The last work published by Olivier Babeau: “Le Nouveau Désordre Numérique. How digital is exploding inequalities ”(Buchet / Chastel, 2020).
Troubling 21st century.
The figure of great entrepreneurs replaced those of political leaders, discoverers and conquerors in the firmament of glory.
Probably because it contains them all.
These captains of the digital industry have amassed an incredible fortune, which they put at the service of ambitions that may seem crazy.
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Larry Page or Mark Zuckerberg propose to transgress the last three limits that humanity meets: that of our terrestrial cradle, that of our physical world and that of our human condition.
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