Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But all those materials? They're *also* infra problems. We've spent millennia ...
But all those materials? They're *also* infra problems. We've spent millennia treating *energy* as *scarce*, despite the fact that fresh supplies of it arrive on Earth with every sunrise *and* every moonrise. Moreover, we've spent that same period treating *materials* as *infinite* despite the fact that we've got precisely one Earth's worth of stuff, and fresh supplies arrive sporadically, unpredictably, and in tiny quantities that usually burn up before they reach the ground.
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