Introduction
Dans cet essai, nous discuterons de la convergence du numérique vers les téléphones intelligents. Nous commencerons par présenter cette technologie, puis nous expliquerons les liens entre celle-ci et le monde des communications publiques. Par la suite, nous critiquerons la situation avec le regard du public. Nous conclurons ce document en nous questionnant sur ce que [...]

1. Nodar Kumaritashvili crash at the Vancouver’s Olympics.

A horrific crash during training for the Olympic luge competition, which is scheduled to begin Saturday, killed Georgian athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili.
The 21-year-old was thrown from the track and smashed his head on a metal pole at the Whistler Olympic Park.
Officials immediately closed the controversial track, which is known [...]

Qu’est-ce que le déterminisme technologique?
Le déterminisme technologique (DT) est une théorie sociale réductionniste. Le réductionnisme étudie les systèmes complexes en les réduisant à des éléments simples et à leurs interactions, dans le cas présent la technologie et son influence. Il  considère la technologie comme moteur principal du développement de la structure sociale et des valeurs [...]

Being a french quebecer today’s the first time that i read about Black Friday, the “SHOPPING SPREE TIME” call so popular in America. Coverage of the event in incredible, just look at sites like blackfriday.info, it has a 3-days lifetime each year! That’s specialization at its best. This “holiday” presence in Canada so far seems [...]

The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don’t we talk about it more?

The consensus Year of Revolution for most of our lifetimes has been 1968, with its political assassinations, its Parisian protests, and a youth-culture rebellion that the baby boomers [...]

By John Hasnas,

Political analysts frequently consider what it means to be a libertarian. In fact, in 1997, Charles Murray published a short book entitled “What It Means to Be a Libertarian” that does an excellent job of presenting the core principles of libertarian political philosophy. But almost no one ever discusses [...]

Web technology is poised to shake universities, the way it rocked newspapers and the music industry—with convenient, cheaper alternatives.

“The economics of traditional schooling are so out of whack that there is an opening for new players,” says Fred Fransen, executive director of the Center for Excellence in Higher Education, which helps donors more effectively give [...]

When we thought about education, we used to think about a building, some brick and mortar place where we went to sit on a bench and acquire stuff from 9AM to 4PM. Some DIYers used to go to the library to do it on the side, and that was pretty much the end of the [...]