The Digital Monk We are witnessing the digitalization of professions. Not so long ago, it would have been inconceivable to take yoga classes online, or to follow an entire university course at a distance via the possibilities offered by the Internet. Beyond this phenomenon, there is of course a disappearance of professions that were previously thought to be safe. For…
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Artificial intelligence challenges human or so-called natural intelligence. Civilization is built on the very idea of intelligence: what we have been able to build over the centuries has been the continuity of the transmission of intelligence through language, whether oral or written, from generation to generation. Anthropocentrism (the idea that the world somehow revolves around man) is partly justified by…
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Those who lived during the Belle Époque didn’t know it at the time. It was only in retrospect that this period was considered as such, since it was framed between 2 wars, that of 1870 and that of 1914. In the end, the term is more an expression of nostalgia for the good old days, when the madness and misery…
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Until very recently, white-collar workers had always felt safe. They didn’t mind seeing millions of jobs outsourced or replaced by machines. The office professions had no use for workers, many of whom they saw as proletarians. AI is reversing the mechanisms of proletarianization. White-collar workers are going to lose their jobs en masse far more quickly than blue-collar workers, and…
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Stupidity often goes hand in hand with laziness. You. People who have a fixed opinion on many subjects without having studied the matter are generally what you might call imbeciles. Thinking Requires Effort, Which Is Why Most People Don’t Think. It’s easier to adopt the preconceived thoughts of others than to resolve to do one’s own investigation. It’s tempting to…
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This is the question on every parent’s mind. How do you educate your children in such a way that they are protected from the dangers of the outside world, while not being ignorant of its realities? There’s undoubtedly a happy medium to be found. You can’t leave your children in a bubble impervious to the outside world so that they…
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More and more human interaction takes place through a medium, a screen, a fortiori an app: chatting with a friend, looking for a job, finding a soulmate, taking a course, giving a lecture, what have you? Everything we are as humans – that is, interacting with other humans – has been confiscated by intermediation tools on the pretext that they…
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We are a civilization of information, data and knowledge, but what about wisdom? Wisdom is knowledge to which reflection and application have been applied. The Current Context Allows For Less Wisdom When we spend our day in front of a screen, we have less opportunity to apply what we learn to the real world. On the other hand, our attention…
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The world has never been so alone. People in so-called “developed” countries live in boxes and spend most of their time in front of screens to forget their loneliness. Loneliness is an evil that is eating away at society, yet it is also a tremendous opportunity for companies that have decided to monetize it. Your Solitude Has A Market Value…
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There are 2 levels of trust: there’s trust based on nothingness, narcissism and ignorance, and there’s trust based on true knowledge expressed through action. Beware Of Ignorant Trust By definition, when you’re ignorant yourself, you can interpret people’s confidence as the mark of a profound knowledge of things and of life in general. We can therefore be fooled by appearances.…
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