From Nadar in a balloon to artificial satellites, the ardent desire to examine our planet from afar has mobilized the most daring techniques. One observation is clear: from a distance as well as up close, the evidence of major recent changes in our living environment is evident to everyone. At the cost of bitter decades of discussions, the community of peoples finally recognizes that it is no stranger to the serious phenomena which are now altering the course of life on Earth. Shaking up climate and biodiversity, human technology has come on board and claims to govern living things like minerals, the slightest gene, the smallest particle. To the point of naming this strange geological era that we live in today Anthropocene, while shaping it.