Roland Piquepaille lives in beautiful Paris, France, "where food is good and where we are fighting hard to remove cars from the center." He spent most of his career in computing, especially in high performance computing and visualization, working for Cray Research and Silicon Graphics. His areas of expertise include software development, in particular for seismic applications. He left the corporate world two years ago to become an IT consultant. He also started in 2002 a weblog dedicated to discover how new technologies will affect our lives. This blog, Roland Piquepaille's Technology Trends attracts about 150,000 visitors per month.