[parksy]

I am so used to articles with a meaningless header image that I totally skipped that the map they're talking about is right at the top of the page. My brain filtered it out. After going back and looking at it, I think the map is pretty cool and would be great if it were dynamic and navigable in a leaflet container or something of the sort.

But I agree I got tired of the prose about a third of the way in. I appreciate it, and can tell what they are getting at but I think regular hacker news readers are in a demographic that is already keenly aware of the interconnected nature of raw material extraction, supply chains, applied and theoretical sciences etc. I mean it's in our nature to process these thoughts because we're always looking for some missing connection, a forgotten or undiscovered niche, (edit to add, not to forget the human and environmental impacts of all of this as another user mentioned) etc etc.

I do think there's plenty of folk who might see this as eye opening, especially the average consumer for whom devices just materialise out of money. I imagine the philosophical angle would be more thought provoking for someone who hasn't sat down and thought about it a whole heap.

(second and final edit to add - on more thought I think if they made the map dynamic, and put the prose on little markers, that would be way more impactful to me at least as I think the spatial context would add a ton of value).