It is now being assumed — without strong feelings or controversy — that thousands of intelligent objects will be connected to the Internet in the near future. These prospects might gladden hearts or scare weaker souls. They are, day after day, ever more likely ...

Can the digital sector relaunch France’s national economy ? For a few years now, this question has nagged experts and spawned topquality reports. Despite their relevance, these documents all err by too simply separating the “new technology”, adorned with all virtues and loaded with...

In this paper we examine the possibility to bridge theory of Distributed Cognition with popular theories of Social Studies of Technology (in particular, Actor-Network Theory and Social Construction of Technology). Responding to a recent call for revisiting the design metaphor, in this paper we...