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The Long Ping, episode by episode

Every long-form episode in the verified catalogue, each with its own page and a direct link to the film on YouTube. The Shorts live on the blog page as trailers for these arguments.

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The Long Ping, Episode 1: What Survives 10,000 Years

Episode 1: if everyone maintaining your world disappeared tonight, what would still be true in ten thousand years? Five hours on preservation, memory, and designing for the carrier, not the receiver.

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Episode3h 27m

The Long Ping, Episode 2: The Water Wheel Problem (Chapters 1-10)

Episode 2 in full, the corrected edition: the water wheel, the grid it built, and the long argument between centralised and distributed power.

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Film3h 43m

The Grid Problem | The Long Ping

Episode 3 of The Long Ping, in full: three hours and forty-three minutes on how power grids fail, why they fail the way they do, and what the failures teach about every other system we depend on.

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