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Go Ask Alice

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Technology shrinks to grow, and grows to shrink.

Go Ask Alice The Editors 1. “Being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing,” Alice tells the Caterpillar. Just think how the internet feels! It’s big enough to make the world feel small, and small enough to fit in the palm of your hand. It dissolves huge chunks of data into particles of light, then flings them across filaments of optical fiber roughly the width of human hair. Those filaments link continents—and the most intimate regions of our lives. What else runs under the Pacific Ocean and also keeps you company on the toilet? The internet’s vastly different scales don’t just coe

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