Tristan Harris and the Swamp of Digital Ethics
Addictions, fake news, breaches of privacy … Can the “ethical” offer of digital professionals remedy these drifts?
6 February 2021
Category: Mundus numericus
Man in his new digital environment
The « Individual » in the light of information theories
Researchers in information science seek to grasp the concept of “individual”. Decryption of their usual methods…
8 August 2020
Gilbert Simondon, « philosopher of information »?
Gilbert Simondon, reread 40 years later by digital thinkers, is praised as the “first philosopher of information”. What to think of this “sacrament”?
2 May 2020
Attachment to Simulacra
How close can one become to a digitized artefact? Not to the point, we think, of ever being able to fall “in love” with it.
11 April 2020
PageRank, Parcoursup and other Moral Machines
Alexa, Siri, Uber, Tinder, TripAdvisor, Waze… The multiplication of “Moral Machines”, as the sociologist Dominique Cardon used to say, has only just begun!
28 September 2019
The promises of quantum computing
Google, IBM, Microsoft … will soon announce “quantum supremacy”. What are the main challenges of this new IT paradigm?
21 July 2019
Companies: changes in the face of complexity
Immersed in an increasingly complex and technical environment, companies are undergoing radical changes. Several ways are possible…
18 May 2019
Emergence of a digital natural environment
5G, satellite constellations… The digital network is mutating into a digital environment and, at the same time, is becoming a major geopolitical issue for the 2020s.
9 March 2019
Fake news: legislate or educate?
A law was promulgated in France at the end of 2018 to respond to the inflation of “fake news”. What can be said today about this controversial subject?
16 February 2019
Adam Curtis and the strange world
Are we not locked in a static, “hypernormal” world? This is the strange proposition of British journalist Adam Curtis.
26 January 2019