Nina Zivancevic: Is there a possibility to train new generations to think, to develop their own modes of thinking independent from virtual categories?
Jean Baudrillard: I don't think there is any hope at all. If you think about the education the way it was some time ago, it had some value system, and with virtual reality there is no value system, there is no problem of freedom any longer-- that used to be an important problem-- but now we do not have it at all, so we have rather the disappearance of the term of the problem as such. And this is the final solution, which has quite a big and mortal resonance. But, I always keep the idea of revesability of things, that something can be changed and I spoke about it when I was discussing seduction and obscenity, but this all brings now a certain negative aspect to things…I would rather here remember Heidegger's question which he asked: if we were to go to the boundary of technology , to the very end of technology , should we find there a constellation of secrets? So, let us hope to find this positive answer in there, as there is a possibility of a vision which is optimistic in all this. If there are computers, artificial intelligence next to us, if the machines are doing things for us, then it can also happen that we remain alone with thought as such, that is, if there is still a hope that some thinking remains with us, then this thinking will be radicalized and in that - and the notion of game as a form of chance enters here--I see a real chance for existence of thought as such, an extreme, radical thought. But, watch out-- there is a fat chance that thinking does not remain with us altogether, and that is a problem, like it is with every form of cloning-- there is a possibility that a man as species disappears.
