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Living in the sprawl,
dead shopping malls rise
like mountains beyond mountains
and there's no end in sight
I need the darkness,
someone please cut the lights.
— the Arcade Fire
An image has been circulating around the Facebook timelines of my Montana friends. It's a satellite photograph of North America at night, a deep navy blue blanketed with a spiderweb of pale yellow lights. The east coast is almost completely lit up — science fiction author William Gibson named this "The Sprawl, " a densely populated mass of human suburban development stretching from Boston to Atlanta. Moving west from th...
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