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Écrit par l'auteur de la biographie autorisée de Steve Jobs, voici le récit intime de l'innovateur le plus fascinant et le plus controversé de la planète. Visionnaire défiant toutes les règles, Elon Musk est l'homme qui a fait entrer le monde dans l'ère des voitures électriques, de l'exploration spatiale privée et de l'intelligence artificielle. Ah, au fait : il a aussi racheté Twitter. Durant son enfance en Afrique du Sud, Elon Musk est la cible des violences de ses camarades.Un jour, une bande le pousse du haut d'une volée de marches et le roue de coups, réduisant son visage à une masse de chair boursouflée. Il passe une semaine à l'hôpital. Mais les blessures physiques sont peu de choses face aux balafres émotionnelles que lui inflige son père, ingénieur véreux et rêveur charismatique. A son retour, ce dernier le traite d'idiot et de bon à rien. L'ombre portée de son père pèsera longtemps sur lui.Musk est devenu un homme-enfant coriace mais vulnérable doté d'une tolérance anormalement élevée au risque, d'un goût brûlant pour le scandale, d'un instinct messianique grandiose et d'une ardeur impitoyable quand elle n'est pas funeste. Début 2022 - à la suite d'une année marquée par le lancement de 31 satellites par SpaceX, la vente d'un million de Tesla et sa consécration en tant qu'homme le plus riche de la planète -, Musk déplore sa tendance à semer la zizanie.Dans le même temps, il achète des parts de Twitter en secret et devient le propriétaire du terrain de jeu le plus convoité du monde - sa revanche contre les violences subies à l'école. Pendant deux ans, Isaacson a marché dans les pas de Musk, suivi ses réunions, parcouru ses usines avec lui ; il l'a interviewé pendant des heures, ainsi que sa famille, ses amis, ses collègues et ses adversaires. En résulte un ouvrage révélateur, émaillé de récits fabuleux où alternent cataclysmes et triomphes, et qui pose la question suivante : les démons qui aiguillonnent Musk sont-ils aussi le moteur du progrès ?
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"Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the world-and the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don't receive widespread recognition until decades later, sometimes after their author's death. Nobel Prize-winner Max Planck, whose black-body radiation law established the discipline of quantum mechanics, stated this as what has become known as Planck's principle, commonly summarized as "Science progresses one funeral at a time." In other words, for some truly groundbreaking discoveries, a new consensus builds only when proponents of the old consensus die off. Breakthrough discoveries require a paradigm shift, and it takes time and new minds for the new paradigm to be adopted. In Innovators, Donald Kirsch tells the stories of sixteen visionary scientists who suffered this fate, some now famous like Max Planck himself, Galileo, and Gregor Mendel, and some less well known. Among them are Barbara McClintock who, working with Indian corn, discovered transposons, also known as jumping genes, which provide a major mechanism driving biological evolution; Rachel Carson, catalyst for the environmental movement; and Roger Revelle, the climatologist whose findings were the first to be described by the term "global warming." The breakthroughs cover fields from biology to medicine to physics and earth sciences and include the discovery of prions, life-changing treatments such as drugs for high blood pressure, ulcers, and organ transplantation; the process of continental drift; and our understanding of how molecules form matter"--
Discoveries in science --- Inventions. --- Inventors. --- Scientists. --- Science --- Découvertes scientifiques --- Sciences --- Inventions. --- Inventeurs. --- Scientifiques. --- History. --- History. --- Histoire. --- Histoire. --- Planck, Max, --- Mendel, Gregor, --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Semmelweis, Ignác Fülöp, --- Revelle, Roger, --- Rous, Peyton, --- Carson, Rachel, --- Prusiner, Stanley B., --- Avogadro, Amedeo, --- Cushman, David W. --- Ondetti, Miguel A. --- Wegener, Alfred, --- Warren, J. Robin --- Marshall, Barry J., --- Johnson, Robert, --- Planck, Max, --- Mendel, Gregor, --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Semmelweis, Ignâac Fèulèop, --- Revelle, Roger, --- Carson, Rachel Louise, --- Prusiner, Stanley B., --- Avogadro, Amedeo, --- Ondetti, Miguel A. --- Wegener, Alfred, --- Warren, Robin, --- Marshall, Barry J., --- Johnson, Robert,
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The impact of fintech is growing rapidly worldwide, although this growth is uneven across jurisdictions. Depending on the effect of fintech, authorities may adopt a passive approach of monitoring fintech, try and capture new business models in existing regulatory frameworks, develop bespoke regulation, or adopt test and learn policies through institutional arrangements like innovation hubs and sandboxes. The test and learn approach is relatively unique to fintech in financial regulation and supervision and has advantages and disadvantages. While it can help authorities monitor and respond to the challenges of fintech in some scenarios, in others it could lead to risks to consumers and markets, particularly when designed poorly or with an unclear use case. Ultimately, the aim for authorities should be to consider fintech regulation part of the mainstream, where fintech expertise is embedded throughout an organization and not siloed to specific fintech units.
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