JAVIER ECHEVERRÍA - La revolución tecnocientífica

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[Music] Very well, first of all, I sincerely thank Tec de Monterrey and the Alfonso Reyes Chair for this invitation to give this talk, this lecture with all of you, about the technoscientific revolution, which in some way includes Silvia Garza, who invited me most directly, and thank you for all her kindness and attention.

Uh, this conference somehow integrates this recent book that I published last year with the Fondo de Cultura Económica. Uh, it integrates my lines of research in philosophy of science, on the one hand, and in new information and communication technologies, on the other. So, I call this the technoscientific revolution. If we start projecting the

transparencies now, in the meantime, get an idea of ​​what this land could have been like in 1904, what this area where this splendid campus is located could have done, what Mexico was like at that time, or what the international balance of power was in 1904, right? I mean, before the First World War, uh, and before, well, I don't know,

before Einstein published his article, uh, his articles on the theory of relativity, uh, in 100 years the changes have been impressive at the local level, uh, I mean, here is this campus and there are also all these facilities, these internet connections in what is the first environment, let's say, the ground uh and the nature uh that

is still present on this campus, the university campus itself plus then the virtual campus. These are the three environments, an example of the three environments I'm talking about. And if we think globally, worldwide, the changes in power relations are impressive, perhaps the most significant being the clear dominance of the United States of