The Cube (a cultural room dedicated to digital creation) has invited Bernard Werber, the author of successful science fiction books, to the conference “Meet the Future” this Wednesday, November 17. This event, broadcasted live over the Internet, invited users to participate by asking questions as if they were in the game. The topics discussed were the future and of course the digital world. There was talk of merging man-machine, which finally is a current question because, as the author argues, we are already cyborgs by tapping on our computer, without a barrier between our thoughts and what is displayed on the screen. During this debate, the author expressed very passionately his “spiritual” vision about our world, its future and our habits. For what’s more, he does not hesitate to use different types of media to communicate his work. The tree of possibilities, for example, is a Wikipedia-style observatory of the future and could not exist only with the Internet. This media has provided us the tools and encourages users to communicate and thus generate feedback. But, he said, information from Internet users must be channeled so that it does not become a mass of chaotic data. These elements and these reflections make Bernard Werber an author of cross-media.
