Re: <nettime> rage against the machine

we still don't know what happened with B737 Max 8 but this thread seemed as a good one to post references about the machines, automation, people and disasters..

some people some time ago thought and felt that technical innovations should be first made comprehensible in order to convince people to buy them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4JhruinbWc

it took me some time to find what i remembered and what i needed for explaining the concept of techno-cultural moment (totally different story but nvm) and those were the two blog posts jean-louis gassée, once cto of apple and later the founder of beos, after the scandal, around 2010, with prius abs brakes software accelerating the car at the moment when it was supposed to break. ups. (some blog posts one remembers for almost a decade...)

mondaynote.com went through few major redesigns in last 12 years.. none of the advanced searches helped to find it in the archives.. only after a while i realized i could go to wikipedia to check out *when* the scandal happened and then go back hoping gassée was writing about it when it was in the news.. and he did.. archive.org did a good job in archiving and timestamping it...

here are the two blog posts:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100416043943/http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/02/07/soft-brakes-on-the-prius/ ("To summarize: braking isn’t braking anymore, especially in a hybrid. Hitting the brake pedal triggers software processes that involve optimizing kinetic energy recovery while maintaining safety and comfort in a wide range of circumstances, including slippery roads and panic braking. [..] The brake system and engine braking software has been “improved”, yielding better kinetic energy recovery by sacrificing some “classical” braking performance.)

http://web.archive.org/web/20100519034751/http://www.mondaynote.com/2010/03/14/software-and-brakes-part-ii/ (this one is on car differential (great explanation in the video pasted above).. "Over time, “resolution” has increased everywhere: sensors capture more delicate nuances, actuators offer finer control steps, software models of car motion become more detailed and Moore’s Law makes electronics less expensive. That’s why all modern cars feature some permutation of the devices we just discussed. This annoys some drivers who think it deprives them of fun, of the opportunity to sharpen and demonstrate their driving skills.")

On Fri, Mar 15, 2019 at 11:12 AM tbyfield <tbyfield@panix.com> wrote:

>>> On 14 Mar 2019, at 17:43, Morlock Elloi wrote:

>> On 14 Mar 2019, at 20:26, Olia Lialina wrote:

> On 14 Mar 2019, at 21:58, Brian Holmes wrote:

nettime trifecta 🏆 😹

cheers,
t

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