Jean-Loup Richet is associate professor of information systems management and co-director of the risk chair at Sorbonne Business School, IAE Paris - Sorbonne, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. He has published numerous papers in trade and academic journals (European Journal of Information Systems; Psychology & Marketing; IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management; Technological Forecasting and Social Change; Systèmes d’Information & Management), and his work has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Wired, CBS, MIT Technology Review, Computerworld and many other media outlets.