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This is exactly what I wanted to see. And it's wild! Consider the fact the you need sugar cane to produce a mouse. Or that there are at least 20 different raw materials and layers …

Cool! This project also had a link to an essay "I, Pencil" [0] on the difficulty of producing a pencil (discussed on HN previously as well [1]). That HN discussion also had a link …

I've been trying to understand how various common objects, say, a light switch or a suitcase, are manufactured if we thought about the entire process starting from raw materials. W…

What would be a good starting point for digging into that 80s stuff, in your opinion?