Too much convenience dulls our minds. The pitfalls of digital atrophy

As Marshall McLuhan taught, communication technologies are prostheses: extensions of our physical and cognitive abilities. 

However, smartphones and digital media go further: they are not mere prostheses but vital organs, without which we sink into anxiety and bewilderment.

By now, we are addicted.

Delegating our thinking to technology is convenient, but it comes with a heavy price.

What Ottoman calligraphers can teach us about AI

"History teaches, but it has no pupils," claimed the Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci.

It's hard to disagree, particularly when the frontiers of digital innovation stir up ancient fears.

Over the past two years, the acceleration of artificial intelligence has disrupted every facet of our lives.

New professions have emerged, while many traditional ones fear being wiped out, especially in the creative field: their concerns are not unfounded.

The new normal after Covid19 is simply the old one

"Everything will be fine" and "we will be better": two phrases that, in the spring of two years ago, we often listened to online and offline.

Two phrases that had to give us hope and courage: Covid19 was a terrible dare, but we would have overcome it together and would have become better, more cooperative and supportive.