Vers un numérique responsable. Repensons notre

14 × 19 cm 224 pages softback january 2021 retail price: 20.50 €

Vincent Courboulay is an it engineer and lecturer at La Rochelle University. For the last ten years, he has specialized in digital responsibility. In 2018 he founded the Digital Responsibility Institute and became its scientific director. He is currently working on the notion of responsible artificial intelligence.

Repensons notre dépendance aux technologies digitales

TOWARD DIGITAL SOBRIETY

Rethinking our dependency on digital technologies

Vincent Courboulay Preface by Jacques-François Marchandise

Over the past fifty years, the digital revolution has enabled indisputable technological and social progress around the globe. But this progress has its flip-side. It has also turned a large part of humanity into data providers for the profit of a few; it has enabled masses to unite and protest; it has given a forum to people, a space for discovery; all the while operating under an advanced, and imminently doomed model of ultra-capitalism. Behind the image of its virtual world, the digital revolution has had very serious consequences on society and on the environment.

No sector of activity has had such a systematically negative effect on the planet throughout its existence, despite the belief that it has saved the world. Digital technology is neither right nor wrong, but it does have to find a correct place within society as an auxiliary enabling people to live better lives. Vincent Courbelay invites us to rethink our habits and to reflect on the way that digital phenomenon can be applied in a more sober fashion. The need to rethink our relationship with digital technology is crucial for the proper functioning of our democracy, society and our relationships to others.