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 nostr:npub1zdp33shl69xr0uq3x8n5gsjykq9upycwh6nqm02c3f6x0frrn0dq42vqv8 The archeologist and writer Ronald Right, in his 2004 Massey Lectures described our technology and the resources used to create it as, "like climbing a ladder while kicking the rungs out under us as we go." I think about that a lot, and whether it's possible to build a comfortable efficient technology that doesn't do this. Steam punk?