Alexis Madrigal: Uncanny Los Angeles
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This document discusses the history of energy technologies in Los Angeles from 1857 to 1957. It highlights how in the late 19th/early 20th century, the city utilized a variety of energy sources including human, animal, wind, solar, and early electric technologies powered by coal, gas and hydroelectric power. It then discusses how oil and gas became dominant in the early 20th century, and how nuclear power first provided electricity to the Los Angeles power grid in 1957. The document argues that choices between technologies are often marginal, and that both new and old technologies can coexist for a time.
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Karl Mannheim s famous distinction: ideology is a set of wish-images intended to evolve the existing order into a better one…Utopia represents a wish to break with bonds of the existing order, to overturn it for a new reality….The Utopia of the ascendant bourgeoisie was the idea of freedom. (Text p. 61).
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CiARRET KEIZER l:ALL:-; r o n A liENERAL :-;TRIKE
HARPER'S MAGAZINE/OCTOBER 2007
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DISASTER CAPITALISM
The New Economy of Catastrophe
By Naomi Klein
THE RIVER IS A ROAD
Searching for Peace in Congo
By Bryan Mealer
ADMIRAL
A story by T. C. Boyle
Also: John]. Sullivan and Wyatt Mason
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$6.9SUS $7.9SCAN
E S SAY
DISASTER
CAPITALISM
The new economy of catastrophe
By Naomi Klein
Only a crisis--actual or perceived-produces real change. When that crisis occurs,
the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around.
-Milton Friedman
Tee yearsago,when I wasin Bagh-
dad on assignment for this magazine, I paid an early-morning visit to
Khadamiya, a mostly Shiite area. An Iraqi colleague had heard that part of
the neighborhood had flooded the night before, as it did regularly. When we
arrived, the streets were drenched in slick green-blue liquid that was bub-
bling up from sewage pipes beneath exhausted asphalt. A family invited us
to see what the frequent floods had done to their once lovely home. The walls
were moldy and cracked, and every item-books, photos, sofas-was caked
in the algae-like scum. Out back, a walled garden was a fetid swamp, with a
child's swing dangling forlornly from a dead palm tree. "It was a beautiful gar-
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the Iran-Iraq War. There was the first Gulf War, when U.S. missiles struck
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cility. Next came the years of U.N. sanctions, when city workers could not
replace crucial parts of the sewage system. Then there was the 2003 inva-
sion, which further fried the power grid. And, more recently, there were com-
panies like Bechtel and General Electric, which were hired to fix this mess,
and which failed.
Around the corner, a truck was idling with a large hose down a manhole.
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addressed by private actors. The difference is that in the Green Zone, the
Naomi Klein's most recent article for Harper's Magazine, "Baghdad Year Zero,"
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- Overview of Jupyter Notebooks, an open-source web application for creating and sharing documents with live code, equations, visualizations, and narrative text.
12. Jupyter Notebooks with Code Examples
- Hands-on examples and code snippets in Jupyter Notebooks to help you implement and test anomaly detection models.
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Bram Verhoef, Head of Machine Learning at Axelera AI, presents the “How Axelera AI Uses Digital Compute-in-memory to Deliver Fast and Energy-efficient Computer Vision” tutorial at the May 2024 Embedded Vision Summit.
As artificial intelligence inference transitions from cloud environments to edge locations, computer vision applications achieve heightened responsiveness, reliability and privacy. This migration, however, introduces the challenge of operating within the stringent confines of resource constraints typical at the edge, including small form factors, low energy budgets and diminished memory and computational capacities. Axelera AI addresses these challenges through an innovative approach of performing digital computations within memory itself. This technique facilitates the realization of high-performance, energy-efficient and cost-effective computer vision capabilities at the thin and thick edge, extending the frontier of what is achievable with current technologies.
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Alexis Madrigal: Uncanny Los Angeles
- 1. Uncanny Los Angeles A trip through an alternative energy past that already existed
- 7. The Electric Railways When you add traffic, commute times then and now are pretty much a wash. Only back then, they were far more energy-efficient.
