Critique of digital rationality. New frontiers for ethics and philosophy

One of the myths of this unfinished Modernity through which the current techno- scientific civilization is passing is the idea that we openly find ourselves in an information society. Ours is an era of civilization characterized by the overwhelming emergence of interconnection systems, whereby, mediated by "digital devices", we have, in addition, the firm conviction of possessing the control of knowledge and with it the control of our own freedom, or of our sense of freedom. Thus, we link freedom of information and freedom of action, with that of the sense of mastery of our living space. However, all the detected signs of this informational society allow us to conclude that we are rather in a world in which we are dominated by means of a "digital rationality"