Editorial: The New Digital Era

Abstract

Human evolution has constantly been achieved by incorporating into it the inventions of those techniques identified from time to time as survival factors in a hostile environment, or at least to be governed according to purposes dictated by the humans living there. The human is therefore technical, regardless of whether hybridization reaches an organic integration that internalizes the technique to the point of making it indistinguishable from the organicity of the human, or whether it places itself in its exteriority with respect to the human who conceives it, governs it, and uses it without being used by it and without being governed by it. This threshold of indiscernibility has become increasingly thinner as evolution has become increasingly technical, arriving at technological devices that exempt themselves from being prostheses of the human in order to hegemonize it to the point of making the human its prosthesis—a radical change of paradigm, of its direction in the human-technical relationship, a Gestell that changes the episteme and the human condition itself, from the atomic bomb to the smartphone. 

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