Former research associate at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) in the field of biology and computer
graphics, he was successively Scientific Attaché to the French
Embassy
in the United States, and Scientific Director of European Enterprises
Development
Company (a venture capital group) from 1971 to 1975.
He is particularly interested in advanced technologies
and the applications
of system theory. On these subjects, he wrote : "Le Macroscope"
(1975),
"Les Chemins de la Vie" (The paths of life) (1983) and "Le Cerveau
Planétaire"
(The planetary brain) (1986). As well as several reports, namely :
"Biotechnologies
and Bio-Industry" (1979), an annex to the report "Sciences de la vie et
Société" by Professors Gros, Jacob and Royer. He was also
co-responsable for the report which led to the creation of CESTA
(Centre
d'Etudes des Systèmes et des Technologies Avancées /
Center
for the study of systems and advanced technologies, 1982).
He wrote for several years on new
technologies for the economic magazine
"L'Expansion". He speaks on the same subject for Europe1, a radio
network.
He is the author of several scientific books aimed at a large public,
such
as Les origines de la vie", (The origins of life) (1966); "La
malbouffe"
(the wrong food) (1979), "La Révolution Biologique", (the
biological
revolution) (1982) ; "Branchez-Vous" (Plug-in !), (1984), a book on
personal
computers ; "L'Aventure du Vivant" (The adventure of life) (1988) ;
"L'avenir
en direct" (Live from the future), (1989) ; "Les rendez-vous du Futur"
(Rendez-vous with the future) (1991) ; "L'Homme Symbiotique, regards
sur
le 3eme millénaire" (Symbiotic Man, a look into the third
millenium)
(1995). "La plus belle histoire du monde", (The most beautiful history
of the World) with Yves Coppens, Hubert Reeves and Dominique Simonnet,
Seuil,
1996. "Une vie en
plus" with Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber, François de Closets
and
Dominique Simonnet, Seuil 2005. "La
révolte du Pronétariat" with the collaboration of
Carlo Revelli,
Fayard, 2006. "2020 : Les
scénarios
du futur", Fayard, 2008.
In 1990 he was prize-winner of the Academie des Sciences
Award for scientific
communication.
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