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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.

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Alberto Romero's avatar

Thank you Brett! That's my exact purpose - that you take away something yet push back on my ideas from time to time!

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Wazy's avatar

So the message may be: Don’t let AI become your boggart… ridicullus!

And sir, I admire your writing💙

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Alberto Romero's avatar

🙏🏻🙏🏻

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Michael E. Zimmerman's avatar

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.

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Alberto Romero's avatar

Sci-fi authors, the precognitive historians of the future!

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