A friend writes:
A hundred years from now when humanity is locked out of all space access for the next ten thousand years due to Kessler Syndrome, and people ask “why did Americans launch a million vanity satellites in the 21st century?” and the answer turns out to be “billionaires were mad about pronouns in bio.”
The film Gravity can be read as an allegory for how culture works, and actor–network theory is just another name for Rube Goldberg.