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be established. This could be seen as a sort of Digital Historical Identity: the digital trace of our existence as a consultable unicum.
For some visionaries Social Media are already old and will disappear in the future. In the history
of technological innovations, technology itself tends to disappear: it becomes invisible while becoming substantial. The future of Social Media is not about posts, mobile apps and
Social Media platform pages, but rather about Cyber-Physical-Social Hyperspace where we can meet someone and be able to see and know all the events that concern her/him thanks also to new wearable devices (even chips under the skin). Here we are entering philosophical debates on transhumanism and enhanced humans
that require experts and intellectuals who are not subservient to technocracy in order to adequately define this new possible world and to prevent it from leading to danger or even a catastrophe.
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