Archive - Archive for the month of July, 2009

Apollo 11 Moon Walk, a giant leap for Mankind

Monday, 20 July, 2009

This is not a regular column and thus doesn’t follow the one published yesterday. Its purpose is to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Mankind’s first footstep on the Moon and inspire all generations to follow in kind. I will always remember where I stood at 10H56 PM EDT on July 20 1969. Only 18 at […]

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Origins of the computer, the analog calculator

Sunday, 19 July, 2009

Absorbed by my next book, Consommation et technologie (Consumption and Technology), due out this fall (in French only for now), by my daily microblog on Twitter and by other publishing activities, amongst which an article titled « Le luxe de 1950 à 2020 : une nouvelle géoéconomie des acteurs » (Luxury from 1950 to 2020: a new geo-economics […]

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