Walking History

The most important difference beetween mankind and the rest of the nature is the possibility of condivision of culture and knowledge. Condivision is like a red line that envolves all the history of human being, and represents in all the historical periods an important element of growing of knowledge, that cause the diffusion and the usability of methods, concepts and rules.

We used to say, as Newton, that we are “on the shoulder of giants”: we can use the work maded in a very long time by our ancestors, and we can learn by ours errors. We all refers ourselves to other for an infinite list of wills, needs and rules: this kind of condivision is an unique human ability, and generates education, speech, writing and other tecnical solutions.

Now we can use new tecnologies like Internet or other web tecnologies who presupposed the cooperation of persons and concepts as their bases: the interaction between person and concepts is now explicit, for the first time in the history of knowledge. This cause a new kind o philosophical problems, that ingages on first the gap beetween who have a complete access to the culture and who don't. To stand on the shoulder of the giant is quite impossible for more than an half of mankind, and virtually impossible for the major part of the other.

Can really the culture be a product owned by a limited number of persons? Or tecnical solution who consent the interrelation of a large number of person can save it by the destruction?