– DevTalks, june 2021: Working for a deep tech startup: Understanding their challenges and specificities – AI DevWorld 2020, october 2020: Blockchain Solutions Addressing AI and Edge Computing – Wyoming blockchain stampede 2020, september 2020: From the Cloud to the Edge: Blockchain, the essential layer for building hybrid IT infrastructures and creating new business models…
This short article presents the high possibility of isolated (or not) hospitals providing high end and low cost medical care. “Isolated” in the sense of law and jurisdiction. “Low cost” is the sense of reasonable price, at the opposite of multi-million dollar treatments. Let’s take a look at tax havens. Also called financial paradise, it…
High end wood pencils are delivered unsharpened in order to avoid breaking the point during transportation. So for the first use, you have to work on a wood stick and to shape it in order to obtain an efficient and valuable stationary tool. Tools you will need: – Your pencil – A well sharpened blade…
Here is the definition of Agriculture in Wikipedia: “Agriculture is the science and art of cultivating plants and livestock.” The focus is clearly result oriented. Or to be more accurate visible result oriented: plants and livestock. And this is where we need a deep shift. For that we need to have a better understanding of…
The Low Ego Society Project is a proposal, an answer and an ongoing project in echo to the place of humankind in a modern and connected world. Why this name? Ego is the common point in a lot of issues encountered by humankind. In managing the Ego we believe we will be able to thrives….
At April Insurance, a keynote, in french, introducing Blockchain and impacts on businesses: At the European Blockchain Observatory, I gave a keynote about Blockchain and AI convergence: At the BlendWebMix 2018, I gave a keynote, in french, introducing the impact on decentralized technologies on socities:
Beginning of 2019, UK government announced financing micro robot research to assist underground piping work. The goals are to decrease risks for human labor and to increase the efficiency of those types of infrastructure based projects. So when micro robotics and AI will allow micro robots to operate underground, uses cases will be endless. Those…
End of November 2018, I have been invited at the China Computing Federation Blockchain conference, to speak during the conference. I shared key observations on blockchain trends in the US and Europe and I presented forecasts for 2019. I moslt focusd in addressing scalability topics, competitors within the blockchain space and standardization. Being chairman of…
A couple of days ago I have been asked to think about charging infrastructures (CI) for electric vehicles (EV). Below you could download the presentation I gave. The key parts are : – faster and sooner than imagined, autonomous vehicles will be part of our daily life; – CI network should anticipate this trend; -…
Techno-societies are societies where technologies play a major influence. Today, without internet, a lot of our daily habits will disappear. The same in less modern countries using daily digital services like chat apps or international money transfer apps. Nevertheless, some people still have some issues in taking the train in order to understand these tech…
What is the point of spending billions in space exploration programs when there is so much to deal with on earth? Poverty, inequalities, over-consumption, climate change, industrial slavery, nuclear wars prevention… The list is longer but everyone gets the point. The question sounds very legitimate. Some will answer about expanding humankind’s knowledge, or about finding…
This short article is about underlying what I think is relevant to how Amazon is looking at consumption of goods. Being in a classic shop, we choose what we want to buy, then go to the cashier to pay for it. For Amazon Go, the action of choosing/ordering and paying is the the same step….
This article is not about God existence or non-existence. I grew up reading a lot of technical books and, like a lot of kids, I tried to understand Things with a big T: universe, creation… So at first when having religious courses, I asked a lot of questions. Then I felt my questions caused the…
A couple of years ago, I used to spend time biking with people who were riding horses. After a couple of minutes, if I was riding ahead, the horses would follow me on my bike as if I were a horse. One explanation for this behavior is not about the horses thinking I was one…
Imagine you are at home drinking a glass of soda and suddenly your glass falls off. So you go to the kitchen to use the brand new sponge you have just bought. Before using it, you take a look at the instructions. It says you should wet the sponge before the first use. So you…
One definition of survival instinct is to do things in a dangerous situation that will save us from dying. This is linked to the instinct of self-defense and self-preservation in dangerous situations. Now let’s take a look at our performances in sports. How often did we feel exhausted, but we still were able to continue?…
What if AI could solve political issues? In May 2017, France struggled in finding the right candidate for the presidential election. The opinions vary, but almost everyone seems to agree: there isn’t one candidate that suits everyone’s tastes and values. It’s a tough job to do as everyone’s tastes and values are a mix of…
Design and UX design face the issue of intuitiveness and knowledge. The intuitiveness is something done by intuition. Intuition depends on knowledge. So what comes as intuitive to a young Japanese girl could not be intuitive at all for a young American girl. But there are universal norms based on common knowledge that most people…
I am not here to advocate a specific diet because it is an entirely personal choice. I just would like to underline an evidence. What matters here is to understand how an omnivore eats and how a carnivore eats. Keeping it simple: an omnivore eats a lot of food categories, a carnivore eats mostly meat….
We live in a 3D world, but we still use paper and screen to learn. So our brain is used to analyze in 2D. Often, when someone wants to observe and analyze a motion, the horizontal point of view is chosen. This choice is simply the natural way for humans to see the world. The…
A couple of years ago, I was working in expert groups about urban standards. I tried to give some valuable inputs about how our cities should be designed in order to increase the autonomy of the disabled. When using a wheelchair, going outside to buy a sandwich or taking the subway to go to the…
The more we know someone, the higher are our expectations We want them to deeply understand our habits and our wishes. We would like them to react and be a little bit more like us. The same applies to robots: the more they will look like human beings, the higher will be our expectancies. This…
In math, the difference is 1 in both cases. But in life, the difference is infinite. The difference between thinking of doing something (but ending up not doing it) and doing it is infinite in the sense that it creates a momentum. The most difficult part is to initiate the momentum. When you are at…
VR is an amazing tool to be immerge in virtual experiences. The problem is that our brain is connected to our body which one will still provide real feedbacks. When our brain receives info from our eyes that differs from the one received from our body, we get sick. It is mostly an inner ear…
It’s not opinions that shape the world, it’s actions. A long time ago, I had a revelation while listening to a national radio station. The host, called Maurice, was kind of a controversial animator. He was a little too angry for my taste, but I liked the fact that he was direct and very frank….
The explanation of Tao is not Tao – Lao Tzeu La vérité est universelle et intemporelle. L’avis est un regard via un prisme personnel et intérieur. Il s’agit donc de l’interprétation intellectuelle d’un ou plusieurs individus et nous sommes ok avec cela. Le dangers vient lorsque que l’avis est exprimé comme la vérité. La vérité…