The "smartphone" and the theatre of Epidaurus
- Ariane Bilheran
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La Licorne (the Unicorn) No. 25 by Ariane Bilheran, December 1, 2025.
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Today we feel that something is happening to redefine humanity. Faced with the advances of transhumanist ideology and its totalitarian ambitions to create a "new man", a clever combination of man and machine, the wisest among us will undoubtedly remind us — and thus shout themselves hoarse in vain in the wilderness — that humanity cannot delude itself into thinking it is being redefined, while its nature endures, immutable, through the centuries, as do the tragic, and sometimes comic, challenges that are its own.
Perhaps the most explicit object in this regard, the one that marks the redefinition of this humanity, is the smartphone. More than the computer, it has become, in recent decades, a material object as indispensable as our clothes.
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