Abstract:
While observing the digital society, complexity appears as key dominant,
most of all if compared to the analogic one. Complexity is intrinsic to
the digital society, which enables a faithful description of reality: any
heterogeneity is included thus highlighting the Reductionism limits in
depicting the reality by simplifying it. The digital perspective allows for a
new dimension in our daily life, especially in fields such as work, among
the most engaged by the change. Data role is changing, too: from a means
to represent the reality to a constituent of reality itself. Such a process is
ongoing, for instance, in data protection and security: basically, a technical
issue but ever more relevant in key aspects of life until touching individual
rights. To handle the complexity, to govern technological change and ecosocial
transition, to make the best of the Big Data and AI, we need an
adequate cultural elaboration allowing the social contract to upgrade to
the digital dimension.
