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Average time-to-redundancy: 11.3 months
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October 11, 2028
In 2 yearsMapping utility poles is just high-stakes tourism for the redundant.
Outdoor enthusiast collecting data for the digital void.
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One human is building a game about fighting back.
Real-time pole telemetry for the grid.
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Surveying outside plant infrastructure involves documenting fiber paths, measuring pole attachments, and verifying clearance heights. It is manual field data collection awaiting inevitable spatial automation.
The one thing AI can't do
You can visually confirm if that tangled mess of copper is actually live.
Your enemy, your name, your date. Post it.
Step by step, from the first quiet change to Deprecation Day.
Day 10
Historical paper maps are scanned into vectorized datasets for the AI to ingest.
Month 6
High-resolution LIDAR drones begin surveying pole height and clearance without leaving the hangar.
Month 12
Automated algorithms identify infrastructure defects faster than a human surveyor can blink.
Month 18
Field data automatically populates fiber route design software, eliminating the need for local verification.
Year 2 · D-Day
All field surveying is handled by satellite and drone swarms; human presence is now purely legacy.
What you cost, what the machine costs, and what you get on the way out.
Per year
Savings: 95%
Zero
Pole climb frequency
99.9%
Data capture accuracy
400x
Survey speed improvement
Your severance
A decommissioned laser scanner and a folding ladder.
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