"There is no way to aspire to a better future without aspiring to functional cities.. [therefore] many of our cities will need such a refounding as well", writes @SamoBurja:

https://www.palladiummag.com/2024/05/31/the-city-makes-the-civilization/

I agree. Here's my proposal to do just that:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-city-reboot-for-2070-that-we-122

"Are you a #Microsoft investor? Be afraid. Be very afraid. By 2010 Windows will be as dead as CP/M, and every Windows-based software vendor will be either supporting #Linux or out of business."

said in 1999: https://muq.org/~cynbe/rants/lastdino.htm

Mom send teenagers to unsupervised, NO #smartphone #camping, they are happy:

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/smartphone-free-camp-trip

but I REALLY have to ask: what Mrs Aitkenhead did was basically to "reinvent" #scouting (cfr the Brownsea camp of 1907). Why is this not mentioned at all? Seriously.

"It started to feel like I was the robot" is EXACTLY what I wrote 7 years ago:

https://stop.zona-m.net/2017/10/robots-displacing-humans...-or-humans-becoming-robots/

So, first read here how it's happening now:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240612-the-people-making-ai-sound-more-human

and then subscribe to newsletters like mine, which are and will remain human:

https://mfioretti.substack.com

Proof n. 9999999.... that consumer #AI is like consumer #IoT, i.e. almost always snake oil:

"Companies may unintentionally hurt their sales by including the words “#artificialintelligence” when describing their offerings"

https://news.wsu.edu/press-release/2024/07/30/using-the-term-artificial-intelligence-in-product-descriptions-reduces-purchase-intentions/

#AI, #parenting, peak #energy, REALLY smart homes and cities...

check the screenshots for thoughts and PROPOSALS about these and many more crucial topics seldom covered as I do in my newsletter... and then subscribe, of course! (thanks for sharing the invitation as much as you see fit)

https://mfioretti.substack.com

#Renewables cannot be made by renewables" and ocean nodules cannot be mined as they produce oxygen, says Honest Sorcerer:
https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/deep-sea-delusions

For much more on the same basic problem, read my recent summary of 3 videos full of data: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/no-petroleum-and-minerals-no-problem

@Agatha yes, but I'm still sure the "use case" or "user profile" they wanted to evoke by showing those seats reclined it's another one...

Making city downtowns "Tabula Rasa" as M. Hinshaw proposes here:

https://nextcity.org/urbanist-news/its-time-for-commercial-landlords-and-cities-to-face-the-music

looks a LOT like the "CIties of 2070" I propose here:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-city-reboot-for-2070-that-we-122

no?

car maker says lots to show how advanced its #driverless car is:

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a61423917/rimac-autonomous-verne-robotaxi/

but I bet you anything that they count on convincing many with just the right half of THIS one, shrewdly planned picture:

"It all becomes performative, superfast.. #Trump is the quintessential person who thrives there. W/o #Twitter, Trump never could have been president":

https://www.noemamag.com/social-media-messed-up-our-kids-now-it-is-making-us-ungovernable/

That's why I proposed "2 Minutes of Hate, every day": https://stop.zona-m.net/2021/01/we-really-need-two-minutes-of-hate-every-day/

"#AI will involve a collaboration between humans and machines"????

Hell no. 100% wrong. There will be humans who also use the variety of software called AI to do their things.

Keep the right perspective, people

(but AI for antibiotics is great, of course)

https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/jun/05/ai-antibiotic-resistance

The pure non-existence of enough raw stuff to keep doing Business As Usual (BAU) is maybe the most ignored fact of our time.

But BAU is NOT a law of nature and, unlike BAU, solutions compatible with reality exist:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/no-petroleum-and-minerals-no-problem

Tale n. 999999.... of idiotic #AI #smarthome products that should have never come to existence:

smart tootbrush that was bricked:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/oral-b-bricks-ability-to-set-up-alexa-on-230-smart-toothbrush/

Where generative AI really has an effect, based on politicos working for campaigns, is the non-sexy parts of electioneering:

https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/digital-bridge/when-generative-ai-gets-political/

The first and most important "hardware" we need right now does not come from #nVidia and is not #AI. It's soil, and what grows on it:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/the-first-ai-that-should-get-money

As far drivers and consumers are concerned, a car is just a tool like a screwdriver, not one's dignity.

What if everybody who needs a car got even better solutions, or cars so good to "pretty much demolishes most other car companies" and last 25 years?

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/carmakers-must-die-and-flat-cars

The purpose of #education is NOT getting a job, or getting in #DEBT. Stop believing this myth. Here is why:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/innovation-scams-education-myths

to #linkedIn and EVERY OTHER PLATFORM that says "start writing with AI"

Hell, NO.

do the same, and share, pls.