H Hour #05: Can our taste for technology cause us to lose our taste for others?
Event details
| Date | 08.10.2025 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker | Bruno Lemaître, immunologiste, professeur à l’EPFL ; Claire Balleys, professeure associée à la Faculté des Sciences de la Société en socio-anthropologie des pratiques numériques et communicationnelles de l’UNIGE |
| Location | Online |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | French |
Everyone has their own connection, their own screen, their own AI that is always flattering, immediately available, and supposedly omniscient: technology is designed for individualized use, reducing constraints, frustrations, and obstacles as much as possible… This is everything that relationships with others are not. Is an increasingly techno-centered world an increasingly egocentric and narcissistic world?
With:
- Bruno Lemaître, Immunologist, professor at EPFL, and author of several books on the subject of narcissism in society and science.
- Claire Balleys, Sociologist, professor at UNIGE, director of Medialab (Institute of Communication Sciences and Digital Cultures).
Moderation: Anne Laure Gannac, journalist at the EPFL College of Humanities and RTS.
This event can also be watched live or recorded on our YouTube channel.
> Free admission upon registration (sandwiches provided)
Discussion takes place mainly in French, but questions in English are welcome.
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Practical information
- General public
- Registration required