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Contrary to what we would like to believe, more digital technology, in order to manage living things, requires more relationships between people. Machines are not able to perceive the unexpected signals of society and the environment. They can nevertheless signal particular cases. It is up to man, and man alone, to treat particular cases with humanism and in a democratic spirit. This implies trusting a priori the men and women involved in “everyday life”, as well as having a great deal of confidence in the computer scientists who design and operate the software and databases.

If financiers were the operators of the development of the industrial era, computer scientists will be the actors of the coming era. But if this is the case, they must be sworn in, as are, in principle, the actors of finance. It is therefore urgent to create a council of the order of computer scientists.

This idea has been around since the 1970s, but has never been implemented. In particular, the digital branch of SYNTEC is not involved. This institution is traditionally chaired by the head of a large French IT services company, but the majority of its board members are representatives of the American digital industry.

Successive governments have never spoken out on this subject, nor has parliament, which does not seem to see the issues at stake.

Thus, to answer Solzhenitsyn, it is possible and even indispensable: we cannot get bogged down among humans.

It is no longer possible to be told, “I understand you, but I’m going to tell you why I can’t do anything for you and that the steps you need to take are going to be long, expensive and uncertain.”

Banning this kind of talk is the electoral program that European citizens want to hear. We can do this with a lot of technological sovereignty. In this way, we will develop a “responsible democracy”.

By responsible democracy, we mean a network of locally committed citizens who, according to their commitment, intervene at more global levels and whose mandates do not last forever.