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Internet, brain of humanity / Internet, cerveau de l'humanité

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Internet frees exchanges, connects machines and humans opening the frontiers of knowledge, and allows the sharing of knowledge, techniques, and experiences from each to all.  Those first words were "Hello World".  Then comes file transfer (Ftp), websites (www), emails, babies, newsgroups, p2p, ddl, torrents, vpn, forums, blogs, the cloud, social networks  , crowdfunding, blockchain, encrypted and decentralized currencies ... And it's far from over, in short, the small network for universities has grown, still very young, but still as promising.  Let's dream together for a moment and imagine the full potential of this great tool, much more important than printing or any technological revolution, as important as writing was in its time, the internet is revolutionizing our world, changing our habits and our  way of seeing things forcing us to see the globality and the precariousness of our civilization.  I imagine when humanity will be ready to make peace and the peoples

Natural agriculture, permaculture, agroecology, agroforestry ... / Agriculture naturelle, permaculture, agroécologie, agroforesterie...

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Agriculture (from the Latin agricultura, composed from ager, field and anger, to cultivate) is a process by which humans arrange their ecosystems to meet the primary and other food needs of their societies.  Formerly, the peasants respected the land, maintained it by cherishing it, thanks to ancestral methods, they did not ask nature more than what they needed, producing on the smallest possible surface ...  Then, the mechanization methods made it possible to professionalize the practices and the practitioners becoming farmers, agrochemical technicians, who for the sake of profitability have invested considerably in large areas of land, cultivating the same species for kilometers,  degrading the soils with their plow, eliminating nature, favoring invasive species, so they decided to use chemicals to exterminate this vermin, pesticides ... then the earth became sterile, so the chemists decided to provide the  bricks of life with chemical fertilizers of course.  As the land is no longer