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I’m going to give you links that are not stung by the chafer. I consult them several times a week to keep abreast of what is happening. We will start with the French part and then English and for each part, I make you a top 3 of my favorite sources.

Because already it will belong in Tabarnak this article but if in addition, I put all the sites of the Earth will be 10 kilometers long. You will run away in a lightning sprint and that’s not the goal. All sites that I will talk to you are feeder by great developers permanently (I’m talking about you there) which makes them essential sources and very high quality.
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Human Coders is a box that offers training in development in general. They also have a party dedicated to articles and the day before. The articles are proposed by the people of Internets. So the links of hell are filtered by a moderator before publication. Which means that we have serious things practically every day and on almost every possible subject. I feel that there is some kind of live ranking based on the number of clicks and the time since the article was published. I say that a little picometer but it decides what you see first on the site.

If you like it, hacker, all the way, the hacker’s journal is really for you. It’s a great slogan that I just invent they should put it on the homepage so it’s beautiful. It’s a little in the same style as Human Coder except that the links are not filtered by a moderator. The same we are on the Internet and suddenly it leaves the door open to all windows if there are no filters. The trick of this site is that only registered people can post.

To register you must be invited by someone already registered. It’s a private club what. I’m not going to lie to you, I’m completely part of the club. Who wants an invite? In any case, this system guarantees a certain quality of content. After I think that if there are comedians who have fun to post shit there must be a mod that will come out of his cave Game of Throne mode to cut the heads that exceed.

Developpez.com is the dinosaur of devs sites and it is also where you will find more information and different sources on the subject. It is as varied as it is complete and it is extremely complete. It goes from news to publications through folders and tutorials there’s something to read. And to my astonishment, there’s even a humor section. And yes we crack the pear in the club developers.

I would say that we laughed loudly between IT professionals! So I obviously spent a lot of time in this part of the humor. I wanted to compare with my expertise in-jokes. My verdict is that everything did not make me laugh, but it’s still good we love the touch of humor!

Technology watch is a matter of life and death. Do you know that if you do not stay up to date you’re screwed? In any case, there are many painful people like me who repeat it to you constantly. By cons it takes time and especially it’s a little hidden. So you do not know where to look on the huge global Internet.

You went left on the right but you do not want to waste your time. Luckily you have just come across the world’s most Wackerman blog. Today we will be interested in technology watch and especially we will see how not to bang your head on the walls by doing it.

The danger of hugging

Yeah, I’m putting Quebecois in the headlines right now. In any case before starting with technology watch, strictly speaking, I would like both to discuss why I’m talking to you today. The dev goes at a crazy speed. Honestly, it’s just anything there’s a new thing every two hours. And when you find yourself in a professional context and ask yourself the famous question: “But why did you do it like that your solution?” Is that generally there is a better solution that you do not know. And it hurts your huge ego developer.

Jean-Michel dev, your colleague, he knew that there was techno and/or a more appropriate way to do your business. Because he has made his technology watch and is proud to share his findings. Maybe he will not understand why you do not know the latest case that just came out. He’s going to look really weird and it’s going to be a big moment of discomfort for everybody.

He is painful but he is right. Even though it took him time and energy to do his watch. Because yes, it will ask you to make a small sacrifice in your time. But the important information is that it will make you earn much more in the medium / long term. In addition, to shine in society with your culture dev, you will know what is happening in your area and suddenly you will help yourself.

After your watch, when you will arrive in front of your keyboard to hack everything you will already be in the future. You will remember what you have read and some technical choices will be obvious to you. It will save you a lot of time. Your box to she will like that. She’ll almost end up believing you’re a rockstar. In short, all this is very nice but where do we find all this famous technology watch?

It is clear that technology is changing the way we live, work and thinks, but it is, in itself, insensitive to the human. Simple means in the service of ends that it obviously does not fix itself. See the robots: caring assistants or killer robots and other autonomous combat drones depending on how they are programmed and the goals they are intended for.

• Connecting people to each other via platforms makes them better? More open to others, more supportive? More intelligent?
• Does the reduction of inequalities lead to a trend increase in digitization? Is digital technology creating jobs and value for the most vulnerable, and can it facilitate their entry or retention in the labor market?
• Do the big players in Tech and Digital have a social responsibility in the service of the common good? Or are they just “pure players” of a game whose rule is the law of the strongest? At the end of May, on the eve of the VivaTech show, the “Tech for Good” summit was held at the Elysée, during which the digital giants made societal commitments, particularly in the area of ​​education and training. a large number to digital. Will sincere and durable? Announcement effects? How to “redeem” after scandals resounding like Cambridge Analytica?

That technology must be a source of progress made by and for man is a postulate that has been expressed since the beginning of the industrial revolution. Should the machine release Men or enslave them? Relieving their daily lives and improving their living and working conditions or, on the contrary, directing them and “reducing” them (instead of “increasing” them), as Chaplin, for example, brilliantly shows in Les Temps Modernes? An old question, then, but one of redoubled importance at the time of the digitalization of the world, the robotization of the economy and the worries that the AI ​​poses for the future of humanity.

The era of technology raises indeed many questions.

I do not believe in the fantasy of the great replacement of man by the machine. The real question is this: how do you ensure that the Tech responds to the common good, the sense of social well-being and economic prosperity? And one of the most crucial issues is to ensure that the preoccupying power of control of men that Tech allows does not prevail over its “liberating” promises, in the fields of education and knowledge, science and technology. medicine, etc.

