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X. Allard: As long as there is a network,
could this personal module have
the intelligence to link up with other
modules, in a bunch, on a train to,
at some point, become a group object?
Ora Ïto: Yes exactly, on condition that you are
free to choose the module, according to your
taste and means. The new mobility should
free us from constraints and not impose others.
X. Allard: What role does technology
play in your vision?
Ora Ïto: It’s necessary to invent a system
that is easy and useful for users even
if the interior is extremely complex.
The train, like a spoon, remains a train.
But it can be constructed and deconstructed
through new technologies. With networks,
scale statistics and interfaces, we can collect
and organise common ideas and intentions.
With artifi cial intelligence and Internet,
you can know, for instance, instantaneously,
how many people are going somewhere.
How many like what type of music,
read which newspapers, and so on…
and adapt your offer to their personality.
This may seem Orwellian but if it is to have
a better life, why not? Take the debate
on video street surveillance, for example,
it doesn’t bother me a bit if the police
have a lot of fi lms of me entering the baker’s
to buy sweets, if at the same time
this prevents real violence!
I believe a lot in awareness, the intelligent
interface which in the end knows us better
than we do ourselves and which will offer
us what we really need or want at time T,
when our emotions, tiredness or stress
prevent us from knowing it ourselves….
The train of the future will eventually be
a train which comes to us. Bringing
the collective to the individual and not
the opposite as is the case at the present.
This is what interests me!
X. Allard: You are talking about major
technological leaps here!
Ora Ïto: In mobility, technologies should
not make all that much difference. The system
works in such a way, however, that when
a brand has a technology it keeps it for itself
for business reasons. This is a real pity!
It would be much simpler, wouldn’t it,
if the same technology and the same energy
were shared and accessible to everyone?
The ideal situation would be for the major car,