The technological revolution, the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

We have entered the era of the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence that have undone the definitions that applied until recently, the separation of real and virtual, categories that no longer exist with the increasingly massive digitization of processes. In the age of the Metaverse and Artificial Intelligence everything takes on different contours and there are aspects that are still little known. Digitization as a process and the speed with which technology produces new tools have meant that never before as in this historical era have, we been inundated with an over-production of data that must be deciphered, interpreted and understood. This is an epochal change that affects society and especially people. The fragmentation of individual identity also depends on the power of technology in the modern world. So many people live parallel and virtual realities, even exploiting fake profiles on social media, and depend on technological tools on a daily basis. All connected and in fact increasingly alone. This makes clear the paradox that results from the materialization of social interaction processes that are the consequence of disintermediation, which puts the individual at the center, who does not govern the process but adapts to the environment. A second effect is that in such a context, the proliferation of information cascades, the ease with which fake news is relaunched through the web and persists in digital environments is a demonstration of how difficult it can be to identify them and how much more difficult it is to give rise to positive cultural and identity transformations capable of blocking polarizing drives and the shattering of social ties.