The technologies we use to measure and monitor the Earth have increased the objective scale of the planet and have shown us real pictures of the cosmic abyss that might (should) crack open our little primate skulls, but in doing so have also collapsed the phenomenal scale of our sense of habitat. In its paired world-making and world-erasure projects, the Earth layer of The Stack will have introduced equal measures of numinous insight and atonal banality. <sup>49</sup> Our argument, however, is that like the turn away from geocentrism and toward heliocentrism (still very much an incomplete turn for the superstitious norms of humanist geopolitics), the platformization of the Earth layer will, in net sum, provide for greater “ worlds ” than it erases. That said, the design program ahead is full of twists and turns.
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