Un blog intergénérationnel / an inter-generational blog. Auteur(e) invité(e)s ; actualité ; tendances globales ; évolutions sociales ; affaires internationales. / Guest authors; current affairs; global trends; social change; international topics.
Man findet die deutsche und englische Versionen weiter unten. You will find the German and English versions below the French version. « Dover and out! 1 », un cas d'amnésie par Roland Stalder, Jean-Jacques Subrenat, Daniel Marthaler * 18 mai 2017 Le 29...
Lire la suiteMan findet die deutsche und englische Versionen weiter unten. You will find the German and English versions below the French version. « Dover and out » 1 oder der Verlust des Gedächtnisses von Roland Stalder, Jean-Jacques Subrenat, Daniel Marthaler *...
Lire la suiteMan findet die deutsche und englische Versionen weiter unten. You will find the German and English versions below the French version. Donald Trump aurait-il raison ? par Roland Stalder, Jean-Jacques Subrenat, Daniel Marthaler 1 15 mai 2017 Au cours de...
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Ten years ago, in the Autumn of 2006, I wrote an article on the Finnish School of Watchmaking, then located in Tapiola. Readers recently pointed out that the old link to that article no longer resolves. Apparently the article was taken down from its initial...
Lire la suiteThe global Internet community is abuzz these days. On 14th September 2016, a hearing was held in the US Senate, where Senator Ted Cruz, perhaps with his sights on 2020, defended the view that the transfer ("transition") of oversight of the IANA Functions...
Lire la suiteLondres, septembre 2014. Après une visite à la National Gallery, j’ai pris ce cliché en quittant l’imposant bâtiment qui donne sur Trafalgar Square (cliquez sur la photo pour l’agrandir). Pour laisser un commentaire, merci d’utiliser la boîte "Laissez...
Lire la suiteAoût 2014. A Palo Alto en Californie, près du campus de l'Université Stanford, il y a un vaste centre commercial "Stanford Shopping Centre" avec d'agréables espaces en plein air, où les passants s’installent le temps d’une consommation. Cliquez sur la...
Lire la suiteSo far, the debate on mass surveillance has dwelt on the immense resources made available to the agencies (NSA in the US, GCHQ in the UK), on the technological advantage that enables them to access any data and bypass encryption, and on the lack of proper...
Lire la suite"The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power" W. Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar" When the scale of global surveillance carried out by the NSA (USA) and by the GCHQ (UK) was exposed by Edward Snowden through The Guardian, people around the...
Lire la suiteBuilt for the most part during the Cold War, surveillance systems on a global scale were considered a vital necessity with the onset of nuclear weapons, if only to keep Mutually Assured Destruction at bay. Today, these systems are also used for domestic...
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