Brief history of techno-cognitive revolutions

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…

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…

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,…