Aquí un fragmento de la conferencia que tuvimos el martes 20 de septiembre con la Dra. Eva Berger.

Eva Berger is a professor of Media Studies at COMAS in Israel. She serves as Secretary of the Institute of General Semantics. She is co-author of The Communication Panacea: Pediatrics and General Semantics. She holds a Ph.D. in Media Ecology from New York University. Her latest book, Context blindness: Digital technology and the next stage of human evolution, was published by Peter Lang.

Eva Berger’s lecture – Context blindness: Digital technology and the next stage of human evolution – is based on her new book with the same title. The book’s thesis is that since we have delegated the ability to read context to contextual technologies such as social media, location, and sensors, we have become context blind. And since context blindness—or caetextia in Latin—is one of the most dominant symptoms of autistic behavior, people with autism may be giving us a peek into our human condition soon. Phenomena such as cancel culture, trigger warnings, and safe spaces are early signs. With increasingly frequent floods and fires and unbearably hot summers, the human footprint on our planet should be evident to all, but it is not because we are context blind. We are witnessing evolution in real-time and birthing our successor species. Our great-grandchildren may be a species very distinct from us: Homo caetextus.