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Going Apocalyptic. America was never a “democracy”. But we’ll miss it now that it’s gone.
Back in 2016, the whiff of aberration hung over Trump’s success. His opponents could claim that his victory was “some strange historical fluke”. They could put it down to foreign interference or to Russian hackers. But aberrations tend not to happen twice, and…
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My Latest Videos
An introduction to a documentary-in-progress. // Une introduction à un documentaire en-cours-de réalisation.
Contrairement à la presse française, qui selon beaucoup est en mauvais état, l’industrie de l’édition en France … comme aux États-Unis ou ailleurs … se porte plutôt bien. Les maisons d’édition sont en bonne santé. Et la France a une culture créative vivante qui permet aux jeunes pousses indépendantes de s’épanouir aux côtés des maisons traditionnelles. Dans cette vidéo d’introduction, nous ne donnons qu’un bref aperçu de l’une des maisons d’édition indépendantes, Les Arenes, qui est dirigée par l’éditeur Jean-Claude Guillebaud.
The 2019 Athens Democracy Forum was held on October 9-11 in Athens. It brought together senior New York Times journalists together with international business leaders, policy makers, academics and experts to discuss the state of democracy. It was varied, diverse. The Good, the Bad, the Ugly about democracy.
Digitization and digitalization are often used interchangeably, rightly or wrongly. Technically, digitization means the process of converting data or information into digital format. But the point here is basic: we are talking about using digital technologies to change a business model and provide new revenue and value-producing opportunities; it is the process of moving to a digital business. And there is no better place to learn about it than DIGITAL X, an event hosted and organized by Deutsche Telekom. Hagen Rickmann, Managing Director at Deutsche Telekom, puts all in perspective.
As sea pollution levels have dropped (no pleasure boats, no freighters, etc.), large numbers of dolphins have returned to the waters around Malta after being absent for years. The same thing is happening near my home in Crete. Please read my backstory: “Pandemics, dolphins, civilization and the rewriting of our imaginations.”