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Apr 22, 2020

Est-on vraiment sourd aux appels de nos scientifiques ?

Au micro de Camille Crosnier, deux questions posées par Aurélien Barrau nous ont interpellées. « Globalement on écoute les médecins. Pourquoi n’écoute-t-on pas les climatologues et les biologistes face à la méta-crise écologique qui se profile ?»

Nov 21, 2018

Low-tech starts by questioning what we think we need

Low-tech is often presented as a counter-model to high-tech. Simpler technologies, fewer resources, more resilience: a way to reconcile innovation with ecological constraints. This suggests that the problem lies in the level of technology itself. As if the question were simply to choose between more or less sophisticated systems. It is not.

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Apr 24, 2018

Autonomous vehicles are not a technical problem

Autonomous vehicles are currently presented as one of the most promising technological breakthroughs in mobility. Safer roads, fewer emissions, better access to transport, more efficient systems: the list of expected benefits is long, and by now familiar. These promises are not just speculative. They are already structuring industrial strategies and public policies.

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Feb 20, 2017

Social entrepreneurship is missing where technology is built

How many social enterprises are born in laboratories? How many social enterprises are technology leaders? And why is it crucial to ask these questions nowadays?

Apr 20, 2016

What technological choices are needed for a sustainable societal model?

The question seems both urgent and necessary. Yet it is poorly framed. It assumes that we can choose our technologies based on their contribution to sustainability. In reality, however, that is not what we do.

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