the ruins of the electronic city

I began takeing apart my bike when I was eight or nine years old. I don't know what was so fascinating. I took everything apart, my skateboard, my radio an old TV. Inside the old Tv-set I found a miniature futuristic landscape, with small towns, highways, factories and houses. Everything looked very familiar but just a little strange, some houses looked like big silos. And although there were no people or cars that went around in there and even though the city was now sleeping, I understood that it had just been in a living city. In each house lived an important function, and in the highways the electricity was racing from one place to another.()![KRETS05.JPG] It was so much more complicated and exciting compared to the cities that existed in reality and the ones i could build with my toys. It was the ruins of a magical city. The electronics have always been too abstract for me, physics against it were much easier to understand. As I unscrewed my bike, I could understand more about how it worked only by looking at the parts, and I eventually managed to reconnect the parts to a working bike again. But the ruins of the electronic city remain a mystery to me.