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

Neri, Umberto; Neri, Tiziano

ISBN 13: 9798184011059

Published by Independently published, 2026

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Time Before AI: A cronicle of sixty years of acceleration, and of everything that cannot be accelerated
• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication Date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798184011059
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.