Christopher Mims on Nostr: 9/ To sum it up, Vonnegut was right. People love to disrupt old industries, and build ...
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To sum it up, Vonnegut was right.
People love to disrupt old industries, and build anew.
But you can’t just tear out the world’s power distribution infrastructure, for example.
If we are serious about making our planet livable, we have to collectively become as passionate about care and maintenance as we are about the shiny and the new.
More in this week’s mini-feature on “maintenance tech” in WSJ:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/inspection-robots-infrastructure-ebb4172c
To sum it up, Vonnegut was right.
People love to disrupt old industries, and build anew.
But you can’t just tear out the world’s power distribution infrastructure, for example.
If we are serious about making our planet livable, we have to collectively become as passionate about care and maintenance as we are about the shiny and the new.
More in this week’s mini-feature on “maintenance tech” in WSJ:
https://www.wsj.com/tech/inspection-robots-infrastructure-ebb4172c