NOMOTO TRANSIT

A History of the AI Dream

Throughout history, humans have imagined and strived to create artificial beings with intelligence. From ancient legends of mechanical servants to modern deep learning systems, the story of artificial intelligence (AI) spans millennia. This script traces that

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CHAPTER 00 / THE WET SEAT

One passenger is missing.

The seat is wet. It has not rained. Someone says the passenger was carrying an empty birdcage.

A dreamlike journey through the human condition: moral philosophy from Thales to Arendt and Camus, psychology, science, film, and AI as a new test of old human questions. There is no required route.

N LOCAL / THE HUMAN WEATHER

NOMOTO MEDIA / THE HUMAN CONDITION, AI & MORAL PHILOSOPHY

Where do you want to go?

Select a station.ORIGINAL HOMEPAGE →BROWSE ALL WORKS →

NOMOTO SOUND CARRIAGE

NOMOTO MUSIC YOUR MUSIC LOOP MUSIC THE CONDUCTOR / STATION ANNOUNCEMENTS CONDUCTOR

FIELD RECORDING LINE / FIRST ARRIVALReal transit doors now sound during travel. Longer stations, tunnels, crowds, and voices arrive as separate city-and-era layers.DOOR RECORDING / STEPHAN / COLOGNE / PUBLIC DOMAIN

ROUTE MUSIC READY

TRANSFER / DEEP ARCHIVE

INFINITE SHELVES

Choose a body of work—or follow the object that bothers you.

NOMOTO Transit is an interactive audiovisual journey and requires JavaScript. The complete earlier NOMOTO publication remains available in the old-site archive.