From Starlink and Ukraine to everyday technology, technocratic overextension exposes a dangerous paradox: civilisation increasingly depends on systems that (mostly) function as intended, but whose continued availability is controlled elsewhere, by political and ideological interests we may not share.
Context: Will Musk’s Starlink satellites lead to Kessler syndrome? An eventual Kessler syndrome occurring is surely a matter of entropy and statistical inevitability, regardless that even Low Earth Orbit space is genuinely “big”. That is – there are exponentially many more disordered system states than ordered ones and so the accumulation of more components and […]
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