Forget everything you know about family cars. The BMW i3 Neue Klasse Touring is not just an electric version of the 3 Series – it is a complete redefinition of how we will drive, charge and enjoy the road in the coming decade.
Jan Macarol
If someone had told me that a 2.8-ton Swedish cathedral could dance around corners like a stock hatchback, I would have told them to change their psychiatrist. But Volvo has done the impossible with the Volvo EX90. They have created a car that is both an engineering marvel and proof that sometimes even Swedes are in a hurry for lunch.
Democracy is dying because the flow of information and the fourth branch of government are dying. The story of the end of media did not begin with the arrival of artificial intelligence or its boom in 2022, but with the emergence of social media. Let me explain why democracy may be at risk and what is happening right now to the media landscape that I have been a part of for the past twenty years. The story is downright terrifying.
Why should we raise red flags in Munich and Stuttgart? Because this electric "shooting brake" offers, at half the price, what the European giants have forgotten in their bureaucratic slumber - audacity, passion and a technological pace that borders on absurdity.
Let me explain. If you still believe that the definition of a smart person is someone who gets all the points in math in school and can recite definitions from a textbook by heart, I have bad news for you. That train derailed a long time ago.
Your precious logo and that vaunted 'brand story' you've poured thousands of euros into to make you feel important? I have bad news. In five years, they'll be worth exactly nothing. When artificial intelligence starts shopping for people, it won't be looking for your expensive prime-time TV commercial. It'll just be looking at raw data. And if the algorithm can't see you, you're dead in business. That's the demise of brands - caused by the AI algorithm.
If aliens were to descend to the sunny side of the Alps today and observe our daily lives, they would write the following in a report to the Galactic Federation: "This is a tribe that believes that wealth is created by laying Knauf and that the pinnacle of civilizational achievement is a vacation allowance."
The year is 2026. While DARS and government buildings are still sweating with excitement over the drawing of a third lane on the Styrian motorway and dreaming of hectoliters of new asphalt on the same route, which has already been dug up a hundred times, I have the unpleasant feeling that I am watching a repeat of a very bad historical drama. This national enthusiasm of ours for the expansion of the motorway at a time when technology is redefining the very essence of movement is exactly as if in 2007, just a day after Steve Jobs showed the world the first iPhone, the Nokia board of directors had called a crisis meeting, at which they would have decided with all seriousness and strategic enthusiasm how to squeeze two additional keys onto the physical keyboard for faster typing. A completely missed point that will serve as an example of expensive myopia in economics textbooks. The third lane of the motorway is a way back in time. Let me explain why!
History will judge us by one simple fact: were we the last generation to die of stupidity, or the first to cheat death? Science is finally "hacking" aging. And not with cannabis ointments or meditation on Šmarna gora, but with the brute power of artificial intelligence, genetic scissors and - you won't believe it - crypto financing. Will artificial intelligence defeat death?!
While we in Slovenia are passionately polishing the brass on the Titanic and fighting over deck chairs, Silicon Valley has long since switched to the Enterprise and turned on warp drive. Biology is becoming software, aging is just a "bug" in the code, and in the meantime we are collecting corks and waiting three years for an inspection, convinced that the pinnacle of civilization is a properly completed travel order. Read why most of our jobs today are just shuffling digital paper before extinction and why what is coming is not just a storm, but a completely new climate in which you will be wet to the bone without an umbrella. We are at the point of the singularity of progress - let me explain.
I bet you 100 euros that you're reading this on your phone when you should be doing something else. Maybe you're at work, maybe you're on the toilet, maybe your kid is drawing on the wall in the corner of the room and you're too busy scrolling to notice. Don't worry, you're not alone. You're just another lab rat in the biggest experiment in human history. And spoiler alert: you're losing
Let's be politically incorrect, but brutally honest, because we don't have time for deception anymore. For all of you who still believe that we will solve the future with circles where we all sit in a circle and pass around a "talking stick", I have bad news for you. In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), democracy as we know it in old, tired Europe is dead. They just haven't told it yet. Dictatorship is the new black... Let me explain!