Le Laboratoire is an innovative space founded by David Edwards in Paris. David Edwards is a young philanthropist, scientist, inventor, professor. He is the Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University. He is the distinguished author of "ArtScience" and inventor of innovative and affordable vaccine delivery systems. David Edwards, received last September the "Chevalier des Arts & Lettres" decoration from the French Ministry of Culture.
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Six weeks after the election of Sen. Barack Obama to the White House, Mr Louis Giscard d'Estaing, Député du Puy-de-Dôme for the UMP ruling party, Chairman of the France-USA Friendship Group at the Assemblée Nationale, has kindly accepted to host our members on December 16th.
Mr Giscard d'Estaing, who spent much time in America in the past as a business executive, was elected Député du Puy-de-Dôme in 2002 and re-elected in 2007, has also been the Mayor of Chamalières since 2005. As chairman of the France-USA Friendship Group of the Assemblée Nationale, he took part in the Democratic Party Convention in Denver last summer.
He will give us his views of the upcoming Administration and will appraise the future of France-US relations under President Obama in the context of the current global economic crisis.
Each day, the Internet and the World Wide Web change the world we live in, from how we shop to how we work. As with any new technology, there are both positive and negative results from its integration into our society. What are the limits and boundaries of the Internet? How pervasive is it in our lives? How much further does it have to go? Professor David Weinberger will share his academic views on these important matters.
Dr David Weinberger is a professor at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. He's the co-author of the The Cluetrain Manifesto, the bestseller that cut through the hype and told business what the Web was really about. His next book, Small Pieces Loosely Joined has been published to rave reviews hailing it as the first book to put the Internet in its deepest context. His latest book, Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, explains how the new rules for organizing ideas and information are transforming business and culture.
