*Éric Sadin is a philosopher, specialist in the digital world. He recently published “
La
Vie spectrale” with Éditions Grasset.
Thinking about the era of the metaverse and generative AI
”.
LE FIGARO. - Facebook is 20
years old.
By having access to the lives of others, have we become machines for comparing ourselves
?
ÉRIC SADIN. -
The event, with anthropological significance, inaugurated by Facebook, is the fact that interpersonal relationships have found themselves, for a regularly extensive part, mediated by screens.
Certainly, previously, e-mails had favored this dimension, but it was discontinuous, not via an interface allowing easily, and almost with a click, to display texts and images.
Everyone was given the opportunity to have their own page, to expose, in front of a large number of people and at will, sequences of their daily life.
This faculty gave beings the sensation of holding a social status as if suddenly upgraded.
Because what is unique about the platform is that it has brought visibility…
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