# 44. Infrastructure and Our Collective Future with Deb Chachra

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Podcast: [IMAGINIZE.World](https://stenobird.com/podcast/imaginize-world-6692985)
Published: 2025-10-18T14:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://imaginize.world/infrastructure-with-deb-chachra/
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## Resource

Deb Chachra is a professor of engineering at Olin College. She works at the intersection of technology and society, with an emphasis on systems, education, design, and materials. (More here) In 2023 she wrote How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World. As she explains on her website, "our infrastructural networks – water and sewage, electricity, communications, transportation, and more – shape our lives, often in ways we don’t even think about. This is a book about lear...

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