and the commercial drives connected with it, not a performant solution of the city, but an irretrievable heterogenesis of ends such as that, at times dystopian, of the no longer city or the stupid city24 or the city of the excluded25 provocatively denounced, and not wrongly, by careful observers. On one perspective we can, however, certainly push, and that is that technologies are neither good nor bad, but neither are they neutral; and that, precisely because of this, it is up to all of us to decide how to use them for our common welfare. 26 On the other hand, as the wise Thumbelina of the gentle age of the Parisian philosopher27 has long been implying, we will soon reach a point of no return, and this will most likely happen when we understand that Artificial Intelligence before being a new form of intelligence is an unassailable new form of man’s ability to act. 28 So, if it is plausible to presume that this scenario will soon come to fruition, then it is equally reasonable to think that it is not a mistake to predispose oneself from the outset to assume the intellectual posture that is best suited to those who wish to articulate the tourism issues of the city of the future in the sign of that Anglo-Saxon design at large. A design that, as is well known, organizes the future in the Popperian awareness of the need to select from the infinite possibilities therein and, therefore, a design that does not merely weigh the few things as they are now, hic et nunc, before our eyes as much as it does to imagine the evolutions of the many things from how they are fantasized in our minds today to how they might be realized in our society tomorrow. 29 After all, the future is now, and if we do not want to be caught unprepared, it is always worth keeping in due consideration the visionary words spoken by accelerating the innovation of communities, M. Carta, Cities Augmented. Ten barrier gestures for the future, Il Margine 2021. 24 On which see R. Koolass, Texts on the (no longer) city, Quodlibet Habitat 2021. 25 I refer to F. Ciaramelli, The City of the Excluded, ETS 2020. 26 M. Kranzberg, Ethics in an age of pervasive technology, Routledge 2020. 27 M. Serres, op. ult. cit. 2016. 28 L. Floridi thinks so with acumen, in Ethics of Artificial Intelligence. Developments opportunities, challenges. Raffaello Cortina Editore 2022. On the indelible signs that this process will produce in any case in our public and private lives, see, however, also the critical insights of L. Perilli, Artificial consciousness, Il Saggiatore 2025. As regards, however, the more specific ethical and legal references that this innovation generates in automated administrative action, and to what extent these references must be translated into the need for a legal status of the production and use of artificial intelligence which the decision maker must comply with, see the timely and useful work of G. Terracciano, I.I.A. (administrative artificial intelligence) and jurisdictional review, in Amministrativ@mente 2-2022. 29 As emerges from the lucid pages of H. Simon Reason in Human Affairs, Il Mulino 2019. 169 SMART CITIES AND TOURISM
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