This: "We are the future of the past. We’re also the past of the future."
And this: "But progress—the impermanence of things—with its maddening ability to thwart our plans, reveals itself not as a motionless image but as an endless video. One we’re fated to watch only in fragments."
And this: "...we are subject and object of our creations."
I don't always agree with you, Alberto (including whether humanity will survive long enough for any of us to have distant offspring), but I keep subscribing because you give me new thoughts to think and new word nets with which to hold important ideas.
A thoughtful reflection about how the passage of time alters our perception of technological innovation. The transition is often turbulent and anxiety-provoking, because we don't understand how a given innovation (train, AI, etc) will alter the world and ourselves--technology and its consequences are beyond our ken and control. Its up to today's sci-fi authors and filmmakers to create scenarios in which people in the future look back upon what people underwent during a transition like our own, when AI and AGI increasingly dominate our conversations and imaginings.
This: "We are the future of the past. We’re also the past of the future."
And this: "But progress—the impermanence of things—with its maddening ability to thwart our plans, reveals itself not as a motionless image but as an endless video. One we’re fated to watch only in fragments."
And this: "...we are subject and object of our creations."
I don't always agree with you, Alberto (including whether humanity will survive long enough for any of us to have distant offspring), but I keep subscribing because you give me new thoughts to think and new word nets with which to hold important ideas.
Thank you Brett! That's my exact purpose - that you take away something yet push back on my ideas from time to time!
So the message may be: Don’t let AI become your boggart… ridicullus!
And sir, I admire your writing💙
🙏🏻🙏🏻
A thoughtful reflection about how the passage of time alters our perception of technological innovation. The transition is often turbulent and anxiety-provoking, because we don't understand how a given innovation (train, AI, etc) will alter the world and ourselves--technology and its consequences are beyond our ken and control. Its up to today's sci-fi authors and filmmakers to create scenarios in which people in the future look back upon what people underwent during a transition like our own, when AI and AGI increasingly dominate our conversations and imaginings.
Sci-fi authors, the precognitive historians of the future!