Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 13:56:05 -0400
From: Alfredo Armando AGUIRRE, <[email protected]>

WARNING: THE FOLLOWING IS A NON-EDITED AUTOMATIC TRANSLATION FROM SPANISH

In the measure of my possibilities, I consider myself incorporate to the frenzy that in many people, it induces in present phenomenon of what are denominated the Technologies of the Communication and the Information, in these days emblematizadas for Internet.

Some time ago, we sustained in some of the telematic forums in that we participate that these technologies hit a quantum jump (expert as synonym of supine) when the humanist ones and the social activists, began to appropriate of the same ones.

And this way, as many they have brought their practices and even their manias to the Net, this way the dynamics that the same ones generate, they are evidencing new expressive veins to the permanent of the human condition.

I know that the Castilian's purists, consider an anglicism the notion of "state of the art", but the speedy dynamics of the phenomenon on which are reflecting, restitution temporary many conclusions, since many times the expansion omnidireccional of the ICT, overcomes what one can imagine.

We come sustaining that these tools comunicacionales, don't change the much of unalterable that there is in the human condition. That is to say they serve as tool so that each one is dignified or it is reviled, according to that that each one in their outline valorativo, consider dignificación and debasement. Perogrullo would say that the ICT, doesn't solve the problem of the good and of the wrong. But I am made that a phenomenon so avasallante, threatens to repensar the human adventure. In all their dimensions.

As to begin with some part, had bill of the limitations of all emprendimiento monográfico, I am made that the dynamic ICT, resignifica many concepts coined previously, being arrived in many cases to potenciarlos or to put them again in validity. We would be exaggerated, if sustains that there is a new logical ICT, but at least yes we can notice that they go spreading new operative modalities, mainly in the topic of the human communication. And mainly they leave adding every time new users to the possibility comunicacional.

In this point it is debated, if the ICT aíslan to people. And here we necessarily enter in something so polemic, as the same life. In my opinion (would it be superb to qualify her of humble?), of makes me that the remiss ones to communicate without ICT, will also be it with ICT. But the possibility opens up, and I attribute to this idea that the ICT, gives possibility to communicate by means of these tools, and they had not made it if these doesn't exist.

Each one can make attachés to an imaginary listing of characteristic, let us don't say advantages, of the ICT, to the moment to conceive this development, I am happened to consign the FACILITATION and THE DIVERSITY.

Some few years ago, I related to a veteran journalist of the interior of my Argentina, some characteristics of Internet and the man told me. "it is as the radioaficionados...."

And the sharp observer was in the certain thing.

There is a very clear evolutionary line from the telegraph to Internet. In presence of the telegraph, Julio Verne said: "all that a man can imagine another will be able to carry out it", and it seems that San Isidoro of Seville, he had said something similar in the Half Age. Although in this case the telegraph didn't exist. Of the telegraph to Internet, we go by the telephone, the cinema, the broadcasting, the television, the fax, the photocopier and mainly the personal computer. And their variants or combinations.

But there is something that the difference and more and more that is the EASINESS of the employment of the ICT. And it is it a deliberate effort to what has not been other people's the market logic.

The reasoning is simple: when more people can make the telematic, more consumers' of the same ones employment there will be. For it, one of the variants of this facilitation, was the revaluation of the autodidactismo concept, now renowned as " autoaprendizage ". Undoubtedly, as always it happens, there are bothersome people, because they have lost the mystery halo that supposed that few manage something as if they were initiate. In front of that inconfesado oligarchical feeling, it appears the bias democratizador of the ICT. And we already know that when the concretions, we all are democratic, but the resistances to enlarge accesses to everything that make to the human but worthy, sometimes usually appears in bloody form.

The playwright Spanish Hyacinth Benavente, mentioned theatrically to the created Interests". In spite of the sinful and eternal sinful structures, inclined to defend multiple status quos, the ICT enslaved those resistances. Everything it and but that escapes to our imagination it cares the notion of Facilitation in the ICT.

But it stops who navigates assiduously for the Net, and with curious spirit, the most attractive thing is a DIVERSITY that you/they seemed not to see, those that shake the ghost of the unique thought."

Remembering the Martin's Iron verse, of: Until the hair but thin / Makes their sombre in the floor.., one goes perceiving that all that that has something to express the he/she goes overturning the Net.

I am of those that believe, for vivencias and previous studies that in each place of the planet, there are people with restless spirits. I have known in my voyages for the Argentinean interior, a sample of what I sustain. In each place they are a handful in relation to the rest. A very small handful.

But clear, in the Blue Planet, there is innumeros restless spirits that don't even conform group some, to be independent personalities. Good that whole human energy, begins to be overturned in The net. As you will read, for fraseando to a trip character to the Stars", we are before a growing ocean of diversity."

I invite to verify this statement, making creative employment of anyone of the search engines, available in the Net. The incorporation of contents is of a progression that overcomes to the exponential thing. It would be irreverent if attempted some enumeration of that diversity that I find inabarcable individually.

It is that Diversity, to which contribute also, the automatic and gratuitous translators that go demolishing in a surprising way the idiomatic barriers, the one that makes us be optimistic as for the creative employment of the ICT, and the one that makes us be grateful to the gods, to have given us the opportunity that vivenciar, something that they didn't have opportunity to make it who preceded us in the succession of vital parables toward the unfathomable thing.

Buenos Aires, April 12 2000

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