How Infrastructure Works
Historian Scott Gabriel Knowles proposes that we think of the “deferred maintenance” of public infrastructures as slow-motion disasters, which sustain the oppression of marginalized and underserved populations. 23 Summers, meanwhile, emphasizes the “debt burden on the next generation,” since the cost of fixing the world compounds over time.
Places Journal • Maintenance and Care
The Daily Planet #8: Edwards and Hecht on the Technosphere
Yesterday's Daily Planet was on Peter Haff's idea of the Technosphere. Today's link is a discussion of Peter Haff's ideas between Gabrielle Hecht and Paul Edwards.
Paul has written evocatively about the development of Computing Systems and the Earth Systems Sciences in the (first) Cold War a
... See moreOur current instruments and infrastructures are struggling to cope. Traditional employment contracts enforce rigidity, property rights are divisive and major institutions like the International Monetary Fund only consider narrow, money-centred definitions of value.Developing civic infrastructures such as food forests would reduce strain upon global... See more