It's a fact: we are bang in the middle of the Anthropocene. We have changed the destiny of our planet and its ecosystems, to the point that human actions have become as powerful as that of plate tectonics or ice ages. All this we owe to two essential elements: human stupidity, and technology. Human stupidity is a constant throughout history, but without the help of technology, we could never have, over the centuries, managed to do such an extraordinary thing as cram the Earth's atmosphere full of chemicals. But somehow, technology is also a constant in our lives. It is by using tools that we gradually distinguished ourselves from monkeys. Today, phones are at the heart of our social life, computers our main work tools, and biotechnology (such as pacemakers) literally have the power of life and death over us. The more complex society becomes, the more that technological tools intimately mix with socio-political, economic and cultural dynamics.

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