Digital futures: A brief essay on sustainable life in the digital age

Rafael Capurro

Abstract


The following reflections are based on the premise that individual and social life is open not only to a single goal, in a deterministic historical process, but rather, to a number of possibilities, among which we can find digitalisation. Society, understood as interaction among free citizens and between them and their government, must now promote everyone’s participation in the creation of potential digital futures. These must be based on fair rules and also promote digital literacy both in the sense of educating citizens in the management of digital technologies and in giving them the tools to reflect critically upon them in relation to sustainable lifestyles.

Keywords


digital age; sustainable living; misinformation; surveillance; thinking

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7203/metode.10.12539

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