The Informatization Age (1) Automation
The Informatization Age that began in the 1940s is constantly changing in appearance but remains a worldwide endeavor towards automation.
Information, information theory, information entropy…
The Informatization Age that began in the 1940s is constantly changing in appearance but remains a worldwide endeavor towards automation.
A “digital divide” has accompanied the rise of digital technology since the 1990s. Outline of a problematical concept.
The image unveiled to the world in 2019 once again validates Einstein’s theory and wonderfully illustrates the awesome power of mathematics.
Here comes the “Metaverse”, the occasion for a posthumous intellectual contact with the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler.
Addictions, fake news, breaches of privacy … Can the “ethical” offer of digital professionals remedy these drifts?
Researchers in information science seek to grasp the concept of “individual”. Decryption of their usual methods…
The technological regime produces this “computationalist” doxa which considers the brain as a Center for information processing. Really?
Gilbert Simondon, reread 40 years later by digital thinkers, is praised as the “first philosopher of information”. What to think of this “sacrament”?
Alexa, Siri, Uber, Tinder, TripAdvisor, Waze… The multiplication of “Moral Machines”, as the sociologist Dominique Cardon used to say, has only just begun!
The philosopher Luciano Floridi proposes an “information ethics” supposed to lead us in a world transformed by the digital revolution.