- 8. California Power and Light
- 11. The Wave Motor Vs. The Airplane
- 12. Wave Motor Vs. the Airplane “ If God had intended that man should fly he would have given him wings… The airship business is a ‘fake’ and has been since it was started two hundred years ago… Never has the human mind so persistently evaded the issue, begged the question, and ‘wrangling resolutely with the facts,’ insisted upon dreams being accepted as actual performance.” --REAR ADMIRAL GEORGE W. MELVILLE Chief Engineer of the U.S. Navy, 1901 "Probably no other single subject, save that of navigation of air, have so much thought and energy been expended as upon the conservation and utilization of the power exerted upon our sea-coasts by the force of waves.” -- MCBRIDE’S MAGAZINE, 1903
- 13. Why Old Green Tech Is More Than a Curiosity The line between absurdity and breakthrough is hard to see. The initial choices between technologies are usually marginal. “ Old” and “New” technologies happily coexist.
- 14. Who Killed the Electric Railway? General Motors! “ The electric streetcar… did not die a natural death: General Motors killed it.” -Bradford Snell Bribes, WalMart-style supply chain strong arming, direct purchases of railways to destroy them. Progress! Rail service was a bad monopoly. People wanted to live in the ‘burbs. Greater transportation flexibility. Traffic in downtown core. The car was a better technology.
- 15. Who Killed the Electric Railway? Technological change happens through people and organizations, not through some mystical zeitgeisty process. Neither group recognizes there is no inherent reason for either railways or automobiles to win. Both represent different kinds of progress. That’s because Progress, with a capital P, isn’t real.
- 16. Who Killed the Electric Railway? “ It’s what happened” becomes “ It was what was supposed to happen” or “It had to happen.” Technological momentum has a way of erasing the past, of making us forget that there were alternatives, and that decisions had to be made. Contingency starts to seem inevitable.
- 17. All technology is social technology. Apple mattered. The details, the context, the marketing, the specific embodiment of an idea made material matters. Users co-create products, too.
- 18. Los Angeles 1957 The very first electric power was fed onto the grid from a reactor at the Santa Susana Field Laboratory.
- 19. Learning from Nuclear “ The bottom line is that there was no compelling economic case for large public or private investments in commercial nuclear power systems in the 1950s or 1960s.” Steve Cohn, Too Cheap To Meter But there were social reasons: Progress! The Technological Sublime!
- 20. Learning from Nuclear There were scientific reasons: Can we do it?
- 21. Learning from Nuclear There were security reasons: Cold War!
- 22. Learning from Nuclear There were corporate reasons: Nuclear First Mover Advantage Westinghouse, 1973: “Between now and the year 2000, the potential return to Westinghouse, just assuming it maintains its present share of the reactor market, could be $300 billion .”
- 23. Voting on Our Technological Laws Don’t fear the spreadsheet. Social engineer cost. We should decide what the public pays. Small changes in priorities can lead to big shifts. “ The paper-clip is ubiquitous not because it is an earth-shatteringly important technology… There are many ways of holding paper together: pin it, staple it, punch holes and secure it with ‘Treasury tags,’ use Sellotape, put it in a ring-bind or other sort of folder, or bind it into a book. We use paper-clips so much because they are, for many uses, marginally better than the alternatives, and we know this.”
- 24. The Breakthrough Is People Energy priorities have already shifted. Environmentalism has a future-oriented option. The mantle of progress is now worn by greens. Green tech is a political force.
Editor's Notes
- I don’t think we know our technology very well. Or understand how we socially engineer costs, choosing which pieces have to be paid by society and which by the company.
- Oil and gas finds Pipeline buildouts California has never been a coal state Energy abundance assumption
- System plus corporate bad actors Energy efficiency in transportation was not the point Automobile Affordances
- System plus corporate bad actors Energy efficiency in transportation was not the point Automobile Affordances
- System plus corporate bad actors Energy efficiency in transportation was not the point Automobile Affordances
- System plus corporate bad actors Energy efficiency in transportation was not the point Automobile Affordances