Technology Flattening Natural Cycles

To flatten the physical evidence of natural cycles is a quieter ambition than conquering nature, and a more thorough one. The conqueror leaves a battlefield; the leveler leaves a smooth surface on which nothing seems to have happened at all. A heated room in February, a peach on the shelf in January, a city that burns at the same wattage at three in the morning as at noon—none of these present…