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In high school we visited a landfill for class, I'll never forget what it felt like to stand there with miles of waste surrounding me, getting compressed to eventually turn into a grassy hill or burned. Later that same day we visited a recycling plant, on top all the bales of heavily compressed plastic, the operator told us that only 5% of all plastic of all plastic ends up getting recycled. All of a sudden, I became viscerally aware of the weight of everything I consumed - the plastic straw with my smoothie, the plastic spoons with my takeout, the plastic bags overflowing my drawers. It was around the same time, my high school became part of the pilot to digitize classrooms, claiming increased environmental friendliness because we were now on the cloud and paper free. If we were to get granular, it was likely true, but it consequently made cloud computing seem so effortless. In reality there is an immense physicality to the internet, connections made through underwater sea cables, dat

Organic web The Organic Web: A Thesis in Progress By Connie Liu - This is a version one, fully interactive version coming soon~ Part 1: Decay In high school we visited a landfill for class, I'll never forget what it felt like to stand there with miles of waste surrounding me, getting compressed to eventually turn into a grassy hill or burned. Later that same day we visited a recycling plant, on top all the bales of heavily compressed plastic, the operator told us that only 5% of all plastic of all plastic ends up getting recycled. All of a sudden, I became viscerally aware of the weight of eve

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