The prophecy of the empty civilization
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Introduction
We live in the future that Weber feared, a present dominated by algorithms and systems that seem to predict every step. Civilization, dressed up as modernity, hides in its entrails a disturbing truth.
Development
Max Weber's prophetic vision is becoming increasingly tangible. His description of a society of "spiritless specialists" and "heartless sensualists" is reflected in our dependence on technology: data, algorithms and automated systems that replace intuition and mystery. The irony is that, in our apparent sophistication, we have lost the connection to the human, transforming advancement into programmed coldness.
Source: Wikipedia - The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism.
Conclusion
Every prophecy can be reversed if we wake up in time. The challenge is to restore the soul to technology, the mystery to information and the fire to the human heart, reconfiguring a future where the human and the digital coexist in harmony.
"No one knows who will live in this cage in the future, or whether at the end of this tremendous development entirely new prophets will arise, or whether there will be a great revival of old ideas and old ideals, or neither, but mechanized petrification, adorned with a sort of convulsive conceit. For of the last phase of this cultural development one could say, without being untrue: 'Specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart: this nullity imagines that it has reached a level of civilization never known before.'"
- Max Weber, The Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism