Are we heading towards a Knowledge Society or are we irremediably marching towards the Ignorance Society?

The Ignorance Society

We are witnessing, bewildered yet gripped at the same time, the birth of new forms of communication that constitute a true revolution comparable to the advent of speech, writing or the printing press. They are radically transforming the world around us and have deposited us at the threshold of a new period in history, The Second Modern Times.

Given this scenario, and despite the high hopes generated by the potentialities of the new network societies, we must ask ourselves: are we heading towards a Knowledge Society or are we irremediably marching towards the Ignorance Society?

The authors:

Antoni Brey (Sabadell, 1967) is a telecommunications engineer. He has been a member of the Quantum Information Group at the Institute for High Energy Physics (1998-2001) and is the author of the essays La Generación Fría (The Cold Generation) and El fenómeno Wi-Fi (The Wi-Fi Phenomenon). He is a founding member of the Fiasco Awards Team and the director of the documentary Un Tiempo Singular (A Singular Time).

Daniel Innerarity (Bilbao, 1959) is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Zaragoza. His latest books are Ética de la hospitalidad (The Ethics of Hospitality), La transformación de la política (The Transformation of Politics, which won him the 3rd Miguel de Unamuno Essay Prize and the 2003 National Essay Prize), La sociedad invisible (The Invisible Society, which won him the 21st Espasa Essay Prize), El nuevo espacio público (The New Public Realm) and El futuro y sus enemigos (The Future and Its Enemies). He is a regular contributor to the opinion columns in the newspapers El País and El Correo - Diario Vasco, we well as the magazine Claves de razón práctica.

Gonçal Mayos (Vilanova de la Barca, 1957) is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Barcelona, the coordinator of the doctoral programme on the 'History of Subjectivity' and President of the Liceu Maragall philosophical society. He has published on modern and contemporary thinking, inquiring into long-range and interdisciplinary processes that originate in today's society.
http://www.ub.edu/histofilosofia/gmayos/

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The Ignorance Society, edited by INFONOMIA and foreword by anthropologist Eudald Carbonell, will be presented this Thursday 14 May at 11am. the gardens of Ateneu Barcelonès and interventions with the editor and two of its authors, the engineer Antoni Brey and philosopher Gonçal Mayos.