What Annalee Newitz thinks about infrastructure

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American journalist and science fiction author; editor-in-chief of io9 from 2008 to 2015; author of the novels The Terraformers and Automatic Noodle and the nonfiction Stories Are Weapons.

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1. 27 Jul 2026, 19:13 UTC

   Our readingRome did not fall for one special reason; its power waned for ordinary reasons like inequality and bad leadership.

   Their wordsFYI there is no "real" reason why Rome "fell." Its power waned for the usual, mundane reasons: widening gap between rich and poor, inability to maintain infrastructure, incompetent leadership, pointless wars, endless persecution of marginalized groups who performed vital labor, etc.

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3. 20 May 2026, 03:41 UTC

   Our readingGoogle’s AI search is killing the open web its own business depends on.

   Google

   Their wordsWith its new AI-based "search," Google is literally killing the infrastructure that its entire business is built on.

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