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Re:World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant Delivers Power ... by e12e on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @02:57PM (#6446539)
> the age of increasing decentralization

While I'd love to see more decentralization, that's not really what's happening, is it? Urbanization is AFAIK stronger than ever, fewer grow their own food (or even have the ability to do so), institutions are getting more centralized, not less...?

We're even breaking the Internet, giving people asymmetric connections forcing them to depend on centralized services -- so what exactly are we decentralizing?

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Re:World’s Largest Solar Thermal Power Plant Delivers Power ... by ferdo on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @04:14PM (#6447015)
> what exactly are we decentralizing?

In another generation or two, people will have the ability to design and print their own circuit boards. Technology itself is becoming decentralized which will have the longterm effect of decentralizing society.

Less than 200 years ago, railroads were the height of technological achievement and the most powerful centralizing force in society, industry and government.

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