I believe that the revolution of the new technologies is, in a way, much older than we think. I do not believe that there is a linear history that starts with the hard technologies i.e. the range of tools we use on the anthropological scale to the soft technologies, the ones dealing with energy on the information scale. But today we are facing an explosion of the soft technologies which, for this very reason, exploit culture. Mr Serres maintained that what is changing is the human subject, the cognitive subject. We are also changing our scientific paradigms completely.
Science is no longer at all what it used to be.
But he is not worried about either the deep transformation of either the human subject or of scientific paradigms. This is not new in the world of sciences, he said. The cognitive subject has often changed in keeping with the development of the soft technologies. There is today a traded culture, it is the one which is being globalizable. This is a type of cultural object which refers to human experiences.