https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-Anthropocene-a-Challenge-for-Agriculture https://booksandideas.net/The-Anthropocene-a-Challenge-for-Agriculture 2021-04-19T07:00:00Z text/html en Bertrand Valiorgue Society environmentalism agriculture prediction anthropocene collapsology <p>What will farming look like in the future? Will there still be room for agriculture? What is certain is that the time has come for a complete overhaul of a model that is now obsolete. This essay considers the possible scenarios.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Who-Benefits-from-the-Crime https://booksandideas.net/Who-Benefits-from-the-Crime 2016-10-31T08:00:00Z text/html en Bilel Benbouzid Society International United States of America crime police prediction Florence Gould Foundation big data <p>Can an algorithm predict crime? For several years, United States police forces have used software that is said to detect the locations of future crimes and offences. Of the many companies working in this field, Predpol is the name that is mentioned the most. But the success of this Californian start-up is more the result of marketing than any actual predictive effectiveness. The stance of this paper is twofold: first, a closer look from the seismologist who developed the algorithm reveals that this solution is far from having the predictive capacity boasted by its promoters. Second, the ethical problem with Predpol's algorithm appears not to be police discrimination, as many feared, but rather the exclusion of a section of the population from the public security offering.</p>