We are standing at the end of the Extractive Era. For the last century, the global physical infrastructure grid has operated on a singular, broken loop where centralized monopolies extract resources from the earth, burn those resources to create power, and return toxic emissions and waste to marginalized communities. Then, they charge those same communities a premium to rent the energy back.... My G, this here is crazy work! ​Silicon Valley has attempted to solve this by optimizing software. ...

The End of the Extractive Era