Analysis to understand the present and imagine the future.
Each chronicle is an attempt to shed light on a defining question of our time. Through an independent and well-informed perspective, Ludovic Deblois explores the transformations underway and the paths that lie ahead.
“Anticipating the world to
come is already to care for it.”
On 1 November 2024, in an interview with the Financial Times, Francesco Milleri, CEO of EssilorLuxottica, ventured a prediction: smart glasses "will replace smartphones, just as streaming platforms replaced CDs"[1]. Since that prophecy, the market has changed scale: EssilorLuxottica claims…
The EU is a leading market on the world stage, yet it remains an area of heavy dependence for its raw materials, particularly strategic and critical ones. Aware of this risk, the European Commission had the Critical Raw Materials Act[1]…
Since the G20 summit in Rio, the taxation of the wealthiest has seemed omnipresent, without it being easy to make out a clear horizon for any reform. Is this merely an ideological debate, or does a serious effort quietly exist…
In September 2024, Mario Draghi handed the European Commission a damning report. Europe's problem, he argued in essence, is not so much knowing what to do as managing to do it in time.[1] That remark sums up thirty years of…
The more efficient AI models become, the more their environmental impact is likely to rise. This paradox lies at the heart of a debate the industry often prefers to sidestep — and that research is only beginning to confront. Can…
