ages are not that peaceful.
You can use them to take action, even to kill."

What part does the internet play in his novel? "The internet is
a character in itself. Instead of being described in its
technical complexity, it is depicted as a character that can be
either threatening, kind or amusing. Remember the computer
screen has a dual role - displaying as well as concealing. This
ambivalence is the theme throughout. In such a game, the big
winner is of course the one who knows how to free himself from
the machine's grip and put humanism and intelligence before
everything else."

= The web and its hyperlinks

Like many artists, Jean-Paul began searching how hyperlinks
could expand his writing towards new directions. He switched
from being a print author to being an hypermedia author, and
created "Cotres furtifs" (Furtive Cutters) as a website
"telling stories in 3D". He enjoyed the freedom given by online
(self-)publishing, and wrote in August 1999: "The internet
allows me to do without intermediaries, such as record
companies, publishers and distributors. Most of all, it allows
me to crystallize what I have in my head: the print medium
(desktop publishing, in fact) only allows me to partly do
that."

He also insisted on the growing interaction between digital
literature and technology. "The future of cyber-literature,
techno-literature, digital literature or whatever you want to
call it, is set by the technology itself. It is now impossible
for an author to handle all by himself the words and their
movement and sound. A decade ago, you could know well each of
Director, Photoshop or Cubase (to cite just the better known
software), using the first version of each. That is not
possible any more. Now we have to know how to delegate, find
more solid financial partners than Gallimard, and look in the
direction of Hachette-Matra, Warner, the Pentagon and
Hollywood. At best, the status of multimedia director (?) will
be the one of video director, film director, manager of the
product. He is the one who receives the golden palms at Cannes,
but who would never have been able to earn them just on his
own. As twin sister (not a clone) of the cinematograph, cyber-
literature (video + the link) will be an industry, with a few
isolated craftsmen on the outer edge (and therefore with below-
zero copyright)."

Jean-Paul added in June 2004: "Surfing the web is like
radiating in all directions (I am interested in something