Sublime

inefficiency and fragmentation served important social, intellectual, and artistic purposes. By imposing what Mark Zuckerberg disdainfully calls friction on the processes of information production, distribution, and retrieval, the specialization of media networks and devices also imposed order on the welter of information that was suddenly pouring

That doesn’t mean that we have to solve huge, overarching issues with huge, overarching solutions. In fact, we need to resist these sorts of solutions, because our landscapes and our technologies are in transition, so we absolutely want to be able to explore, experiment with, and even roll back systems as needed, and to do this in different ways in

granular feedback and the iterative process to improve his work, perhaps a holdover from his math background.

What do people want? How can these desires be fulfilled? How are the desires of different communities balanced? How are the necessary resources distributed? These are political questions, not engineering questions. But in infrastructure, the political and the engineering questions are inextricably linked.