brevity over complexity and depth, contributing, according to various studies, to a decline in the average…
The advent of the World Wide Web has generated a profound but still unfinished intellectual revolution, comparable in impact to the invention of printing. Since the 1990s, the Web has transformed the way humanity produces, shares and enjoys knowledge, contributing-along with the mass media-to the construction of a global consciousness. Events, ideas, crises and innovations…
The 20th century is marked by the rise of mass media, which join the press with more inclusive forms of communication. Cinema established itself in France, then radio invented by the Italian Marconi, and later TV, synthesized these two inventions and dominated the second half of the century. In 1895 The Lumière brothers patented the…
On the other front of the revolution described, not that of the painters but that of the photographers, quickly the new technique becomes established and gains a central role in modern society. For modern man it turns out to be true what is photographed. If a painter painted a battle months or years after its…
Abstract art is also the basis of design, and of an aesthetic that has endowed the industrialization of goods and modern mass affluence with beauty. This passage has not been sufficiently explored, but it demonstrates the magnitude of the cognitive revolution of modern art and the impact it has had on our entire society and…
Art, and particularly contemporary art, might be considered marginal among the great processes of human civilization. However, the role of art is crucial if we analyze the forms and evolution of human intelligence. Marshall Mc Luhan writes, “The artist is that person who in any field, scientific or humanistic, grasps the implications of his own…
Beyond Galileo’s biographical story, we all know the subsequent achievements of the experimental scientific method, which literally changed the world and the lives of our species. Instruments such as the telescope, microscope and other observational technologies have significantly expanded the ability to observe natural and man-made phenomena. Measuring instruments, such as scales, thermometers, electrical devices…
The experimental scientific method is a further intellectual mutation, related to the introduction of certain cognitive technologies, particularly observation and measurement tools. An absolute protagonist in this field is Galileo Galilei, author of several inventions and innovations that led him to overcome the medieval principle of truth based on sacred texts and classical tradition, thus…
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