Paul Manzano
Essays, mostly opinions on AI from the operating side. Through Akston Industries I hold legacy manufacturers, in precision work and branded consumer goods, a national workplace technologies integrator, and the AI intelligence companies that grew out of operating them.
The Legacy Residents
Notes from a legacy resident
How the city rebuilds for its new majority
The city’s currency was human minutes. The mint has closed.
The city cannot tell its residents apart
What happens to a place built to be seen, when the residents stop looking
The first markets in history where neither party is a person
In a city at machine speed, being human becomes a performance problem
The last essay in the series, on what was never activity
Field Notes
What AI answers did to one small company’s search traffic, with the actual numbers
The block, charge, or welcome decision
What the machine readers actually change on a shop floor
What machine reading changes in deadline document work
The Census
An annual count of humans and machines in the digital city
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