This episode of Brave New World, on France Culture, explores the principle of slow tech. What does this approach to promoting digital sobriety consist of?
More and more technologies, more and more connected objects: faced with an “always more”, which is not without raising ecological questions, a counter-phenomenon has emerged. Slow tech proponents say there is an urgent need to slow down, and promote low tech — that is, less technology in our lives.
What is digital sobriety? Can it be a viable — and enviable — lifestyle for the future? A program in partnership with Numerama, available as a podcast on listening platforms — Deezer, Spotify, Apple — as well as on the France Culture website.
Digital sobriety, what does it consist of?
To decipher the slow tech approach, François Saltiel receives:
- Philippe Bihouixcentral engineer and author of The Age of Low Tech: Towards a Technically Sustainable Civilization (Ed. Threshold, 2014)
- Frederic Bordageindependent expert in responsible digital technology, founder of the GreenIT.fr collective and author of Strive for digital sobriety, I take action (Ed. Actes Sud, 2021)
- Marion Graefflyco-founder of Telecoop, the first cooperative operator with an ecological and solidarity vocation
At the end of the show, find the Numerama chronicle. In this show, we discuss Horizon Zero Dawn and Horizon Forbidden West : what if we needed to rethink the relationship between tech and nature?
