Kalyani Tupkary

From the Near Future Laboratory, the definitive book describing in accessible and vivid detail the origins, evolution, and practice of design fiction: “ the practice of creating tangible and evocative prototypes from possible near futures, to help discover and represent the consequences of decision making.”

There's a history of clumsily trying to conceal infrastructure that goes way further back than cellphone towers.

But while nature may mete out time’s passage in these horological devices, it takes human observation of the heavens to set them. Even the most precise atomic clock must be periodically tweaked to account for variations in the earth’s rotation. Some clocks, however, are tuned more directly to nature.