"Citizen development has sparked a new era in which employees not only improve or streamline their own processes and tasks but automate them entirely."

Translation: the number of people who are PERSONALLY training the exact software that will replace them is increasing

Have a laugh here:

https://hbr.org/2023/09/were-all-programmers-now

"I want to get back to that world where airplanes don’t last as long because we make better ones"

is maybe the least sustainable vision I've come across in months. Found here, by @juliaonatroika

https://arenamag.com/2024/06/05/the-dream-of-speed/

I just fond this website that, if completed:

would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be - including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on."

https://libraryofbabel.info/About.html

"As long as you think you are your thoughts and your ideas are your identity, you’ll believe you are a courageous soldier in the culture war when really you are an unconscious slave to your socialized mind."

https://www.sloww.co/meta-crisis-me-crisis/

"will #chatGPT / #AI take my job?"

is the DUMBEST QUESTION EVER, BAR NONE.

Look at things in the RIGHT order, please:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ubi-ai-and-reality-always-in-the

Sherlock "I'll do my best to forget that the Earth turns around the Sun" Holmes would have liked this:

"any information that you can't use is junk info"

https://www.gurwinder.blog/p/the-intellectual-obesity-crisis

Nice summary by @tedgioia of the "10 Reasons Why Technological Progress Is Now Reversing"

Could have been much shorter though. Replace (at least) the first 5 with "#capitalism" and it's the same.

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/10-reasons-why-technological-progress

The last 2 bullets of this list make a LOT of sense. The first is a TERRIBLE, TERRIBLE mistake, with #music or any other kind of digital document. See why here

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ever-wondered-why-we-are-in-a-digital

screenshot from https://mikerourke.dev/blog/cleaning-my-digital-slate/

Turns out at least ONE report said the right thing out loud:

Americans could decrease their needs of strategic raw materials up to 90% by simply stopping to be the Americans they are today.

PS: same for every other 1st world country, of course

PPS: not that there alternatives, see https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/no-petroleum-and-minerals-no-problem

@ps9714 Neither was I, but is still depressing.

Like the many cases in which newspapers write e.g. "Someguy, born in 1980 (44 years old)"

Just stop, stop, STOP now to use #Google as search engine:

https://www.vincentschmalbach.com/google-now-defaults-to-not-indexing-your-content/

Seriously. Start using newsletters and RSS to discover interesting stuff:

https://stop.zona-m.net/tag/rss

Those in the screenshot are exactly what should be the "Type E" buildings I argue should be taken down asap to have good cities in 2070

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

Quote source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/florida-hit-by-worst-real-estate-crisis-in-decades/ar-AA1oXlcH

Speaking of #AI #ArtificialIntelligence vs human intelligence or ignorance...

I find the fact that the journalist felt the need to include the answers to the puzzles that defeat chatbots a bit depressing.

Do you?

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/06/ai-llms

Me, 5yrs ago: "Software polarizes everything. Even #sex

https://stop.zona-m.net/2019/08/software-polarizes-everything.-even-sex/

2024, after years of #dating apps:

"The trend for #celibacy – a “Great Abstaining” – has come “amid any number of moral panics about sex, mainly related to young people … that is, confusingly, entering the discourse just on the heels of peak #polyamory"

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/aug/17/dating-apps-decline-bumble-tinder

Hi, I'm your #AI assistant.

I can help you to write about any topic

ME: sure, summarize this:

NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO. NO

"It is the the duty of a Webmaster to allocate URIs which you will be able to stand by in 2 years, in 20 years, in 200 years." (*)

What a wonderful confirmation from *1998* of my last post about WHY & HOW we are in a "Digital Dark Age"

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ever-wondered-why-we-are-in-a-digital

(*) Source: https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html.en

Q: "Should #schools ban #smartphones":

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/should-schools-ban-phones

ME: yes, but it will do VERY little good until ALL #PARENTS start banning personal smartphones for their kids ~ < 14 yrs old:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/smartphones-are-the-source-of-a-huge

and above all:

https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/honestly-the-problem-with-children

you are all getting #UBI and #ArtificialIntelligence / #AI ...

BACKWARDS. Almost literally.

I mean it: https://mfioretti.substack.com/p/ubi-ai-and-reality-always-in-the