For practically so long as browsing has existed, surfers have been obsessive about the seek for the right wave.
Whereas this hunt has taken surfers from tropical coastlines to icebergs, as of late that search could happen nearer to house. That’s, at the very least, the imaginative and prescient introduced by builders and boosters within the rising business of surf swimming pools, spurred by advances in wave-producing know-how which have lastly created synthetic waves surfers truly need to journey.
However there’s an issue: a few of these swimming pools are in drought-ridden areas, and face fierce native opposition. On the core of those fights is a query that’s additionally on the coronary heart of the game: What’s the price of discovering, or now creating, the right wave—and who should bear it? Learn the complete story.
—Eileen Guo
This story is from the forthcoming print subject of MIT Expertise Evaluation, which explores the theme of Play. It’s set to go dwell on Wednesday June 26, so in case you don’t already, subscribe now to get a replica when it lands.
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