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Re:Welcome to Nomehenge, Home to Alaska’s Soviet-Era Antennas by decasia on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @09:14AM (#27604178)
It's interesting to think about how one generation's tech becomes the next one's landscape, the next one's heritage, the next one's cultural horizons.

Picture this: 25 years after we no longer need to maintain huge data centers, after that infrastructure has become obsolete (let's suppose it will), there will start to be tourism. "Hey come look at this gigantic facility, now falling into ruins, that an obsolete corporation called Google once kept so secure."

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Re:Welcome to Nomehenge, Home to Alaska’s Soviet-Era Antennas by BuildTheRobots on Wednesday June 23, 2021 @12:40PM (#27606516)
I had one of those odd realisations a few years ago when hiking in the UK. A large swathe of this outdoor "natural" beauty is actually remenants of industry: All these dry-stone walls, landscaping and hedges everywhere are not natural at all, though as they've been there for centuries (in some cases), they're very much part of the landscape.

I do wonder what it takes to stop thinking of something as industrial mess and instead as natural.

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