Introduction

Have you ever felt a detox1 from the technological trinkets around you? Or are you so immersed in a vibrant, fast and overstimulated world that you can’t break away? Have you been able to experience the temporary absence of those digital artefacts and have you felt the sensation of discomfort that comes from it? Which subset of thought do you belong to: that of «that’s how it is, without asking anything else» or the more critical and reflective one?

We have become sick of the myth of total control. The idea of ​​being able to govern environments and contexts that satisfy the feeling of control and supremacy, gratifying our dominant ego. Hence the tendency to delegate the responsibility for notification to automated systems that operate on decision-making paths described by chains of conditions (IF-THEN) of the technological self to external, sensorial elements.

Addiction

We are in an increasingly dense cage of interconnections, dependent on an outside environment that influences our thinking and our work in a cloud context, anesthetizing us in the face of an atrophic artificial intelligence.

We need to reconquer the areas that algorithms have colonized, making use of immeasurable human capacity and cognitive strength.

Loss of control

It all seems easy but, it is based on assumptions that reinforce a thought whose foundations are unstructured: a mix of perception of possession of information (cloud), the availability of which is made possible with impressive ease, beyond geographical and temporal borders, and supported by an apparently fake encryption.

People, companies and nations have lost control of their data, unknowingly exposing themselves to global surveillance.

Catastrophic globalization

Consider space, understood as digital universe, a place where distance is objectively relative and human activity can take place without perimeter obstacles with the narrative of open markets.

The «common market» which promises infinite growth thanks to the removal of territorial barriers and the harmonization of standards; in reality, it is a chimera: the religion of the enrichment of the few and the enslavement of the many, which inevitably leads to a catastrophic globalization.

The loss of the bearer payable at sight

Since January 1999, the freedom to hold a banknote bearing the words «payable on sight to bearer» has been gradually eliminated. This silent modification is only the first phase of a deeper transformation that will lead to the rigorous use of the blockchain, the objective of which will be to record in a first digital note all the movements of the banknote in digitized form since its genesis.

The new digital bureaucracy

Modernity has transformed our ability to think into a mere parenthesis of productivity in pursuit of sterile numbers, sacrificed on the altar of a digital bureaucracy that self-reproduces and spreads like a virus.

These adjustments, rather than solving problems, act as conditional barriers (IF) inserted into every phase of human existence, from the first breath to the last. Thus, instead of expanding intellectual freedom, technology erects a labyrinth of artificial rules that standardize ideals with a sterile aesthetic, erasing the spontaneity and depth of human experience.

Go beyond the photos

  • ynet 01/26/2026. Good job, Handela: Netanyahu covered up the mobile camera - and it caused a storm in the Arab world, learn more.

  • Corriere della Sera 16/06/2022. Zuckerberg’s obsession with privacy: he covers his webcam and microphone with duct tape, learn more.

  1. Digital detox is a voluntary and conscious break from the use of electronic devices and assistants (smartphones, tablets, smartwatches, connected cars, etc.) and related online services (social media, push notifications, continuous streaming). ↩︎