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Back to the future: the rebirth of a classical approach to democracy and education in a post-modern society

Education – combined with technologies – seems to have triggered a sea-change in the contract between government and those who are governed.

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Theatrical release poster by Drew Struzan. Wikicommons. Some rights reserved.

Back to the future – the title of the blockbuster movie of the eighties captures a paradox of the technological revolution, which, with a magnitude similar to the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century – is transforming our models of production, consumption and the mechanisms through which we develop social contracts and take political decisions.