The pandemic has made technological objects an indispensable aspect of our daily lives. The power they give us creates a certain hubris that awakens in us the feeling of infantile omnipotence. From this starting point, the author calls upon two authors who develop two completely opposite positions on the virtual and its virtues. The first author speaks about contemporary anthropological mutation and sees in the cyberculture a process of hominization that enlightens the development of human history. The second sees in today’s communication society a serious threat to the living word.