Infrastructure at a scale that starts displacing other infrastructure: China fusing its datacenters into one machine over a national optical backbone, US private datacenter construction crowding out municipal projects, Europe buying back in with fab subsidy.
The other half is stranger. MIT compiles speech into furniture and DARPA proposes a compiler for nucleic acids — matter as a build target. The issue ends on the Cosmist note it will return to: a model trained only on Victorian London as a first step toward conquering time rather than space.