The protection of children in isolation

Children who speak alone in front of the television, teenagers who walk on headphones, young children fed in front of a screen and, at any age, the mobile phone day and night.

They are isolated, with many links in the networks but with great difficulty to interact with someone.

Should it touch the hearts of adults? Philosophy and neuroscience tell us that we need to pay attention to many things.

From one side, the information received constantly is excessive, it stops being useful; the memory becomes useless and replaced by the Internet.

Addiction replaces critical thinking and it is badumed that everything that appears in the digital world is what needs to be done. In this way, everyone sets goals unceasingly, but since time or money does not reach the threshold, guilt arises because they can not reach them. It's self-exploitation, the company's exhaustion due to the ego's exhaustion.

One realizes that it is wrong to eat all day without stopping, but one does not pay attention to the fact that it feeds the brain day and night without letting it rest. This produces an autonomous narrative of the mind that does not stop: he eats while thinking of something else, looks without seeing, sleeps restlessly. Ideas range from subject to subject, like a sparrow leaping from branch to branch, without control, even when there is another person in the face who wants to say something. The reflective badysis of reality is replaced by the echo of oneself.

On the other hand, there is the question of confidentiality because everything is registered somewhere on the Internet. Photos, videos, personal data, web pages visited, movies viewed, groups on networks, money spent and the amount consumed. All of this can cause problems in the future.

A person may be rejected in a job because of his or her personal history on the Internet or pay more expensive insurance because, depending on her genetic code or medical history, she is on the Internet, she knows that she is or will be suffering from An illness.

In his adult life, he could be criticized by a photo of him, posted to adolescence when he was committing excesses and getting drunk, or by an opinion lightly published in the networks when he was young. and was not aware of the determining factor of his reputation on the web.

If you watched movies or navigated to a website, you will receive similar information because an algorithm will detect your likes and dislikes. They will know their entire economic life and their tastes in terms of consumption because all their data will be available in a single click.

As you walk through the cities, you will be completely filmed and you will know what you did, who you visited, and your tastes in tourism. It will be an inhabitant of transparency because everything will be known, and this will increase the feeling of being constantly monitored, as well as the feeling that there is no interior space.

This will shift from a citizen who chooses his representatives to a chosen subject to be directed to voting or thinking in a certain way.

In the 20th century, thinkers like Orwell and Huxley warned against a controlled society. Today, we read philosophers like Byung Chul Han who say that we give our data so that they control us and generate permanent anxiety. Children who are projects, adults in perpetual performance and a tired society.

It is possible that somebody ignores these problems because they seem abstract, but you must read the philosophers as they tend to anticipate what is going on. Much of what they say is happening, and the debate already has an economic and social entity.

There is no doubt that the technological revolution has brought great progress to the world and that its contribution to the development of society has been fundamental, but we should think about legislation and public policies that are consensual, because we are confronted with a huge risk, especially for children and for the country's future.