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The point where to place the cursor in matters of investment and technoscientific research, between a return to practices of less technical intensity, resulting from a radically innovative technology because it will be more frugal, more resilient, or on the contrary, a radical acceleration consisting of doing even more of the same thing, increasing the intensity and technological dependence of our societies, is an essential question for the future. The first scenario implies a collective capacity to define that which we want to preserve, which cannot be reduced by technology, and to which we wish to confer value. “Impossible, as long as we confuse price and value in a market economy without ethical regulation other than individual behavior subjected to technological, economic and State domination,” says Paul Jorion (Giorgini 2018). The second scenario relies on an excessive confidence in technology to save the world, in other words, to solve more problems than it creates. “Impossible!” Ellul (2003) tells us. The recursive aspect of a life-saving technoscience pushed to the limits induces, in return, a standardization of human behaviors in the sense of conformity to the models mastered by technical development which then become essential, including to resolve its negative externalities. A general cut in telecommunication networks today would lead to millions of deaths, whereas it did not exist two centuries ago. But at the same time, they save lives that would not have been saved at that time (ambulance services and so on).