Bruno Latour, Aramis, or the Love of Technology, PDF - Dss-edit.com

"In fact, I should have spent a couple of hours with Quin behind Girard'sbock, to convince him it would never work." [no. 21]"Extraordinary! Compare this with the previous interview. Girardsays, 'if I'd been reasonable, I would have stopped it the day the World's Fairended. But Aramis was so promisinB, the admini.stration had invested somuch at the level of discourse, that I let it go on."'"s o th ey see eye to eye. ""Yes, they agree, but on a misunderstanding! In twenty years asa sociologist, I've never seen a thing like that. The two most importantdecisionmakers both think that they shouldn't have made the decisionthey made-that they should have been more courageous. Magnificent.Truly magnificent."[INTERVIEW EXCERPTS)Still in M. Etienne's office at Matra."As for Lagardere, he said to himself, 'Here I am in Notebart's position, withthe local locomotive that's going to pull Aramis along for me.'"He looked me straight in the eye. 'Can you do it?' I said, 'It's complicated,but we'll do it.' Even though I thought it was unnecessarily complex."ObViously, then there was the World's Fair; we thought that would helpus, and we were pushed along a path that we never were able to leave."The paradox is that when there was no more World's Fair, Girard said,'You see, simplifying wasn't worth it, since there's no rush' ."Girard always leaned toward the complex solution. 'Real high-tech, M.Quin; not the semi-high-tech that Matra has the nerve to propose to you.' That'swhat Girard was saying."For my part, I knew perfectly well that things had to get more complicatedas they went along. That's what Papa Dassault did. What do you make of athing that goes "Daddy! Mommy!" right away?"If I've understood correctly, the qUickest way to get to a real-life productwas the complicated way?""Yes, the shortest route was still a long one because it went by way of• INTERPHASE