Dear FISers,
I would like to exchange views about one of the aspects of my work (although is not the central theme of my thesis, and I will delay the post of the "sociotype" subject after summer time). We are contemplating the adverse consequences of the technology use. It relates to the discussions had in Milton Keynes conference, basically between Pedro and Liesbet and Luciano about the social pitfalls of contemporary information technologies. (I think that the records of these sessions can be found in the web)
What we are considering is that the Information Technology grandeur (the brilliant aspects are publicized everywhere!) is accompanied by a growing sense of information saturation and impoverished socialization. Loneliness and depression indicators are in the raising, and happiness indicators are in the declining. The whole ITs effects on time allocation, learning, cognitive and emotional development, social bonding, and mental health have been scarcely searched...
Clearly, other unwanted effects more distant from mental health, such as the energetic burden, the pollution, the waste, the accelerated obsolescence, and the pilfering of valuable (e irreplaceable) mineral resources are seemingly beyond the "tunnel vision" promoted by information techno-utopians and propagandists. The micro-rationality of individual decisions in the market-context may conduce in the aggregate to utter social irrationality.
What do you think about this controversy? Best, Raquel -- --------------------------------------------------------- Raquel del Moral Grupo de Bioinformacion / Bioinformation Group Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud Centro de Investigación Biomédica de Aragón (CIBA) Avda. San Juan Bosco 13, 50009 Zaragoza Tfno. +34 976 71 44 76 E-mail. rdelmoral.i...@aragon.es ---------------------------------------------------------
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