Resilience
Keep your pencils: technically feasible, humanly acceptable?
We sell software. And yet, in every SDIS, we say the same thing: keep your pencils.
A sentence heard at the congress
“Just because it is technically feasible does not mean it is humanly acceptable.”
We heard it on 1 October on the stage of the Fédération nationale des sapeurs-pompiers de France (the national firefighters’ federation), at Mondial Secours & Protection 2026. A sentence we will keep for a long time, going against the tide.
The speaker talked about what makes firefighters strong: a culture of memory, of respect for experience gained in the field. And about the need to keep people able, if everything goes down, to run a CTA with pen and paper. “It is like a vaccine.”
Faced with the AI arriving in control rooms, his rule comes down to a few words: useful, controlled algorithms. He quoted Thomas Edison, who deliberately reduced his first light bulbs to the intensity of gas lighting, so that his technology would be accepted. An inventor who thinks first of the person in front of him.
We completely agree
Tomorrow, a cyberattack, a power cut, no more fuel, a satellite switched off on you, a storm… and nothing works any more. On that day, what will still work is what you have kept.
All-technology is a mistake. At Easy Multi Display, we make simple tools that do not depend on the internet, that an operator picks up without training, with a backup solution for every case. And above all, our customers master their tools: they depend on no one, not even on us. That is what resilience is.
Technology in the service of firefighters. Not the other way round.