Superstar infrastructures

Do you leave an offering in thanks for your Internet connection every morning? Do you praise the impromptu supply chain formed by the felicitous cooperation of many, and the technical support that sustains the services thanks to which your grandmother’s groceries can be delivered? Were you aware that the hot water streaming from your shower doesn’t appear by magic? Then, you are ripe to join the highly select group of infra proponents. Invisible so long as the sailing is smooth, infrastructures offer a revealing barometer of our societies’ ability to adapt in times of crisis. Fated to meet with overload or obsolescence, they are now attesting to our ability to bounce back, as well as to our dumbfoundedness in those first few days when we had to grapple with the unforeseeable.