Essential reading on this subject: Neal Stephenson’s essay “Mother Earth Mother Board” (Wired, 1996). https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://www.wired.c

Essential reading on this subject: Neal Stephenson’s essay “Mother Earth Mother Board” (Wired, 1996). https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/ And really his whole superb novel Cryptonomicon. But that’s 1,000 pages.