Człowiek sieci, czyli kilka słów o nowym determinizmie technologicznym

For centuries man has been described as a thinking, social and even symbolic being. The second decade of the twenty-first century is the time when hypermediacy – that is, the ability to communicate simultaneously in many spaces or simply in one, mixed world – has become an attribute of man. Mixing worlds can also make it difficult to recognize what is still human and what is already robotic. We are more and more often dealing with the process of so-called human robotization. The main aim of the article is to reflect on the influence of technology on human nature. Contemporary digitalization of human relations leads to far-reaching transformations of epistemological and even ontological nature. Who will we be (or maybe we already are?) – as people – when our fridges, washing machines, cars and coffee machines will remind us of certain activities we should do, or which we should not forget. Are we going to use them or maybe they will use us? Who does human being become today? The thoughts of science fiction authors become reality. The creators of robots still surprise with new features. A man who is a hypermedia being can have difficulty in separating human reality from media virtuality.