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With no bitterness but some regret, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 61, the former magazine editor (L'Express), author (The American Challenge) and his country's leading technophile, stepped down last week as president of the Paris-based World Center for Computer Science and Human Resources. He resigned to protest his government's decision to use French computers rather than the Apple Macintosh in its ambitious computer-literacy program. Under the plan, which Servan-Schreiber devised in 1984, France will place computer-learning centers in 36,500 cities, towns, villages and hamlets. Yielding to pressure from France's computer industry...
...November to pursue an agreement with Carnegie-Mellon University, which heads a 17-campus consortium that offers French firms direct access to U.S. research in automated manufacturing, robotics, artificial intelligence and computer- based education. "In Gaullist times French identity was to be defended against American domination," says Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, author (The American Challenge) and former Cabinet minister who heads the government's computer-development agency. "Now instead of being afraid of America, we are forging all possible links." Despite disagreements over Central America and Libya, Mitterrand's Socialist government has turned out to be among the Reagan Administration...
...industries, and an international computer network could bring important agricultural and medical information to even the most remote villages. "What networks of railroads, highways and canals were in another age, networks of telecommunications, information and computerization ... are today," says Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky. Says French Editor Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, who believes that the computer's teaching capability can conquer the Third World's illiteracy and even its tradition of high birth rates: "It is the source of new life that has been delivered...
French ambitions go beyond national borders. In an effort to make Paris a world headquarters of the computer revolution, the government has established the grandly named Centre Mondial Informatique et Ressources Humaines (World Center for Personal Computation and Human Development). Headed by Author-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, the organization recently lured to Paris four of America's foremost computer scientists. With that kind of expertise and top government support, computers of the future are likely to have at least a slight French accent...
When he made that famous forecast in The American Challenge a decade ago, the French publisher and pop economist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber voiced a familiar European fear: that U.S. industry, armed with a strong dollar and high technological and marketing prowess, was rapidly turning Western Europe into a sort of American commercial romper room. So much for that worry. What now seems to rouse European passions is not the threat of a Yankee invasion but the prospect of a disruptive retreat...