The discreet charm of the infrastructureless

Early in the morning in a European city, I awoke and wondered for a moment where I was. The room was totally black apart from a small glow from the face of my Casio Lineage watch lying on the bedside table. The luminous dial had absorbed sunlight during the day and was now giving off gentle light in the night; enough brightness to read the time. Infrastructureless #1: sunlight + chemistry = glow…