Technologies

eSanté et Intelligence Artificielle. Entre promesse du meilleur et crainte du pire, de Patrice Cristofini & Raymond Taube – Editions Maïa, mars 2021 L’avenir n’est jamais tel qu’on le prédit. Une certitude néanmoins : les technologies évoluent à une vitesse exponentielle. Fascinant et inquiétant, quand on songe à ce qu’était

Star Trek Science ou fiction ?, d’Ethan Siegel – Edition De Boeck supérieur, octobre 2020 – 216 pages La grande saga de Star Trek depuis 1966 : 13 films, 759 épisodes séries, des web series, des jeux vidéo, des romans… et voici enfin un magnifique « beau livre » qui

Technopouvoir - Dépolitiser pour mieux régner, by Diana Filippova - Edition Les Liens qui libèrent (LLL), November 2019 - 224 Pages This is an autopsy of technical confinement. Diana Filippova was not born yesterday. "Everything is political. Everything is propaganda," insists the HEC and

La civilisation des nanoproduits, by Jean-Jacques Perrier Edition Belin, September 13, 2017 - 224 Pages The growing commercialization of products containing nanomaterials or "nano-objects" is of concern to us all in a more or less explicit way. The subject is picked up from time to time in the media, particularly with regard to

The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future, by Kevin Kelly Viking Edition - Reissue June 2017, 336 Pages (English) The latest book by Kevin Kelly, co-founding editor of Wired magazine in 1993, was reissued last June and is considered the best seller of the year.

Le temps des algorithmes, by Serge Abiteboul and Gilles Dowe Edition Le Pommier, January 19, 2017 For some time now, algorithms have been on all languages. And they worry. Professions are disappearing because of them, governments are using them to restrict our freedoms, private companies are using them in their

Do robots make love? Le tanshumanisme en 12 questions de Jean-Michel Besnier et Laurent Alexandre - Edition Dunod, 12 octobre 2016 - 144 Pages Transhumanism is an international technical-scientific movement that claims to infinitely increase the physical and mental performance of the human being. Today you can already

Vivre avec les robots - Essai sur l'empathie artificielle de Luisa Damiano et Paul Dumouchel - Editions du Seuil - Février 2016 A social robot is an autonomous robot capable of changing its own programming by learning and designed to function within socialized environments, i.e. shaped environments,

Nanomaterials and risks to health and the environment - Soyons Vigilants ! by the Association AVICENN - Editions Yves Michel - February 2016 Nanomaterials are omnipresent in our daily lives. How can we identify them and what are their risks? Table salt, ready meals, toothpaste, sun cream, tires, household appliances,