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Originally Posted by Tomkat
"If there is a greater reason for being grateful to live in the twentieth century than the joy of stepping from the dog's breath air of a really hot summer's day into the clean, crisp, surgical chill of an air-conditioned establishment, then I can't think of it."
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Well, of all the developments of the last hundred years or so air conditioning would be pretty far down the list. If we built our buildings properly we'd probably find it easier to keep them cool / warm when appropriate anyway.
I'd take the internet over air conditioning, although it's fair to assume a good proportion of the world's server rooms wouldn't operate at all without air con.