17 November 2014
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Drones and Mobiles
Once again, two seemingly unrelated events tell us a lot about the evolution of our society…
Once again, two seemingly unrelated events tell us a lot about the evolution of our society…
As always, it is in the encounter of two apparently unrelated areas that the new is found…
As we follow the French political debate, the country seems to be in a desperate situation…
As everybody knows, the French Parliament has too many civil servants and not enough private-sector workers…
The tide of the battle that is being played out for nearly two centuries between the economy and politics, between market forces and democracy, between capitalism and the state, is now turning in favor of the market, because it is global, to the detriment of democracy, locked within borders…
In this troubled world, the 20th FIFA World Cup final tournament could make some forget the massacres (in Iraq, in Syria, in Afghanistan and in Ukraine), unemployment, (in France and many other countries around the world), hunger (with more than one billion men, women and children going to bed hungry), the climate crisis happening around the world, and the loss of the meaning of life for nearly all human beings…
Throughout most of the world’s economies, today, housing is one of the major determinants of growth…
Microsoft has just announced that its researchers have developed, after a decade of work, with the help of Microsoft’s Skype and Translator team, speech recognition software that can decode languages in real-time, called Skype Translator…
It is not my intention in any way here to try to convince all those with nostalgia for collaborationism, all the unrepentant anti-Semites, all those who say they are anti-Muslim, and all those who cannot bear to come across a black or yellow person in a hospital or maternity home, not to vote for the National Front (FN)…
