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How solar energy got so cheap
How solar energy got so cheap 

In the middle, all that is solid melts into sameness, such that smart home devices resemble the buildings they surveil, which in turn look like the computers on which they were algorithmically engineered, which resemble the desks on which they sit, which, like the sofas at the coworking space around the corner, put the mid in fake midcentury modern. And all of it is bound by the commandment of planned obsolescence, which decays buildings even as it turns phones into bricks.

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How Amazon Became World's Largest Buyer of Renewable Energy | Time
How Amazon Became World's Largest Buyer…

Hacking the linear, progressive mode of the Techno-Heroic, the Carrier Bag Theory of human evolution proposes: ‘before the tool that forces energy outward, we made the tool that brings energy home.’ Prior to the preeminence of sticks, swords and the Hero’s killing tools, our ancestors’ greatest invention was the container: the basket of wild oats, the medicine bundle, the net made of your own hair, the home, the shrine, the place that contains whatever is sacred. The recipient, the holder, the story. The bag of stars.

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Submarine Cable FAQs
Submarine Cable FAQs
Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! | Next-Gen Real-Time Demo Running on PlayStation 5
Unreal Engine 5 Revealed! | Next-Gen Re… 
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Sound Metrics ARIS HD Sonar 
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Water-shedding technology, SCAPE, Confluence: Portal to the Point
Water-shedding technology, SCAPE, Confl…
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