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It’s beautiful, it’s tall, it looks solid, it looks like steel. But the tower is made of puddled iron. A material that breaks easily when subjected to stress perpendicular to its fibers. The package should read “Caution fragile democracy, should be carried by several people, not for the faint-hearted”. In recent weeks, the early and,…
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I had the chance to visit the Ouest-France newspaper’s printing plant and editorial office. In front of this beautiful industrial facility, we talked about technology, but also, and above all, journalism. In the printing plant, the paper unrolls like a ribbon between the presses. It runs so fast that the eye can’t follow it. Suddenly,…
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Do you know Maillols, the architect ? He left his mark on my neighborhood in Rennes. The Bourg-L’Evêque district, just west of the city center. His signature buildings stretch for less than a kilometer. This neighborhood was a suburb of the ancient city of Rennes. A poor, unhealthy suburb. So when the city had to…
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Many of us are wondering what we can do to bring about changes in our society to fight and adapt to the environmental changes underway. Personally, I think there’s something to be said for putting more sensibility into our lives. Who hasn’t felt like a brain for a whole day : plugged into a computer…
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I feel caught in a great net. An invisible net. A net that surrounds us all and prevents us from thinking freely. We can’t see it, but its shadow clouds our minds. This net is sexism, ordinary sexism. Men and women alike, we all grow up with stereotypes. They are inoculated into us by our…
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A friend recently asked me what the martial arts bring me most. I think that, speaking of aikido, what regular practice brings me most is connection with others. This may seem paradoxical from the outside, since, as in many other martial arts, what we observe is a strike, an attack and a defense, immobilization or…
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As 2023 draws to a close, I’d like to share with you the childlike joy I had watching the cranes on the Notre-Dame reconstruction site. They rise so high. They look so light from the ground. They seem to want to touch the monument with their fingertips, so as not to disrespect it. The cathedral…
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When I look at a commercial port, … I put on my sailor’s glasses and … imagine the relief at the bottom of the water. I ask myself where the tide is and whether the ships are light or full. I measure the mass of water filling the basin. I wonder which dock is deep…
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Last week was All Saints’ Day. You wouldn’t think so, at the rate we live, the rate we learn, the rate we work. I hope you were able to take a break. I’m thinking of you who’s no longer here. I think of you who suffer from his or her absence. Please take care of…
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Am I afraid that creative AI might make my job disappear ? Yes and no, actually. Yes, because the number of customers who will turn to AIs for their ease of use will grow, and we can therefore fear that the market for “human” illustration will shrink. Many of these customers already don’t use an…