Similar to our habit to neglect materiality of internet infrastructure and information technology, shipping industry is rarely represented in popular culture. Rose George calls this condition, “sea blindness” ... The most severe costs of global logistics are born by the atmosphere, the oceanic ecosystem and all it contains, and the lowest paid workers. [†]From the material used to build the technology enabling contemporary networked society, to the energy needed for transmitting, analyzing, and storing the data flowing through the massive infrastructure, to the materiality of infrastructure: these deep connections and costs are more significant, and have a far longer history, than is usually represented in the corporate imaginaries of AI.[See Nicole Starosielski, The Undersea Network (Durham: Duke University Press Books, 2015) isbn.nu, worldcat.] [†]
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Domestic infrastructure Amazon Echo Dot (1) Texas Instruments DM3725 Digital Media Processor(2) Micron MT46H64M32LFBQ 256 MB (16 Meg x 32 x 4 Banks) LPDDR SDRAM (3) Samsung KLM4G1FEPD 4GB High Performance eMMC NAND Flash Memory (4) Qualcomm Atheros QCA6234 Integrated Dual-Band 2x2 802.11n + Bluetooth 4.0 SiP (5) Texas Instruments TPS65910A1 Integrated Power Management 1C (6) Texas Instruments DAC
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(1) National Semiconductor LP55231 Programmable 9-Output LED Driver (x4)
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Submarine Cable Infrastructure
Aprox. 300 Submarine communication cables
Submarine Cable
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