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
Tagged: society
Society, social systems
Ecce Homo Mathematicus
The fulfillment of all human tasks by “intelligent” machines is a myth difficult to demystify, but Homo Mathematicus could help us!
3 October 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
Following Julian Jaynes: comeback of the Bicameral Mind?
While the theories of “consciousness” are progressing, isn’t the human of the 21st century (re)engaged towards a form of “non-consciousness”?
21 August 2019
The Mirrors of the “I”
In 2001, philosopher Francisco Varela underwent a transplant and meditated on identity. Body, technique and identity: a very contemporary triptych.
28 April 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
Women and Mathematics: still a long way to go!
Why are there so few women in the higher reaches of mathematics? Review of this old and difficult question.
8 August 2018
Homo Amazonus
A brief history of the past, present and future of this new consumer discovered in 1994 by Jeff Bezos, founding boss of Amazon.com.
30 June 2018