La Grande Rentree

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Well. It turns out business meetings in Paris are about as exiting as business meetings in the UK, but with more time confusion. I did spend a pleasing pre-bed hour watching terrible French tv on Tuesday, and I'd never been to the Bibliotheque Nationale so that was fun. I'd been warned about their terrifying canteen where you get a 3 course lunch

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[brunettepet]

The push for making everything smarter but human beings is ridiculous.

I'm intrigued by what you ended up with on your tray at the terrifying canteen.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

I'm surprised smart implants into people are still mostly a scifi dystopia. I'm sure they will come.

I ended up with pate as a starter (there was bread to go with, serve yourself at the till from fresh baguettes, but I really didn't need it). Then a chicken portion with noodles and a sauce which was mixed vegetable gravy, more or less. And I really didn't want a pudding so I took some cheese, but with the pate and the chicken it was incredibly protein-heavy. Some other people got a lentil and vegetable dish as a main course which would have been so much better. And apparently I could have had salad for my starter. I will know better next time (I'm going to do a secondment there, though it won't be always in that building, so I'll have a chance to use it again!).

[amberdreams]

I couldn't answer that first question at all - I mean, why? What?
Yay for Parisian exploits.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

I know. Everything my eye randomly alighted on (hairbrush? bin?) is either already potentially smart and I want to avoid or very unsmart and I'd like to keep it that way.

[amberdreams]

They could make people smarter, then maybe we'd avoid Brexits and Trumps.

[thismaz]

Combining skype-type communications with VR might be nice.

[brutti_ma_buoni]

Only for friends, I would respectfully suggest. There are many work contacts I'd rather not... feel so very close to...

[thismaz]

*laughs* Point. There would need to be a nice, big virtual conference table too.