2022 opens, for the umpteenth time, with news dizzying coming from China. But this is not a new virus or some other terrifying variant of Covid. In some ways it is something more shocking, or rather, something that affects the history of man in a decisive way. Something that poses such complex and profound questions about “who we are” (as human beings) that it can only produce two opposite reactions among them: the dry and indignant refusal or the not uncritical but constructive reflection. The news is as follows: a magistrate was created in China robot. The public prosecutor in...