« Londres, première ville intelligente dans le top 10 mondial », « La transition énergétique jugée trop lente au Royaume-Uni », « L’été où les conservateurs britanniques ont rompu le consensus climatique », tels sont des exemples de titres récents que l’on peut lire dans la presse internationale au sujet du développement technologique londonien et de l’action
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Les Mardis de l’innovation organisent une conférence le 13 décembre 2022, dont le thème sera « Sobriété & Frugalité versus Science & Technologies : complémentarité et synergies ». En direct sur la chaîne YouTube Les Mardis de l’innovation. Un débat se développe actuellement sur l’efficacité relative et la priorité à accorder
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Après des décennies de foi inébranlable dans le progrès, il y a aujourd’hui dans les sociétés occidentales, une grave crise de confiance envers l’innovation technologique, associée à une tension « collapsologique ». Pourquoi le progrès technologique fulgurant s’associe-t-il à la crainte du futur ? Est-il encore adapté aux attentes de
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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
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Red Mirror : L’avenir s’écrit en Chine, de Simone Pieranni – C&F Editions, collection Société numérique, 10 février 2021 – Traduit de l’italien par Fausto Giudice, avec un cahier photo de Gilles Sabrié – 184 pages La Chine a longtemps été considérée comme « l’usine du monde » fabriquant pour
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Our time is devoted to new technologies; they occupy our daily lives, create our needs and have become indispensable to us. They promise us to cross all limits, even to the point of claiming to set back our death. Their credo has made us dream if not illusionary: "to change the world". One word
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Today, the United States is crumbling under the weight of two pandemics: coronavirus and police brutality. Both are causing physical and psychological violence. Both kill and disproportionately injure black and brown people. And both are driven by the technology that we are designing, redirecting...
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It was launched in 2017 in Saint-Malo. Destination: Northern Europe. Today, Energy Observer is taking up the challenge of becoming the first ship in the world to reach the Arctic thanks to renewable energies and hydrogen. A technological and civic challenge, a universal message to decision-makers
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In 2018, the European Commission has adopted a pragmatic approach to address the shortcomings of the technology giants. 2019 is likely to be the dawn of a " éthique technologique " where consumers expect their rights to be respected in the digital realm as they are in their daily lives. The
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Pour comprendre et analyser la perception des Français à l’égard des technologies et de leur place dans l’avenir, l’Académie des technologies (1) et OpinionWay ont réalisé un sondage qui nous apprend que les Français s’intéressent fortement à la technologie (79%) mais qu’en même temps elle les inquiète (38%) et ils
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Not a day goes by without mentioning Artificial Intelligence, the great evil or the great good of the century. A threat to humanity, a consubstantial engine of economic growth, a liberticidal monster, an exterminator of humanity or an omnipotent benefactor, designed to help us, to increase us but also to watch over us in order to perhaps subdue us or make us
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"China is poised to become a science and technology superpower," the Washington Post said following the release of the U.S. National Science Board (NSB) science and technology indicators in January 2018. These figures speak for themselves. In 2017, China surpassed for the
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At a time when digital technology is shaking up the world of healthcare, researchers, engineers and companies are working together in Nantes on joint projects to design concrete solutions resulting from digital developments. One of their projects, a thought-driven avatar, is creating real opportunities to improve the quality of life for patients.
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Food depletion, loss of biodiversity, pollution, energy crisis... While reports are accumulating about the negative consequences of the current production system, the economy of promises is in full swing. Growth and progress are merging, and the hope for technological solutions remains. Against all evidence? Tools for
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What if we mix creativity, imagination and critical thinking, leading to unexpected returns on the implications of smart technologies, such as AI, for example? Stereolux's Arts and Technologies Laboratory, a space dedicated to experimentation at the junction of digital arts, research and industry,
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La singularité du vivant, by Miguel Benasayag Edition Le Pommier - Collection Manifeste, 24 October 2017 - 224 Pages From the fields of digital and molecular biology, we are told that the differences between the living and the machine, between artificial intelligence and animal intelligence, between life and the living, between the living and the dead, between artificial intelligence and animal intelligence, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between artificial intelligence and animal intelligence, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between artificial intelligence and animal intelligence, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living, between the living and the living.
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Helping scientists map the sound environment with a new mobile application is now possible. All Android smartphone owners will soon be able to contribute to a research project, simply by recording the sounds around them. The goal? To establish a participative mapping of the sound environment. Illustration: Painting
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Comme chaque année, le Massassuchet Institute of Technology livre dans sa publication, MIT Technology Review, les dix innovations disruptives de l’année. Cette sélection est à regarder avec attention car, en général, le MIT a le nez fin. L’année dernière il avait cité CRISPR, la fusée réutilisable ou la voiture autonome
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Une startup américaine spécialisée en réalité augmentée, Daqri, vient de mettre au point une technologie d’impression 3D basée sur l’hologramme, dévoilée par la MIT Technology Review. Un laser vert brillant clignote, immergé dans une boîte de Pétri. De nulle part, la forme d’un trombone émerge-fantomatique d’abord, puis solide. Cinq
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How can we anticipate and measure the planet's water resources in order to adapt to the effects of global changes? This is one of the objectives of the future SWOT satellite, developed as part of a Franco-American collaboration launched nearly 10 years ago, which will revolutionize practices at 891 km
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