Our infrastructure appears more and more like magic these days. Especially the stuff involved in moving information. As an engineer, I notice that the vast majority have no idea how any of their stuff works, or seems to care. 75 years ago, this was not the case.
I’ve also noticed that there is very little sense of the impending downshift in infrastructure, as energy becomes less easily available. There’s a tendency of the futurists to think that because the efficiency of computing machines has increased by a factor of a million in a few decades, that the efficiency of power generation/storage/transmission should increase as well. Sorry, but it doesn’t work like that.
