@dredmorbius @benhamill that is what is called in the history of technology a side effect of broadening of `technological system`, where differemt techs depend on each others parameter. Look at germany and frace, both infra-tech depend on tripple use: war\mil., trade and feudal power structures
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Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ (dredmorbius@mastodon.cloud)'s status on Saturday, 01-Sep-2018 12:52:11 UTC Doc Edward Morbius ⭕ @syndikalista I'm somewhat familiar with French patterns of comms and transport from WWII history: the French rail lines all headed to Paris. This created several problems. Mostly: all war materiel had to move through Paris before getting to the front, and the Germans could hop on any line and reach the heart of the country.
Telegraph lines tend to follow RR lines, so the patterns are similar.
There's also the Roman roads history, somewhat indicated.
Chthonic Librarian Socialism repeated this.
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