Joe Weisenthal

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Joe, I am going to send you a link.

You're going to open it on your laptop, which we have expressly for this purpose, and tell me what you see.

I know.

We've never been so prepared for a podcast as to have a link ready to go.

Yes.

Oh, okay, good.

Yes, that's the right answer.

Yeah, so I've been looking at these maps, and they look remarkably like shipping lanes, even though upon further reading, it turns out that subsea cables do not precisely follow actual major shipping lanes.

But since most of them are going to and from a major economic center, a city or something, they look a lot like shipping lanes.

And the reason I bring this up is because I think with everything technological nowadays, whether it's AI or the basic internet, there's a tendency to think of it as this very ephemeral digital presence in our lives.

But of course, as we've been discussing on a couple of podcasts recently, there is an incredible physical architecture, which is the source of all these things, whether it's subsea fiber optic cables that kind of look like shipping lines or

Or massive data centers that cost a lot of electricity and commodities to produce.

Yeah.