The future is digital, but in several cases beautifully explored by the English TV series Black Mirror, just how digital do we want to be? The show portrays, to a conceivable extreme, the online social tendencies of today’s society. Two…
Streaming media align pieces of information, one after another, without seeking to establish, most of the time, any relations between them all. And as a matter of fact, at first sight, there is no relation between the spectacular blockchain development,…
Artists feed themselves at all times on technological innovations; sometimes these are determinant and disrupt art. Especially when they come at the right time, like the apparently modest development in 1841, by the American painter John Goff Rand, of the…
Some recent events should remind to each person in good faith the absurdity of antijudaism and antisilamism nd their derivatives, anti-Zionism and hostility to the creation of a Palestinian State. They could even show that our civilisations’ future will play…
As many people, I can’t accept to see piddling anecdotes be treated with major subjects in the media and social networks without any hierarchy of importance. This isn’t a new phenomenon, but it’s accelerating. Major progress is made every day…
Under the pretext of a praiseworthy search for social justice, debates over taxation in France all too often mask a tendency, so peculiar to our country, which leads many people to want to punish those of their neighbors who get…
Being optimistic does not mean problems do not exist, rather it is the belief that problems have a solution. Thus, for most of the challenges that the world is currently facing. All or most of them are immense. Solutions can…
It is not an unknown fact. Representatives of the people were chosen by drawing lots in the past: the ancient Athenians resorted to sortition, in the 5th century BC; it was also the case in Venice, for centuries, for electing…
A very recent publication of a study by researchers from New York University and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai from the same city published the results of an experiment in which rats were able to retrieve memories for…
