Svalbard : De las cosas que van a servirnos cuando llegue el fin del mundo

However much technology advances, and even though we may have the impression that the digital universe liberates us from the body and its needs, we remain rooted in matter, just as at the beginning of time. The 21st-century citizen, dazzled by scientific advances, has forgotten the magical dimension of life, the mythological perspective, and instinct; that extraordinary tool born from a predisposition to discovery and an attentive gaze, what Breton called "the secular sacred." This shift toward other interpretations of the reality that surrounds us, which was commonplace among our ancestors and which we have now lost, will be essential when the end of the world arrives. On that day, the last survivor, making his way through the darkness with his useless mobile phone, will reach the Svalbard vault, 1,300 kilometers from the North Pole, and will take a seed, that technological marvel whose circuits generate life. And like the first farmer, he will begin to sow the land, inaugurating, once again, the history of humanity.