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To Marie, Julie, Louise and Claire, To Emil and Léonard, children of the 21st Century
Series EditorGilles Pijaudier-Cabot
Numerical Simulation, An Art of Prediction 2
Examples
Jean-François Sigrist
First published 2020 in Great Britain and the United States by ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
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Foreword
Forms of Citizen Knowledge
For a long time, technology has served as a reference point in order to legitimize the notion of progress. Now, it is often seen as a deterrent. Technophiles and technophobes thus confront each other around the meaning to be given to technology in a sometimes dubious battle.
Rather than imposing on technology a symmetrically inverse role as a sign of history or a sign of despair, it would undoubtedly be more beneficial for everyone to understand that technology does not exist in itself, that it is a political choice and deserves to be collectively