The Time Before AI: A cronicle of sixty years acceleration, and everything that cannot be accelerated

Born in Modena in 1964, the author grew up when the world still moved at a human pace. In sixty years he crossed every threshold of the digital age -- mainframes, the first software houses, photography, electronics -- and watched speed quietly erase the layers that once gave time its thickness. The Time Before AI is a memoir-manifesto that starts from a small thing: his father's Formica chair, and a world that walked at walking speed. From there comes the question that runs through the whole book -- what can be accelerated, and what cannot? Memory, attention, presence, the slow work of becoming someone. Part chronicle, part confession, written with disarming irony (yes: a book about the time before AI, written with AI), it is an invitation to feel again the weight of the here and now -- because the here and now is the result of everywhere-before-now.

Pages: 104, Paperback, Independently published