Mario Noioso: Data, AI and Technology Culture
Technology Culture
GTA 6 Is Not a Game Launch. It Is a Scheduled Outage of the Attention Economy
Netflix hosted the preview, Hollywood is scheduling around it, PwC wrote a strategy memo. What it means when one piece of software can pause everything else on November 19.
Technology Culture
What Kirkus Reviews Said About My Book, Including the Part I Agree With
Kirkus Reviews has read Who Owns Memory Owns the Future and filed its verdict: Get It. The praise is welcome. The criticism is the more useful half.
Technology Culture
Will AI Replace Programmers? What Three Waves of Automation Taught Me
No, and yes. AI will not replace the programmer; it is replacing most of what programmers spent their day typing. I have watched this happen twice before, at IBM and…
Essay · Data & AI
12 Books on Data and Power
Twelve books, eleven from Wired's seasonal thirty plus one of my own, on how compute, data and the state became one conversation.
5 Nov 2026
Talk · MongoDB.local Milano
Data Modeling Beyond Tables
Essay · Public Sector
The Reverse Turing Test
From the imitation game to Article 50 of the AI Act: we went from rewarding machines that fool us to forcing them to unmask themselves.
25 Aug 2026
Field guide · Trailer
Single View, in 42 seconds
Technology Culture
Technology becomes culture when it acquires memory. Archive →
2026Essay
Ocarina of Time Remake: Nintendo Is in the Memory Business
The remake lands on Switch 2 as a rapturous review and a holiday-quarter bet. Nintendo's real product is a memory, re-embodied and resold.
2026Essay
Thirty Years Inside the Memory Machine
I spent a career building the systems that remember on our behalf. Then I asked who owns them. Why I wrote Who Owns Memory…
2026Hi-Fi
So You Bought a Used NAD 306
A used NAD 306 is a bargain and a responsibility. What to check, what to replace, and what to leave alone.
2026Hi-Fi
The Space Between Sounds
Vinyl and high-resolution streaming look like opposite worlds. When the system gets out of the way, they converge. Not in sound. In space.