Sublime

Perhaps the greatest “phase transition” in our thinking that such an approach could engender is the maturation in our willingness to live with relatively high levels of uncertainty in the domains of complex phenomena—and thus give up on ideas like complete “cures,” the elimination of “risk,” the design of perfect “stability,” and achieving total “s

• Don’t wait to be told to do something; figure it out for yourself


• Challenge everything, and steel yourself for the inevitable cynicism, opposition, rumors, false reporting, innuendos, and slander


• Break the ru

Pour entrer dans le XXIe siècle, l’État doit redevenir humble, ouvert, flexible, humaniste, réduit à ses fonctions régaliennes et géostratégiques. Un État-coach, qui inspire et encadre l’innovation. Un État-manageur moderne, qui accompagne la vie économique, sans prétendre à la régenter.

Je crains un homme mis à la forme d’un outil, d’une fonction ; c’est pourtant ce qu’une certaine lecture de la neuroergonomie, du transhumanisme3 ou de l’homme augmenté semble nous recommander aujourd’hui.

One of the greatest programmers in history, who did indeed understand every component of the computer from the software down to the chip, Niklaus Wirth, wrote “the belief that complex systems require armies of designers and programmers is wrong. A system that is not understood in its entirety, or at least to a significant degree of detail