Apple Vision Pro cancellation would be a triumph of reality

Creating a new category of product requires more than a sense of mission, it means meeting people's actual needs.

Thoughts: AI lock-in, alogocracy and Route 66

All gloomy stuff, I'm afraid.

Culture thoughts: recent reading, listening and viewing

The Vivisector, by Patrick White As I said to the friend who recommended this: I can see why White is forgotten. Self-evidently great. Alarming. Wish I Was Here, by M. John Harrison An 'anti-memoir'. More proof that Harrison should be hailed as one of Britain's best

Thoughts: current reading

Whitechapel Gallery: Documents of Contemporary Art: The Magazine and Science Fiction Art theory texts. Signs from the Future | Columbia University PressWe are constantly being warned, but we seldom heed warnings. Cautioned about authoritarian leaders, climate change, technological dystopias, or other catastr... | CUPColumbia University PressSantiago Zabala Ballard is my native culture.

This is Europe’s chance to stop being a tech passenger

A small French government outfit is dumping US tech. Jason Walsh suspects this is the start of a continental trend.

Thoughts: soul rot, your delusion assistant and proof my job does not exist

Some interesting reading, this week.

Correlative computation

There's no winning on this one, but I propose we re-name AI anyway

The scroll is over

As the world grows more chaotic, people are retreating from social media. New research explains the numbers but the reasons run deeper, says Jason Walsh

Culture thoughts: Recent reading and listening

Recent reading and listening

Don’t tell me a story

Why does every business want to tell us about themselves, all of a sudden?

Computer says ‘yes’

Using AI to win arguments does not sharpen our thinking, it insulates us from challenge, and in the workplace, that is a serious problem

Broadcom vs. Brussels shows what sovereignty actually means

It is now very late in the day, but a fully open software, and even hardware, stack is still worth pursuing

Silicon Valley

Tech culture is fundamentally unserious

Just as moral philosophy requires a model of mind we don’t possess, so AGI requires an understanding of consciousness and intelligence we equally lack.

gamification

Cybersecurity is not a game

Whatever about social media companies’ methods for attempting to keep users glued to screens, very concept of citizenship is at odds with an infantile playschool approach to ontology and epistemology