the complaint box

The medium is the message. The medium is also the problem. Somewhere right now, a person is typing &ldquo;data centers are destroying the planet&rdquo; into a device that routes through three of them. The tweet hits a load balancer in Virginia. Gets replicated to a cache layer in Oregon. Serves back to 40,000 followers via a CDN with nodes in six countries. Total round trip: 200 milliseconds,…