
Thierry Caminel

Thierry Caminel is an engineer; he is a technological and numerical consultant and is interested in peak oil and the relationship between energy, economic activity and technological progress. As an activist he gives some of his time to associations and has worked on the Bristol adaptation report on transition towns.


Of the Acceleration of Algorithms
Autonomous cars without human drivers, “Go” (a strategy board game), robots taking over jobs previously held by workers: these innovations are all evidence of the acceleration of technological change, which progresses at a much faster rate than genetic evolution. The speed at which algorithms can make comparisons has increased for the benefit of Uber, Google […]