Technology promised to save us effort, then quietly reorganised civilisation around the effort required to sustain technology.
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technological recursion
Tag: dependency networks
Anything we call a system is defined through relation, not contained within itself. Ice sheets, forests, oceans, atmospheric flows, monsoons. These are not isolated components but coupled processes that stabilise one another through ongoing exchange. The jet stream carries heat that shapes ice. Ice reflects light that shapes temperature. Forests regulate moisture that feeds rainfall. […]
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