Asked why, Mr. Le Meur said one attendee asked him to put it away.
Mr. Le Meur was also worried that Mr. Hollande was planning to heavily tax stock options.
But Le Meur points to the ability of hardware creations to entirely disrupt supply chains.
"We build websites, then apps, and now we are back to hardware, " Le Meur said.
"France produces fantastic engineers, " said Loic Le Meur, the founder of Le Web, an important digital-industry conference.
Le Meur said the theme may be a bit risky, and he's a "little scared" it will scare his sponsors.
Le Meur is seeing a trend of entrepreneurs who reject money, fame and power -- they just want to be happy.
We have "no choice but to fully embrace" today's online products, Le Meur told me about technology which he describes as "unheralded" in history.
Davos, a gathering of the world's elite, could not be further from the idea of digital hippies, but it serves an important role, Le Meur says.
"It has to offer enough value that you don't mind the social awkwardness, " said Mr. Le Meur, who was briefly not wearing his Glass at a cocktail event.
"I fully understand that many jobs in declining sectors should be protected but my concern is that Hollande seems more focused on protecting the past than preparing the future, " said Mr. Le Meur.
According to Le Meur, who did acknowledge to me some privacy concerns with "faster than realtime" (especially with respect to personal financial and location data), it offers "extraordinary" opportunities to improve our own lives by learning about our bodies, finding a job or starting a business.
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