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" "Digital technologies allow people, today more than ever, to stay connected and communicate, overcoming many distances. And with a technological system for communicating and thinking, a kind of intelligence distributed everywhere and growing all the time is being formed at the same time. The Internet, in fact, involves the sharing of resources, time, content, ideas. The now classic example is Wikipedia, which beyond any evaluation is the fruit of the convergence of many people, connected together across the planet, who think and write. Intelligence is distributed wherever there is humanity, and today it can be easily interconnected. The network of this knowledge gives rise to a form of 'collective intelligence' or common consciousness. [...] The Net is called from being a place of 'connection' to becoming a place of 'communion'. The risk these days is to confuse the two terms. Connection in itself is not enough to make the Net a place of fully human sharing. Working towards this goal is the specific task of the Christian.
Antonio Spadaro (born 1966), Italian Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian.
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Interviewer: Well Salvini out of government? Antonio Spadaro: It is not clear how this will end. In any case, Salvini's role in the League's sovereignist mutation, after twenty years in which the party has expressed real capacity for government rooted in the territory will have to be investigated. From green it has turned black. For me the question, after the bathing coup, is the relationship between Salvini, a charismatic personality who has absorbed the party into himself, and the League itself. The question is what the right in Italy can be. A question that has never been resolved.
Comprendiamo bene come Wikipedia rappresenti un sogno illuminista di descrivere il mondo, che però si scontra con le difficoltà di accreditarsi come compendio di sapere credibile, mantenendo nel contempo anonimato, flessibilità e continua apertura a nuovi collaboratori. Nello stesso tempo questa «utopia» rovescia il sogno dell'enciclopedia tradizionale, intesa come costruzione autorevole, organica e integrata del sapere. Infatti Wikipedia è come un organismo vivente: cresce (al ritmo dei 7% ogni mese), si «ammala», è sottoposta a composizioni e scomposizioni interne, ad accrescimenti e riduzioni continue. Ma soprattutto Wikipedia nasconde un'altra utopia, a suo modo, ambigua: la democrazia assoluta del sapere e la collaborazione delle intelligenze molteplici che dà vita a una sorta di intelligenza collettiva. Questa utopia potrebbe nascondere una nuova forma di «torre di Babele», che ha il suo tallone di Achille non solo nell'inaffidabilità, ma anche nel relativismo. [...] Le sue «utopie» nascono, radicalizzandole, dalle esigenze profonde della conoscenza umana, che i wíki, in generale, aiutano a trasformare in progetti concreti: il conoscere inteso come un processo dinamico, aperto a tutti, e frutto non solo di un impegno individuale, ma anche di una profonda collaborazione e di un intenso confronto tra menti disposte a condividere abilità e intelligenza. Questa potenzialità deve però confrontarsi con limiti strutturali invalicabili che si possono riassumere nella mancanza di certa autorevolezza e di un'esposizione continua al vandalismo, che rischia di vanificare gli sforzi positivi.
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I believe that in Internet there is a highly spiritual dimension. I would like to mention at least one person, a great Jesuit, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who with his books, with his insights, his idea of the noosphere anticipated the idea of the Internet... We are talking about a Jesuit who lived in times when the Internet was not even conceivable, but he largely anticipated this phenomenon. I would also say that, in my opinion, the Internet is a reality that has strong spiritual potential.