Or: how artificial intelligence figured out the trick of emotional capitalism The wrong question (which we love to ask) Pinocchio never questions the presence of a soul. He does not seek opinions from ethics committees, nor does he raise public discussions about the meaning of his existence. Instead, he performs a much more insidious act: … Read more
What a long, strange trip it’s been’ sang the Grateful Dead. And they were right: the journey of innovation is never a straight, well-paved highway. Rather, it is a lysergic path where, to move forward, you must first burn the map that brought you there. Year 1949. Imagine you are in the shoes of the … Read more
The real revolutionary act is not to destroy the system. It is to refuse to play its game while you are still in it. Rebels who question power emerge in every age: moral hacks identify inconsistencies in the system, like Antigone, Jesus or the Grateful Dead, Lucifer or Ted Kaczynski. They often face punishment, because … Read more
‘God is dead’: an expression that spans the centuries, from Nietzsche to Guccini, via the Nomads, and that continues to echo in multiple contexts. Nietzsche used it to describe the crisis of traditional values that once gave meaning to existence; Guccini and the Nomads have made it their own in music, to recount the unease … Read more
When 10% of the machines do 90% of the work (and the horses disappear) In 1963, Derek J. de Solla Price discovered some ruthless mathematics: in any human field, half of the significant results come from the square root of the total number of participants. In a group of 100 people, only 10 produce 50 … Read more
“Lo mal fabbro blames lo ferro”. Dante- banquet Once revolutions were made by the poor who took to the streets and overturned the system. Now revolutions are made by the rich – those who are already well off and want to be better off. We could call it: The Revolution of the Satisfied. It is … Read more
From automation to autonomy: when puppets cut the strings Every civilisation has a moment when everything it knew stops working as expected. It is not just a change, it is like someone flips a switch and the past turns into a grainy old movie. Historians tell of epic moments: the birth of agriculture, printing, industry, … Read more
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