Entretien avec Benjamin Piouffle, créateur de CaptainFact, une initiative citoyenne soutenue par OpenCollective Paris. — Pourrais-tu nous expliquer ce qu’est CaptainFact ? Il est d’abord important de parler du contexte dans lequel le projet s’ancre. Vous avez sûrement déjà remarqué, sur Internet les fausses informations sont beaucoup plus partagées que les démentis. Il y a plusieurs raisons. L’une d’elle, c’est que les outils sociaux d’aujourd’hui — comme Facebook ou Twitter — sont…

What does the future of warfare look like? What are some real-world AI applications? Can startups challenge legacy armaments providers? What will the People say about all of this? — Trends and Context: What’s going on? The face of war and state security is changing rapidly. Technological advancements are pushing the boundaries of what was once imaginable. As a result, governments around the world, and in particular the United States, are investing massively in the development these new technologies to warfare. This is nothing new however…

After startups and tech companies, it’s time for policy makers and legislators to learn about platforms and network effects. — While it has been two years since Platform Revolution came out, essentially an eternity in tech, many of the lessons distilled in it resonate truer than ever. So you may be wondering who should be reading this book and why? …

We don’t need rule-breaking tech founders anymore, and yet they don’t seem able or willing to change. Where do we go from here? — ‘This new faith has emerged from a bizarre fusion of the cultural bohemianism of San Francisco with the hi-tech industries of Silicon Valley. Promoted in magazines, books, TV programmes, websites, newsgroups and Net conferences, the Californian Ideology promiscuously combines the free-wheeling spirit of the hippies and the entrepreneurial zeal of…