His book is an engaging reminder that, cyber-Utopianism aside, the internet is as much a thing of flesh and steel as any industrial-age lumber mill or factory.

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But the unwieldy dimensions of these new buildings will turn their migration into a slow-motion race in which nearly three-dozen units will lumber to the city from a factory in Berwick, Pa.

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Growing up, Salinas sold honey in jars door-to-door and spent weekends playing in stacks of lumber for cabinets made at the family factory.

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It's also boosting factory output of housing-related goods, such as lumber.

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