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10:23

(In »The free and open Internet versus the ecological apocalypse«)

What is striking in the information-technology writing of history is how Man hardly changes at all over time. Our genes are largely identical with our ancestors’ genes from 50,000 years ago. It is our technological environment that has undergone an incredibly dramatic change over the past 5,000 years, while we ourselves must be content with the same cognitive and intellectual equipment that people had back then. Five thousand years is quite simply an all too short time period: it spans an all too small number of generations for any dramatically significant mutations in our genetic make-up to be able to arise. In addition, during the last few decades technological development has undergone an unprecedented acceleration, not least when it comes to information technologies. This means that Man is the constant and technology is the variable in the information-technology writing of history.