Archaic French beast
Next Wednesday in Paris, presidential candidate NKM ( Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet ) will be holding a major meeting, announced by means of a nostalgic old poster. Certain candidates think that life in the old days was better. Why don't we rather get together to design France Tomorrow ? Are there really any presidential candidates who believe that life in France was better back in the good old days when our most powerful communications device was the Minitel? That would surprise me. It’s a fact that this gadget was once looked upon as a good invention, of which France could be proud. I remember a TV interview in which a journalist asked Laurent Fabius what he thought of personal computers. His reply included a curious phrase : “ Yes, I use a Minitel. ” I was shocked by the words of Fabius, which fell like a stray hair in the soup. Most serious computer specialists always knew that this French invention (based in fact upon British research) was overrated, and did not deserve to b...