Ieri prendevo in giro mia moglie perché si addormenta davanti ai film di Kubrick... "troppo lenti". Credo che il problema sia più... sistemico. Quanto afferma Moglen è vero, ma parziale. "Biased", direi.. ;-) Il nostro cervello si sta adattando ad un ritmo sempre più veloce. Oltre ai dati, oltre all'attenzione e alla libertà, il Capitalismo ci sottrae sempre più il Tempo. https://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2019/may/07/-moglen-at-republica19/ We are building the new neuro-anatomy of the human race. In the process we are destroying the human attention system, changing our idea of what it means to be human. The effect on our capacity for freedom and self-government is devastating, but not so bad for those who want to govern us. People are increasingly aware of the problem, but don’t know what to do. [...] Gram for gram, that smart phone is denser with sensing than the spy satellite in orbit, and it’s all aimed at you…We don’t need a thing in orbit to take a picture of a golf ball on the ground. Everybody has a little camera, and they take a picture… [...] The computers that we use now push us very hard. Tens of thousands of times a day, they show an advertisement and measure a response. [...] It’s very important to recognize that once behavior collection is what the network really does, then what it attempts to maximize is behavior. This lies beneath the increasingly important intellectual discipline known as persuasive design… [...] The stream of what comes to you [on the net] drowns the inner dialogue, removes interiority, changes your understanding of time. ‘Too long didn’t read.’ How long is too long?” [...] …people carrying an infant in a front carrier. The adult is looking here [phone], and the infant is looking at the adult looking at the phone. That’s the birth of a new cultural system in the human race, spreading faster than Christianity or Islam or any other fast-moving cultural innovation in the history of human kind… [...] Here is our problem: the attention span of the human race collectively is shortening. The previous autonomy of internal mind that we gained barely half a thousand years ago, and which we used to make democracy and the right of the individual and the sense of self-development [that] we call freedom is threatened by our own habits as they take hold in this net we do not want with these media that consume us as we consume them. [...] “‘tl;dr’ is the crisis of the human mind in five characters.”