ParisTech Review

Dear readers,

In a note published in April 2011 to celebrate ParisTech Review’s first anniversary, we were announcing you the launching of our iPad application. Six months later, we are happy to introduce it.

Available for free on the AppStore, our new app allows you to:
• Choose your language (English or French)
• Read the latest and the most popular articles
• Browse our content by authors or sections
• Adjust the size’s font inside an article
• Share articles by Email or on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Google Reader
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• Recommend the application to your networks
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As you may notice, we have paid special attention to the application design, in order to provide our readers an enjoyable graphical experience.

We would be happy to get your impression on matters such as design or bugs. You can post comments to this note or send us messages. Your feedback will be of great use for working on the next updates.

Please note that the design of our iPhone application has also been changed. By the end of 2011, our Android and Windows Phone applications will be updated as well, in order to benefit from the iPad graphical improvements.

We thank you for your support and look forward to hearing from you soon.

The Editors

Dear readers,

ParisTech Review has been online for a year.

We have an increasing number of readers and we would like to thank you for your interest. At this time, nearly 20,000 people subscribe to ParisTech Review through our monthly newsletter, smartphone applications (iPhone, Android, WP7), RSS feed, or the social networks (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn). In a few months, you will also be able to read our articles on your iPad or Kindle. In sum, ParisTech Review will be available on all your favorite reading devices.

ParisTech Review is mainly dedicated to analyzing the impact of technological innovations on the economy, business, society, and individuals, as well as major developments affecting demography, the climate, and natural resources. In recent months, we have addressed in particular the topics of energy (solar, nuclear, renewable, etc.), the impact of the Internet (on information, various sectors, management, etc.), crises, and speculative bubbles that mark the economy and society. We have also examined, among other things, education, agricultural issues, and climate change. We have sought to produce feature articles that are relevant over time thanks to our quality writers and editors including academics and researchers, business leaders, and journalists. In the coming months, we will offer you more new articles.

To further improve our articles and attract more readers, we need your help. We welcome your ideas and feedback on the content of the publication, usability of the Web site or its applications, and anything else. You can leave your comments at the bottom of this page or send us a private message.

We thank you for your support and look forward to hearing from you soon.

The editors

The ongoing technological revolution – the Internet, nanotechnologies, renewable energy, genetic engineering, among others – is affecting the world more radically and rapidly than any in history. At the same time major changes are taking place in demographics, the climate and natural resources. Feeding the world, poverty, globalization, pose problems that can only be solved by technological innovation. The world is changing fundamentally. This affects us all, in business, in our private lives, in our roles as citizens.

ParisTech Review assesses how these technological innovations and fundamental changes impact business, the economy, society, and individuals. Our contributors are visionary business leaders, experts, and researchers who specialize in these fields. Our difference: unconstrained, unbiased and rigorous analysis. Our goal: to stimulate non-ideological and non-political debates (save when we debunk these ideologies) and engage our readers.

ParisTech Review is only available on-line. All our articles are available in French and English. We will publish 10 new articles each month and inform our subscribers via an email newsletter.

Subscribing to ParisTech Review is free to allow us to reach the most people possible. We are funded by patrons. Our editorial committee ensures the quality and independence of all our articles.

ParisTech Review invites people around the world who are looking for independent analysis of the great evolutionary changes and technological innovations which are affecting their lives and their companies to subscribe – for free. Join in our debates by commenting on our articles and forwarding them to your friends and colleagues. (The articles on the website can be reproduced under the terms of the Creative Commons licensing agreement.)

We look forward to your comments on our magazine and our first articles. We invite you to explore our website and forward ParisTech Review to others around the world. The debate will be richer, the larger and more international our reach. Welcome to ParisTech Review: now it’s over to you.

The ParisTech Review Editorial Board

While the world changes, our institutions spend a significant amount of their resources preserving the status-quo and avoiding major structural modifications.

This conservatism is not simply due to a concern for their personnel: when a system has proven its worth over time, changing it drastically represents a leap into the unknown. We are not prepared to take such risks, unless forced to do so by competition and market forces, or we are in an unbearable situation and there is nothing to lose. Change then takes place amid violence and pain: this is revolution.

The purpose of our zero|base series is to take non-profit sectors of society and design new, optimal systems adapted to today’s world, taking advantage of all available technological innovations but deliberately ignoring existing structures and socio-political constraints. These articles do not attempt to propose new solutions to current problems: they are purely intellectual exercises. But, we believe, by developing ex-nihilo -on paper- rationally coherent, credible and sustainable systems, we can provoke new ideas and spur analytical debates.

Jean Salmona
Founder and Chairman of the Editorial Board of ParisTech Review