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Marco Ciappelli🎙️✨:verified: :donor:

#HappyWeekend — and happy thinking, too. 🤔 🤖

📚🎙️ The Hybrid Species — When Technology Becomes Human, and Humans Become Technology

A fresh transmission from my Musing On Society and Technology newsletter:

We used to build machines to serve us.

Now we build them to complete us.

So… what happens when the line between us and them disappears?

This is the follow-up to my Robbie piece — where #Asimov made us wonder if trust could be earned by a robot that didn’t even speak.

Well, now the machines do speak. They pretend to understand us. And we pretend they do, too.

But here’s the twist: maybe we’re not just surrounded by machines — maybe we’re slowly becoming one. Or better yet: when carbon and silicon don’t just coexist, but converge… maybe something new is emerging.

A hybrid species.

Not science fiction — just evolution, with a bit of attitude.

No panic. No utopia either. Just me thinking out loud, wondering what’s coming — and whether we’re wise enough to carry the best of ourselves into whatever comes next.

No time to read? Let my AI companion TAPE3 read it to you — it’s got a voice and just enough sass to make it weirdly charming.

👇 Newsletter link and audio version in the comments.

If you find these musings worth your time, share them with someone who likes to think sideways. And follow both my newsletter and podcast — there’s a lot more where this came from. 🤘😬✨

Cheers,

Marco

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www.linkedin.comThe Hybrid Species — When Technology Becomes Human, and Humans Become TechnologyWe once built tools to serve us. Now we build them to complete us.
Marco Ciappelli🎙️✨:verified: :donor:

Wishing a hashtag#HappyWeekend to all Humans… and non-humans.

It’s Newsletter Time! 🤓✨
“Robbie, From Fiction to Familiar — Robots, AI, and the Illusion of Consciousness”

I recently revisited Robbie, the first of Asimov’s iconic robot stories.

I first read it as a teenager in the ’80s, when robots lived in factories and AI belonged in science fiction. Back then, Robbie felt distant. The idea of forming an emotional bond with a machine? Pure imagination.

Today, that story feels… familiar.

We now live in a world where machines talk back. Generative AI writes, simulates empathy, pretends to understand us — and often, we play along. Meanwhile, Robbie never spoke, never faked understanding, yet somehow earned more trust than the machines we surround ourselves with today.

In my latest Musing on Society and Technology, I reflect on how different it feels to experience Asimov’s vision in the age of hashtag#GenAI, illusion, and the subtle performance of understanding.

The lines between fiction and reality? Between trust and simulation? They’re blurring fast — and maybe we’re not wise enough to notice it happening.

Go ahead, read this article — or simply listen to it, there’s a podcast version linked in the newsletter.

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Enjoy, share, subscribe… and stay human — or not. 🫢
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www.linkedin.comRobbie, From Fiction to Familiar — Robots, AI, and the Illusion of ConsciousnessA new transmission from Musing On Society and Technology Newsletter, by Marco Ciappelli No time to read? No problem. Let my Artificial Intelligence companion, TAPE3, read it to you — it’s got a voice, and a bit of attitude too.
Amin Girasol

This interview by @savetz with Rick Reaser, published under the auspices of @ataripodcast, is well worth a listen!

Rick talks a mile a minute and drops in gems about how the first generation of #GPS satellites used a pair of 4-bit bit sliced ALUs as their CPUs (not dissimilar to the CPU design on the #CenturionComputer that Dave from Usagi Electric has been working on?) and the next generation of GPS satellites ("block II") used a radiation-hardened microprocessor from Texas Instruments.

Rick describes #Commodore64 computers being used at #Rockwell to run test harnesses for the GPS satellites.

He also describes pushing the #Atari8bit to the max of its capabilities for productivity tasks like #WordProcessing, #Database, #Spreadsheet and communications applications.

Terrific stuff.

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ataripodcast.libsyn.comANTIC The Atari 8-bit Podcast: ANTIC Interview 443 - Rick Reaser, Current Notes MagazineRick Reaser, Current Notes Magazine's 8-bit Editor   Rick Reaser was the 8-bit Editor of Current Notes Magazine, a popular magazine dedicated to the Atari computers. He began in 1992, and wrote a column called 8-Bit Tidbits. Rick used his Atari 8-bit computer exclusively through his college years and for programming for grad school. He was also president of P3ACE - Pikes Peak Poke Atari Computer Enthusiasts - a user group serving the Colorado Springs area.   This interview took place on February 11, 2023.                
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