You know, there are just so many aspects of everyday life that I have treated as if they were magic for my whole life.

You know, you turn on the tap and water comes out.

You know, you plug something into the wall and suddenly it works via electricity and like where the electricity well came from the wall.

You know, or the internet.

You just pluck the internet out of the air.

The internet is all around us, and we pluck it out of the air, and then we have access to it,

and there it is, and all the world's knowledge is right there.

And of course, none of this is true, right?

This isn't actually how the world is at all.

Actually, all of these things require just massive amounts of outlay and effort and continuous maintenance and

coordination in order for them to seem like magic, right? Like the water that comes out of my tap

when I turn on the water is actually coming from the Owens River in a valley several hundred

miles away from me via a long aqueduct, which by the way

has been dynamited by by water rebels basically in decades past to try to stop the city of Los Angeles

from taking this water. But you know, and it's the same thing, it's the same thing with the

internet, right? Like there is a, I can pluck the internet out of the air because there is an actual cable that comes from the

power line back behind my house and, and is strung over the little yard between my house and

my landlord's little area and then goes into a hole in my wall. And, you know, if, like, if something happens to that wire, like, I don't have the internet anymore.

And that wire has to connect me via other wires to the entire world.

It doesn't, it just is wires.

There's no, the internet doesn't float in the air.

The internet is a very complex system of wires.

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