Newsletter

Dear friends, cher(e)s ami(e)s:

I have been fortunate to be born in the South of France, to be named an American.

I have been fortunate to be an emigrant and an immigrant.

I have been fortunate to study in France and in the US.

I have been fortunate to study engineering and management.

I have been fortunate to approach the infinitly small, big and complex.

I have been fortunate to research and to teach.

I have been fortunate to work on alloys and alliances.

I have been fortunate to work for the public and private sectors.

I have been fortunate to be a rocket scientist, a space diplomat and finally to become a cyberspace entrepreneur.

I have been fortunate to live in places of peace.

I have been fortunate to live in the free world and to live free.

I am fortunate to believe in the futrue.

My kids and their friends and many of you often ask me what I think of the current international and technological environments that appear both disrupted and disruptive, ominous and chaotic.

I answer, usually, it is the storm before the calm, the rain before the sunshine.

So, I have decided to launch this newsletter, to exchange "positive" views.

Please be nice with me ;)

I count on you to steer the questions, to provide me with the inspiration and the energy for the next letter and the next.

Hopefully, we will be able to define this vision of calm.

I will quote my favorite poet (I let you find out who!) to provide a first iteration of this vision:

" Tout n'est qu'ordre et beauté,

Luxe, calme et volupté"

I will quote my second favorite Poet (?) that appears as such on the wall of the Science and Technology Committee Room of the US Congress:

"For I dipt into the future,

Far as human eye could see,

Saw the vision of the world,

And all the wonder that would be"

And to conclude I will quote the sentence located on the other side of the same wall:

"Where there is no vision the people perish"

AD ASTRA!