La "questione della tecnica" nell'era della digitalizzazione. Note critiche sulla razionalità ingegnieristica.

This article aims to provide a key to understanding how engineering has assumed not only the features of a new scientia scientiarum, but also of “the new way of the world”. Computer science, genetic engineering and biotechnology jointly act as the custodian of the last great historical–universalistic mission to be accomplished, that is, the improvement of humankind and life on the planet. The dream of Bacon, Saint–Simon, Comte and Spencer is becoming true. In an increasingly pervasive way, the logic of engineering provides parameters and contents to political and economic decision–making. It mobilizes tools that are apt to remodel the theory and practice of the rule of law, of the constitution, of democratic citizenship, as well as of the common good. Computer science, genetic engineering and biotechnology can reconfigure ad libitum what is and what we are. The article points at the inability on the side of the existing diverse ethical perspectives to engage in a fruitful and intimate exchange as one of the main causes of engineering’s undisputed governmental ambition.