Vint Cerf, the « Internet’s father », just caused a scandal by recalling, with hard-hitting words, the consequences of the dictatorship of transparency, given some of the current trends in the new social networking platforms. For him, the right to privacy may eventually prove to be a parenthesis in human history…
When a holiday takes hold in the national landscape, no one can imagine that it could disappear one day from the calendar. This is obviously the case in particular for The Fourteenth of July, an occasion for fun, patriotism and celebration for more than two centuries,…
Print media today is not too dissimilar to the way it was 70 years ago. In some way, it is doing even much better: there are far more newspapers and readers in the world…
Gerard Depardieu is my friend. It has been so for over twenty-five years. And he will always be my friend. No matter what he says, or what he does. This is my idea of friendship: irreversible, it cannot be bargained over…
It is a magical place, East of Myanmar (formerly Burma), 700 kilometers (434 miles) north of Yangon (formerly Rangoon) in the Shan mountains, close to China and Laos: Inle Lake. Its rescue is urgent, and it symbolizes the rescue of our planet.
Men obviously do not like prisons; or anything that can limit their lives. They do not like boundaries or constraints imposed on them by the brevity of their lives, or those imposed on them by physics. So, all the human adventure is made of escape attempts: thus, man lives longer and longer, knows the entire globe, learned how to fly, and explores the universe.
