https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/01/machine-garden-natureless-world/621268/
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Saturday, January 15, 2022
This Is No Way to Be Human - The Atlantic
...we need to be more mindful of what this technology has cost us and the vital importance of direct experiences with nature. And by "cost," I mean what Henry David Thoreau meant in Walden: "The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run..." Alan Lightman
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