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The global financial market Sprung up in the seventies, blossoming in the eighties, the global financial market acts so that all forms of financing capacities and needs meet together, on all markets. It is not the outcome of governmental decisions, but of the pressures of the needs and the competition optimisation, through the technological speeding up of information and communication, financial innovations, deregulation, market intermediation. Its permanent participants : about one hundred international banks, two hundred great international investors, three hundred industrial and commercial multinationals, and some dozens of States and international organizations labels. The orders of magnitude of the transactions are of several hundred billions dollars. The views of several ten thousands operators may plunge this market into a global crisis, and the role of the central banks is becoming marginal. Thus, with the exception of IMF, the industrial countries have built up a financial system deprived of any central authority. This new fact is worth thinking about.
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The terrible inflation in agricultural prices which occured between 1972 and 1975 made us believe of a major food crisis. As soon as 1978 the surpluses have come back and this situation could be worse at the end of the century with occuring new technologies : computer science, financial tools, bio technology. The European Communities and the United States will be faced with a gigantic dilemma : falling grain prices or ever increasing subsidies. What could we do ! The only reasonable answer is : agricultural négociations at a triple level : european, transatlantic, north-south.
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Beyond the traditional methods of screenplay writing, one can well conceive a use of modern computers and particular technics of A.I. as a support for creativity and imagination. The author describes how he has been able to construct a sufficiently strict and rigourous formalisation of narrative theories. This formalisation allows the conception and implantation of an automatic story generation system. This experimental system rests mainly on the particular capacity of computers to generate and to evaluate a large number of alternative stories in a fairly short time. Such a system could be useful as a creative tool for the screenwriter yet cannot pretend in any way to replace the human in his primary task of creation.
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