Communication and information in a virtualising world. Foreseeable developments and functions

Abstract

The world virtualises the moment information and communication accompany or substitute face-to-face activities. Personal relations are virtualised and so are daily-life activities. Prospective is used here to envisage alternative futures, which will be possible in a virtualised world, while anthropology serves to assess which futures are desirable or not in the horizon of a more humanised world. Scientific and deontological criteria are analysed so teaching and communicative practices contribute to make the desirable future is possible.