The technology has accentuated the inequalities between the classes of knowledge, richer and longer-lived, and those left behind. And politics? The political class seems incapable of handling processes that change the economy, social relations and even the perception of democracy.

We are living through a revolution, which we have been underestimated so far: some jobs have dissappeared, new professions have arisen, digital giants appeared- such as Google and Facebook- becoming monopolies. If robots have replaced manual workers, artificial intelligence is now spreading in the area of intellectual jobs and services: for example, Uber is experimenting driverless vehicles in the streets of Pittsburgh. We already live in a world where lorries can travel safely from one city to another in a caravans guided by artificial intelligences that do not commit human errors. Watson, IBM’s supercomputer, is able to diagnose cancer and identify the most appropriate treatment for each individual patient. We will also soon witness a new age of journalism in which more and more articles will be written by robots. In addition, sophisticated softwares are used in legal professions to investigate judicial cases and establish the extent of a sentence. Finally, the brains of the web are working towards the latest technology, the blockchain, to open a democratic Internet season.
The truth is that we are moving towards a new season of inequality: the pockets of unemployment poverty or underpaid precarious jobs on the one hand, and a wealthy elite who use technology to live better and longer on the other. Large groups of the Internet economy are accumulating enormous wealth, while the average income of citizens has stopped growing for decades. Jobs, more and more impossible to find in Europe, have been increasingly proletarianized in the US. If we do not intervene soon, we risk social and political earthquakes.