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civilization's favorite lie: that space is a spreadsheet if you draw enough lines on it.
means a grid is a network of evenly spaced lines or units that turns chaos into coordinates you can point at.
from from old english grid(iron), the cooking rack of parallel bars, borrowed by mapmakers and engineers once they needed a word for lines-that-cross-lines.
manhattan plan1811 commissioners grid pre-drew the city before it existed
power gridone continent-wide machine synchronized to the exact same frequency
roman originlegion camps used cardo and decumanus, grids as military discipline
pixel truthevery screen you own is just a grid pretending to be smooth
for instance
manhattan street grid — 1811 plan flattened hills to lock in 2028 blocks
kyoto grid — 794 ad heian-kyo copied chang'an's checkerboard layout exactly
texas electric grid — ercot runs isolated from the rest of the us on purpose
mondrian paintings — 1920s reduced the entire world to grid plus primary colors