In his latest book, Les utopies du XXIe siècle (The Utopias of the 21st Century) Libero Zuppiroli makes an original presentation of what I call the excessive promises of innovation. I wrote recently a short chronicle about it in Enterprise Romande and Bernard Stiegler makes a much more pessimistic analysis in In the disruption – […]
Before talking about Sylvia Serfaty’s book, Équations Personnelles, I would like to mention two other scientists, Yves Meyer and Celia Pelluet. In this long video, Yves Meyer addresses the question of his vocation for the beauty and truth of mathematics from the moment 9 minutes 41 seconds. I’m going back to my childhood. My childhood […]
The startup world has been the core of my professional life for almost 30 years. I know it perhaps too well, and I also read almost everything I can get my hands on. So I feel compelled to read a book that takes this subject as its title. Marion Flécher is a lecturer in sociology […]
I write from time to time and perhaps even more often about this other fact of innovation and entrepreneurship (which remains my passion, positively), a face that is darker, more negative, a vision that is more critical of the impact of innovation on society. I read these days, in French, Technocritiques – Du refus des […]
My first post for 2012 is a translation of an interview I gave to French magazine La Recherche. It was published last December and you can have an electronic version of the French version here or a pdf document by clicking on the cover page below. It is followed by my own translation. Now I […]
“Our technocratic elite told us to expect an ever-wealthier future, and science hasn’t. Except for computers and the Internet, the idea that we’re experiencing rapid technological progress is a myth.” So speaks Peter Thiel in an interview to the Wall Street Journal Technology = Salvation that I read while traveling to Helsinki to discover the […]