Food for thought.
We Live Like Royalty and Don’t Know It [The New Atlantis] – “But when I mentioned how remarkable it was that a hundred-plus people could parachute into a remote, unfamiliar place and eat a gourmet meal untroubled by fears for their health and comfort, they were surprised. The heroic systems required to bring all the elements of their dinner to these tables by the sea were invisible to them. Despite their fine education, they knew little about the mechanisms of today’s food, water, energy, and public-health systems. They wanted a better world, but they didn’t know how this one worked.”
It reminds me of the bit Louis C.K. did on Conan O’Brien about airplane wifi.
And what’s great is this is just the first article of four. Enjoy.