Le tecnologie digitali e i futuri perduti

Flussi di dati come archivi

Abstract

My paper aims at underlining how the current use of digital technologies is generating an important transformation in the relationship between the past and the future. More specifically, the registration for eternity of our data, which we share on the social networks, determines the continue overlapping of the past on the present. In this way, it is impossible to tell apart the present from the past and this implies the slow cancellation of the future. Firstly, my paper, through the studies by Douglas Rushkoff and Mark Fisher, aims at describing the exorbitant amount of data and information which we accumulate on the social networks. Secondly, it aims at showing that the social networks have become the digital archives that shape in a new way the relationship between memories and oblivion. This digital relationship produces the social and the cultural conditions from which the users of the internet live now in the past and forget the future.