Negative Space: ice
- The domestication of frozen water
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Even the poorest people have ice today. Ice is given away free to dilute already-cheap sugary drinks. You can buy it in huge bags outside at gas stations and convenience stores, and when it melts you can get some more. In medieval times, you had no such luxury. Ice came in the winter and left in the summer. Storing it was time-consuming, expensive, and even dangerous.
- Rebel Without a Modem
- How does America’s love of rebels affect the cyberspace cowboy?
- Revolution: Home Refrigeration
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Nasty, brutish, and short. Unreliable power is unreliable civilization. When advocates of unreliable energy say that Americans must learn to do without, they rarely say what we’re supposed to do without.
