le monde recalls cyclade

The election of president Valéry Giscard d'Estaing rang the final bell for the delegation of Computer science and subsequently for the interest in Cyclades. “They told us in essence: “Fellow researchers, you have done a good job, but now, you have to let industry take over,” the engineer recalls. For the peoples who were in charge at that time, it was clear that this research was finished. Instead, they told us that we needed to find applications in order to “computerize the society.”

today pouzin chairs the idea of a multilingual internet and is called at nlic as "godfather of the internet". another one. now i know two of them. would be interesting to bring them together, to lean back and to listen.