La gran fragmentación

Digitization has been imposed in just over two decades. And the initial illusion in the face of this progress has been leaning towards disappointment, to the point of cracking almost all social and political consensus. The Internet was called to be the tool that would give way to a new, more free, decentralized and networked world, but it has become the domain of a handful of business giants. The new forms of communication have not united us, but too often bring us closer to tribalism, uncritical culture wars and harmful ideological bubbles. We receive services that we believe to be free but that are based on the covert extraction of our data. We have given away our privacy in exchange for entertainment and there are many who take refuge in their screens to avoid uncomfortable contact with others. Faced with this apparently dehumanized horizon, we have turned our gaze away from the scientific advances that are yet to come. In The Great Fragmentation, Ricardo de Querol carries out a shrewd reflection on how contemporary society has approached digital transformation. On how to reinforce its extraordinary advantages and how to correct its dangerous drawbacks. We have lost faith in progress and it is urgent to recover it.