Étienne Klein

For the physicist-philosopher Etienne Klein, confinement upsets our conception of space-time. It is true that the time of physics does not change: one minute always lasts sixty seconds, but it is our perception of time that changes in this confined space where everything becomes softer, without rhythm, a time

In a new report, the Academy of Technology has looked at the perception of the risks involved in any innovation. Taking note of the controversies that certain applications of science or certain technological innovations raise, this text raises the political question of the city's project, its aims: what do we want to do?

The idea of progress is doubly consoling. First, it is a consoling idea because, by underpinning the hope of a future improvement in our living conditions, by making a desirable utopia glimmer far down the timeline, it makes history humanly bearable. It is also consoling in that it gives a