Guillaume Pitron

Journalist, Author and Filmmaker

Guillaume Pitron is a French journalist, author and filmmaker. He has written two books, published in some fifteen

countries, about the natural resources needed for new technology. He has been invited to share his ideas in the

French and international media (Le Figaro, BBC World Service, Bloomberg TV, El País, La Repubblica) and at

international forums and institutions (Davos, IMF, European Commission, Unesco).

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A simple "like" sent from our smartphones mobilizes what will soon constitute the largest infrastructure built by man. This small notification, crossing the seven operating layers of the Internet, travels around the world, using submarine cables, telephone antennas, and data centers, as far as the Arctic Circle.

It turns out that the "dematerialized" digital world, essential for communicating, working, and consuming, is much more tangible than we would like to believe. We are struggling to understand these impacts, as they are obscured to us in the mirage of "the cloud".

Under the guise of limiting the impact of humans on the planet, this technology is already asserting itself as one of the major environmental challenges of the twenty-first century.