"I am learning to be Tanya"

The author of the course “Social Communications in the context of a post -industrial society”, a corporate culture consultant, MGIMO teacher Anton Gumensky held a seminar “ What is different from downshifting in the Cloudwatcher’s social innovation laboratory? ". Slon publishes the main theses of the seminar.

There is nothing strange in the fact that today we live a quick life. Anthony Hiddens begins his book “The Elbing World” with the quote “The world moves rapidly and approaches to an end”. These words were said by Archbishop Wulfstan during a sermon in the city of York in 1014. XI century.

Any talk about the dangers of the Internet today smack of Luddism. Humanity has always been afraid of progress and new technologies. At one time, people broke steam spinning wheels - and now we are also afraid of the Internet, we believe that he is fixing us. My students from the semester to the semester write works in which they set out their apocalyptic thoughts that the Internet will lead us all by the end, Facebook kills live communication and so on. It is funny that the works that consider the new Internet capabilities are much less than the works that say about its harm. At the same time, there is a suspicion that the current acceleration is really something different from the acceleration in which humanity lived before.

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