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@johnleonard@mastodon.social
2026-02-13 12:40:01

The gulf between the utopian (or sometimes dystopian, all publicity being good publicity in an attention economy) visions propagated by those at the bleeding edge of technology and the – for want of a better word - mundanities of real-world implementations has never been wider, as our latest research shows.

@vosje62@mastodon.nl
2025-12-30 11:45:18

9/ Porta Alpina - Beatrice Trussardi Foundation
beatricetrussardifoundation.co
'Like all good utopian visions, the “Porta Alpina” station began with a proclamation for transforming the way that Swiss passengers would travel. Its creator, the engineer Eduard Gruner, published an essay in 1947 that imagined how people in the year 2000 would travel the country by trains that took them deep into the belly of the earth, under the mountains, to a great underground station ...'

@losttourist@social.chatty.monster
2026-02-01 09:10:44

Finally, a valid use may have been found for generative AI.
This site will take an architect's beautiful, utopian image of what their wonderful new building/park/plaza will look like, and the AI will try to imagine what it will actually look like on a cold, damp, miserable winter's day.
#AI #GenAI #architecture
antirender.com