I happened to be in office on that fateful day it snowed in Rome. While the flakes are beautiful perched like a fairy tale on the roofs of buildings, on dead vegetation in winter, on the roadside, I asked a question. The snow does not fall so much time in Rome? So naive and spontaneous questions arise in our mind every day and suddenly being met. Just go to google to find a thousand answers to one question. Comfortable and safe speed. But that day, unfortunately, are just a few flakes of snow to knock the system of internet connections in the Lazio Regional Council. At one point, the offices have started to empty, with no sign that the network we are not able to work more. That day I began to ask, but twenty years ago when the internet was only a niche market, I would like to get answers to my curiosity? Certainly I could submit my questions to my grandmother, and for greater accuracy I could have marked a newspaper, a library, an archive to discover even the date of the last true Roman snowfall. But how long would it take? Internet, it is true, to reduce delays. But today, where we invest all the time you recover? But as they did years ago without Google, without throwing the eye for a moment on you-tube, without writing fast e-mail and talk with friends without facebook? We wasted hours and hours doing things that today are solved in a second. But then how do we use all the time that we were able to save? Is it true that today than we were twenty years ago a more advanced society, wiser, more efficient, in short, more evolved? One thing is certain: we are only a society increasingly dependent. What would happen if tomorrow we pull the plug? Philosophers to the judge.
Angela Francesca D'Atri
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