Riccardo Mori

@morrick.bsky.social

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Writer, translator and localisation specialist, enthusiast photographer, vintage tech appreciator. Location & languages: Spain // 🇮🇹🇬🇧🇪🇸 Website: http://morrick.me No license, implied or explicit, is granted to use any of my posts for training AI models.

Image of an iPhone 5 and iPhone 5s side by side.
Screenshot of a YouTube comment that says: “Canada vs. US = The Banker vs. The Wanker”.
Technopoly eliminates alternatives to itself in precisely the way Aldous Huxley outlined in "Brave New World." It does not make them illegal. It does not make them immoral. It does not even make them unpopular. It makes them invisible and therefore irrelevant. And it does so by redefining what we mean by religion, by art, by family, by politics, by history, by truth, by privacy, by intelligence, so that our definitions fit its new requirements. Technopoly, in other words, is totalitarian technocracy.
The simplicity of operation is something I really value about this vehicle. You don't really have all the extra stuff. You don't have the blind-spot monitoring. You don't have the lane-keeping control. You don't have Wi-Fi. You don't have updates. You got a steering wheel, an ignition, a shifter and, in this car, two pedals. You've got a heater control. This thing never lets you forget what you're here to do, which is operate a piece of machinery. And that's all we're doing. We're operating a piece of machinery for the sake of getting where we want to go or just going for a drive. The cars that are built today, are built to disconnect you from that experience. That's the point. That's what most modern consumers want. They want the maximum ease of use and they want to have the ability to be distracted from the experience. It's all based around our modern culture's obsession with our phones and our screens. We want to be able to drive our cars while we're on our phones. The simple fact is that modern cars are designed around the idea of being on our phones while we drive.
Do you see the 90s as an era of invention, or are we massaging current technology? Are we explorers, or pioneers? It depends on who you look at. The commercial world has never been into invention. They're just trying to get by and make money. One of the things that has been detrimental in the commercialization of computer technology - starting in the early 80s - is the lack of pure research. It's hard to keep good people in the universities when you can make so much money writing applications software or working for a computer company. So the number of people doing really top notch research is less than it was in the mid-1970s. What is getting the attention of these researchers? Artificial life, the Danny Hillis stuff is really hot, some of the agent things and some work at MIT and Stanford. The biggest problem is that it's hard to invent architectures and with the machines doubling in speed and capacity so rapidly the only things that help you are ways of reducing complexity. Right now I don't think we're doing so well. I think that computers are growing in capacity much faster than our ability to either invent or adopt architectures that help control that capacity.
Typical Drake meme. Above, the words "AI: Artificial Intelligence" are rejected. Below, the words "IA: Imperceptive Automation" are approved.
Gruber posting nonsense on his blog.