Marco Ciappelli🎙️✨:verified: :donor:<p>🎙️ Here is what in my news today! :)</p><p>A new transmission from Musing On Society and Technology</p><p>🌀 From Cassette Tapes and Phrasebooks to AI Real-Time Translations</p><p>There’s something beautifully awkward about trying to understand someone in a language that’s not your own.</p><p>I’ve been dreaming of real-time translation since I was a kid — not flying cars, not robot butlers (though I’d take one to fold laundry). Just the idea of truly understanding someone, in their language.</p><p>Now, with AI-powered translations in <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> Meet, we’re there.</p><p>It’s seamless. Flawless. Magical.</p><p>And then… it sucks.</p><p>Like, existentially, beautifully sucks.</p><p>Because while machines can now speak for us, we may be forgetting how to actually understand each other.</p><p>As a proud Gen X analog soul, I remember the rewinds, the mixtapes, the Maxell cassettes, the static. I felt language — in the waiting, the effort, the emotion.</p><p>Now? Everything’s fast. Clean. Automated. Translated. But at what cost?</p><p>This isn’t just about tech. It’s about humanity, connection, and the spaces in between. We don’t live in 0s and 1s — we live in the gray, the glitch, the hybrid.</p><p>🧭 Read (or listen to) the full story here — narrated by my <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> sidekick, TAPE3, who has a decent voice and way better pronunciation than me 😅:</p><p>👉 <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/7079849705156870144/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">linkedin.com/newsletters/70798</span><span class="invisible">49705156870144/</span></a></p><p>Radio version? I meant podcast?</p><p>Here 🎧 <a href="https://redefiningsocietyandtechnologypodcast.com/episodes/from-cassette-tapes-and-phrasebooks-to-ai-real-time-translations-machines-can-now-speak-for-us-but-were-losing-the-art-of-understanding-each-other-a-musing-on-society-technology-newsletter-written-by-marco-ciappelli-read-by-tape3" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">redefiningsocietyandtechnology</span><span class="invisible">podcast.com/episodes/from-cassette-tapes-and-phrasebooks-to-ai-real-time-translations-machines-can-now-speak-for-us-but-were-losing-the-art-of-understanding-each-other-a-musing-on-society-technology-newsletter-written-by-marco-ciappelli-read-by-tape3</span></a></p><p>✌️ Stay curious and mispronounce a few words, it is ok.</p><p>— Marco</p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Translation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Translation</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/TechnologyAndSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TechnologyAndSociety</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/DigitalHumanity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalHumanity</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Storytelling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Storytelling</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/GenX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenX</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/AnalogVsDigital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnalogVsDigital</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/CulturalConnection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalConnection</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Language</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/HybridSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HybridSociety</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/learning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>learning</span></a></p>