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We vote for archetypes In principle, an election is based on the informed choice made by citizens based on a rational political program. However, in practice, only a minority of voters take the time to read the programs, and an even smaller minority remembers the content of the program only one year after the election… So, if it is not …
This article is partially based on the book HR Innovations, Dunod Employability is more important than GDP In your opinion, what is the key indicator that will definitely determine a country’s place in the world economy in 2025? Would you say it’s its GDP? Its industrial production? Its level of debt? For my part, I would say that it is …
When fiction becomes reality Robots have been in the deepest oceans, they’ve been to Mars, you know? They’ve been all these places, but they’re just now starting to come into your living room. Your living room is the final frontier for robots. Cynthia Breazeal As a teenager, I devoured Isaac Asimov’s science fiction novels that showed what the future might …
This article is the continuation of “What if Plato had created a startup? “. It examines seven simple proposals that would revolutionize our current political model through the marriage of collective intelligence and digital technology. 1. Vote for projects rather than for candidates The current political system forces voters to choose a candidate and the program he / she represents, …
The Internet has disrupted all sectors: communication, education, transport, distribution, finance … There is one, however, that has not yet been reinvented by Internet: politics. We still function today according to principles that were established more than two and a half millennia ago by philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, who first modeled the different systems of power within the …
We are not in the era of communication. Actually, we live in the age of separation and division. As I write these lines, I am in an anonymous apartment on the top of a large anonymous tower erected in the starless sky of the night. I look out the window: I see other buildings as far as the eye can …
Collective intelligence can be a fantastic lever to unleash creativity, generate commitment and increase the performance your company. Actually, collective intelligence is probably the only thing that can enable humanity to overcome the challenges it faces: social injustice, the return of fanaticism, ecological distress have become so great that no institution can claim to solve them anymore. Only a collective …
According to BVA-Gallup, the French have become one of the most unhappy people in the world. With a negative index of -79, France is the latest ranking of the 51 countries surveyed by the institute. This is a historical record, since no country has ever reached such a low score in the 34-years history of the index.[1] This figure is …
Do we truly enjoy freedom only when we are about to lose it? Everything goes as if our societies became incapable of understanding the importance of democratic values, except when a major crisis is about to deprive us of our rights. The terrorist attacks on Charlie Hebdo gives a good illustration of this. After the initial trauma, the weeks that …
We spend more than 50 hours a week watching television, surfing on the Internet and playing video games. Today, entertainment became the first activity of people in all industrialized countries. A synonym of entertainment is distraction, whose etymology means: diversion of attention. In other words, we spend most of our time to divert our mind of something. But what exactly? …
