Etienne Klein

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

"It's time to take time to think about science..." thus began the conference of the 3rd year of the Closing Lesson of the France Culture Forum which took place in February 2015 at the Grand Amphitheatre of the Sorbonne in Paris. This conference "The year as seen by science",