That's a great point, and I've wanted to read SLaS before, I guess this settles it. I think that might explain why people think huts are interesting and HVACs

That's a great point, and I've wanted to read SLaS before, I guess this settles it. I think that might explain why people think huts are interesting and HVACs are boring. There's technology that exists at the human scale, like Tupaia's map or saying things are "a 3 day's walk away", and technology that exists far beyond the human scale, like a Cartesian map of a continent or saying things are "15 miles away".