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<https://calculatingempires.net|Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500>

It's an enormous map of illustrations of various advancements toward, within, and around computers. Note that it's wildly horizontal. I tried exploring it a bit on my phone but found that unsatisfying. I recommend using the largest monitor you've got.

Yeah, it covers quite a bit of ground _around_ computers, dipping into colonialism and military history, etc. But that's (A) besides the point and (B) not at all besides the point, come on!

love to see PL on the interfaces - infrastructure border. that sounds about right. tbh I have a harder time with this one than the 'resource flows comprising the cloud' map, also from Crawford's group. the diffuse way that ideas stripped out of their scenes flow into each other is disorientating.
<https://anatomyof.ai/>

this is amazing -- it had me at talking drum

Wow! I want to see this filling an entire wall like in an art exhibit.

Wonderful.  Reminds me of Neal Stephenson's _Baroque Cycle_ _+ Cryptonomicon_.