Alain Louyot

The Future of the Press

The first investigation and assessment of its kind, in order to propose a viable new business model for the press. An analysis of current mutations in the press around the world, and of their good and bad consequences for readers.

Jacques Lesourne

The Futures Which Never Happened

The writer’s goal can be briefly summarised: to place himself at different key European dates during the twentieth-century, to assume that we don’t know the future, and then to imagine other conceivable historical outcomes starting with those dates. For the anticipator, the future is not determined. It is the complex product of necessity, chance and will. Lesourne has re-examined about 20 historical events from the perspective of a “retro-forecaster”, casting a new, unexpected light on the past century: for example, July 1914, Saint Petersburg in 1917, Versailles in 1919.... Jacques Lesourne is a former publisher of the French daily Le Monde.

Bernard Thomasson

You’ll Hear From Me