Joël de Rosnay, is Docteur ès Sciences and scientific writer, presently President of Biotics International, a consulting company specialized in the impact of new technologies on industries, and Special Advisor to the President of the Universcience of which he was Director of Forecasting and Assessment until June 2002.
Biography
From 1975 to 1985 he was Director of Research Applications at l'Institut Pasteur . Former research associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the field of biology and computer graphics, he was successively Scientific Attaché to the French Embassy in the United States, and Scientific Director of European Enterprises Development Company from 1971 to 1975. As well as several reports, namely : Biotechnologies and Bio Industry, an annex to the report Sciences de la vie et Société by Professors Gros, Jacob and Royer. He was also co-responsible for the report which led to the creation of CESTA.
As author
De Rosnay is particularly interested in advanced technologies and the applications of system theory; his concept of the macroscope, a "big picture" view of the globe and its residents, was published in 1975. On these subjects, he wrote :
De Rosnay wrote for several years on new technologies for the economic magazine L'Expansion. He speaks on the same subject for Europe1, a radio network. De Rosnay is the author of several scientific books aimed at a wider public, such as:
Les origines de la vie, ;
La malbouffe ;
La Révolution Biologique, ;
Branchez-vous,, a book on personal computers;
L'Aventure du Vivant ;
L'avenir en direct ;
Les rendez-vous du Futur ;
L'Homme Symbiotique, regards sur le 3eme millénaire ;
La révolte du Prolétariat with the collaboration of Carlo Revelli, Fayard, 2006.
2020 : Les scénarios du futur, Fayard, 2008.
Surfer la Vie, Sur-Vivre dans la société fluide, :fr:Les Liens qui libèrent|LLL, May 2012;
Je cherche à comprendre...les codes cachés de la nature LLL, 2016;
La Symphonie du vivant, comment l'épigénétique va changer votre vie, LLL, 2018.
De Rosnay’s ideas have inspired various technology businesses and modern cultural works by creatives, entrepreneurs, and academics, notably around his notion of the cybiont. In TheSymbiotic Man, De Rosnay defines a unit of a wholistic social structure, expanding on the concept of the singular living holobiont to also include the totality of human-made machines. He terms this set the cybiont - an emerging “planetary macro-organism” of biological and synthetic entities, all operating in synchrony as a cybernetic system.