To advocate for a technology that protects people is a burning necessity. In packing the word of Rabelais, one could say: “Digital without consciousness is only ruined of the soul”. A “humanistic” technology must also be at the service of equal opportunities, which is not intrinsically.

Digital technology must be supportive, that is to say, be profitable to the most fragile. An illustration of “inclusive” use of the technological tool: the Simplon network and its digital training program for refugees, which combines learning the French language with the teaching of computer programming in order to facilitate the integration of refugees in the digital professions.

In general, the human must have the last word and be at the heart of business transformation strategies. The example of cybersecurity, a very sharp subject that uses very complex technologies, illustrates this. In terms of cybersecurity, the company can control this issue only if trust, the culture of collaboration allow men to adopt the right reflexes to guard against the cyber threat.

The social role of the company, or its reasion detre, which is much talked about today, is in my view inseparable from a reflection on the social role of technology. And it is a primary responsibility of companies as users of technology products and services to make technology a tool for the well-being of the greatest number and the freedom of people.

And as the robotics specialist Laurence Devillers says: ” You have to know what you do and what you want to do, it’s not the machine that has to make choices for society, ‘Man who must decide what it will bring him. ‘ It’s up to us to make the right choices, for today and tomorrow.

Guarantee the utility
At Possible Future, we refuse to let ourselves live in a world where the technological innovations available to consumers are electric scooters and smartphones at € 1500. A world where engineering wonders in production techniques are used to create perfect spinning rotors for hours.

This scooter is connected.
Here is a useful technology! No mistake: I’m not trying to say that technology and science are no longer useful today. We live longer than ever, with the comfort of life unequaled in the history of humanity. We can communicate with our loved ones from the other side of the earth. Hundreds of millions of deaths are prevented by vaccines.
In our interpretation, a useful technology is:
technology that saves lives: to provide access to health facilities adapted to populations in developing areas; a technology that puts us in a more sustainable and livable world: removing plastic from the oceans, capturing CO2 to limit global warming;

technology that solves a real problem for a group of people, so “small” is it: allow color-blind people to discover the world in its true colors, dyslexic children to learn with appropriate tools, etc.

Our wish is that Crowdfunding supporters and the big VCs of this world are interested in Seabin (a trash that cleans the water of plastic and hydrocarbon waste ports) rather than investing 120 million in Juicero (a press- juice that a simple hand can replace ), for fear of missing out on the next nugget. Apple has managed to sell over a billion iPhones but we are still unable to properly sort our own waste: we must review our priorities.

If I joined Possible Future, it is because we are really thinking about projects in order to have a positive impact on our society. And this positive impact is often based on a technology used in a reasoned manner, in a promising business context.
We are committed to realizing innovation projects, where the integration of technology to a solution comes as a response to real use. This ensures that technology adds value without unnecessarily complicating the solution. Ideally, a guardian of science and the sworn enemy of the gadget!

If this posture is necessary, it is also to ensure the maximum acceptability of solutions, not to create gas plants. When we imagine a digital service for building artisans, we do not add a thousand layers of AI and personalization to look pretty.

We focus our efforts on the availability of the service, the effectiveness of the app and maximizing the time saved by users in order to evacuate their rubble and make the public road more passable for all. When using the blockchain-inspired by CryptoKitties (a priori unnecessary), it is to reinvent the gift experience and maintain the biodiversity of corals.

In this world saturated with gadgets, it is high time to reposition with ambition technology and science not as a way to stack features in everyday objects, but as a lever to make our objects more useful.

Or why the gadget should never take precedence over the useful
Do you know the second most supported Kickstarter project in the history of the crowdfunding site? It’s cooler.
But here we’re not talking about the cooler at the last family picnic, which has been dusting since 2007 or equipment for hangover kids, who decide to have a picnic at the last minute and find an old bakelite object in the cellar. We are talking about the Cooler Rolls, which we are not afraid to tag on Instagram because we know that our 124 followers will be in full FOMO.
We are talking about CON-NEC-TÉE cooler kids. Warning the eyes!

Meet the Coolest Cooler
The Coolest Cooler, the wonder of ingenuity according to its creators, has a multitude of accessories: blender, sound system, flashlight, cutting board, and integrated bottle opener. Increased cooler if there is one: it adds all-round functionality.

On the other hand, there is never any question of making the object more efficient in its primary mission, that is to keep food and drinks cool. Yet the project has federated nearly 63,000 people, raising over $ 13 million. The height of absurdity or saving failure, this cooler was never delivered to the people who supported the project. It’s cooling!
Useful technology at risk?
Have you ever typed “useful technology” on Google? The results are often lists of gadgets, that is to say, objects that are fun and new, but mostly futile. By taking a step back, I wonder: does this mean that when someone wants to know more about innovation, science, and progress, he only has access via Google to a simple list of gadgets?

It’s scary when you know that Google is the first filter of access to digital knowledge, for a large majority of the population. Indeed, Google Search is the medium used by almost 90% of the world population connected to the Internet to learn and find information.
Are we reducing science and progress today to trivialities?

At least he remains Quora …
It is true that technological innovations “fun” can have a significant educational aspect, since they can be used to familiarize consumers with new technologies, in a fun context. For example, Amazon has allowed the general public to become familiar with voice assistants, although overall Alexa remains for the moment little useful. I remain convinced, however, that they should only be a marginal part of new products. More effort should be focused on creating useful objects and not on projects with buzz potential.

I also think that these “not really useful” innovations should not have such a big presence in the media: by promoting the futile, bandwidth is reduced, and at the same time the scope, useful technological innovations.