M. FiorettiFeb 9, 2023

"This decade has seen an explosive series of breakthroughs in the field misleadingly known as #ArtificialIntelligence.."

(said BEFORE #chatgpt, in "Lying to the ghost in the machine")

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2021/03/lying-to-the-ghost-in-the-mach.html #innovation #machineLearning #bigData #gpt-3 #iot #peakComplexity

M. FiorettiJan 28, 2023
Ten years ago, we were Guinea Pigs, in the literal, lab-animal sense of the word. These days, we still are, I assume http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-rosner/hazardous-chemicals_b_3175796.html #airPollution #chemistry #drugs #environment #health #peakComplexity
You Are a Guinea Pig

A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them. And there's a reason why you've never read about it in the newspaper or seen a report on the nightly news.

HuffPost
M. FiorettiJan 25, 2023

Interesting read from 2007:

"#Debt. Americans Search For fulfillment and Enlightened Economics" http://enlightenedeconomics.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/%e2%80%a2-debt-americans-search-for-fulfillment #degrowth #downshifting #peakComplexity

• Debt. Americans Search For fulfillment

Enlightened Economics
M. FiorettiJan 25, 2023

The Epic Story of Container Shipping (no, not the #linux ones, the REAL, hard ones!)

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/07/07/the-epic-story-of-container-shipping #containers #economy #finance #globalization #peakComplexity #sustainableDevelopment

The Epic Story of Container Shipping

If you read only one book about globalization, make it The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, by Marc Levinson (2006). If your expectations in this…

ribbonfarm
M. FiorettiJan 20, 2023
(from 2007) "#Debt. Americans Search For fulfillment and Enlightened Economics" http://enlightenedeconomics.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/%e2%80%a2-debt-americans-search-for-fulfillment #downshifting #peakComplexity
• Debt. Americans Search For fulfillment

Enlightened Economics
M. FiorettiJan 18, 2023
Found this in 2013: #nuclearPower Prevents More Deaths Than It Causes" comments ten years later is welcome http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/web/2013/04/Nuclear-Power-Prevents-Deaths-Causes.html #climateChange #coal #health #nuclearWaste #peakComplexity #peakEnergy
M. FiorettiJan 18, 2023
How the internet has been making us poor for a while now http://qz.com/67323/how-the-internet-made-us-poor #automation #downshifting #jobSecurity #peakComplexity #unemployment #universalBasicIncome #work #workEthic
How the internet is making us poor

Everyone knows the story of how robots replaced humans on the factory floor. But in the broader sweep of automation versus labor, a trend with far greater significance for the middle class—in rich countries, at any rate—has been relatively overlooked: the replacement of knowledge workers with software.

Quartz
M. FiorettiDec 23, 2022
Q: "Are we at peak technological complexity?" MY answer: we reached that point 20/30 years ago, the sooner we simplify, the less stress we'll endure. What is YOUR answer? https://thehonestsorcerer.medium.com/peak-complexity-81137c76754b #peakComplexity #downshifting
Peak complexity - B - Medium

A few weeks ago I wrote about the cost of complexity. I’ve came to the conclusion then, that technological complexity seems to be very close its apex. It will probably keep increasing still in the…

Medium
M. FiorettiDec 21, 2022
Resource Insights: Things do not have to run out for their scarcity to become destabilizing https://resourceinsights.blogspot.com/2021/10/things-do-not-have-to-run-out-for-their.html #downshifting #greatReset #rawMaterials #peakStuff #peakComplexity
Things do not have to run out for their scarcity to become destabilizing

Economic cornucopians who believe "innovation" and "substitution" will solve every constraint on the resources needed for mode...

M. FiorettiDec 15, 2022
The Epic Story of Container Shipping http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/07/07/the-epic-story-of-container-shipping #containers #economy #finance #globalization #peakComplexity #sustainableDevelopment
The Epic Story of Container Shipping

If you read only one book about globalization, make it The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger, by Marc Levinson (2006). If your expectations in this…

ribbonfarm