Barcelona is from this Sunday the world capital of mobile telephony thanks to the Mobile World Congress. An event that has earned the trust of the city, now even the current mayor puffs up her celebration, and the city has earned the trust of the event to the point of becoming its permanent headquarters. The celebration of this fair, which is what it finally is, coincides with the consternation caused by the case of the Sallent twins, of which we still do not know everything, so it may be that we do not know anything. Quickly, the ayatollahs of technophobia they have jumped on the wave of that commotion to blame everything on mobile screens, which have become weapons of mass destruction for adolescents. The same thing happened a few years ago with television., in whose arms they were raised, certainly against the will of their parents, who now abjure the motive. Neither life before the mobile was exempt from all kinds of calamities, nor was life before television a paradise. Quite the contrary. Before television, many men got distracted at night by beating their wives. And before the mobile, we lived tragedies based on all kinds of phobias. If we come to the conclusion that banning cell phones in school yards will free us from some suffering, let’s do it. But let’s not trust too much. We do not like the values we have given our children when we see them become adults. The great Luis Duch called that the transmission crisis. The sallent school It could have failed to detect what was going on, but so did the parents of the bullies if that was the problem.
Technophobia also encourages these days the fear of cryptocurrencies or artificial intelligence. Just as the oil companies encouraged fear of nuclear companies, those who see their territory threatened defend it. Banks do not like cryptocurrencies. AND Ayatollahs don’t like cell phones to reduce the volume of their minarets. It’s called progress. It is not necessary to defend it without more, but neither to hate it in the same way.