Short Attention Span

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8. Thabks

This struck me in its wiki summary:

In the weeks and months after the attack, sporadic news gathered through an old but still-functioning vacuum tube radio receiver show that many major cities of the U.S. are in ruins and vast regions of the Continental United States are labeled by the government as off-limits "contaminated zones."

One of the most objectionable parts of modern technology is how little you need to understand to understand how things work.

I thought years ago that we would be a saner society if you had to know how things work in interesting ways (which to me almost always must involve the physical world not software. I code when I have to but I never found software very interesting) to use them. Our phones and computers are too easy to use. Or difficult to use entirely in annoying ways. Not cool puzzle solving but more like a zillion captchas to prove you are not a robot.