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| − | I'm in my early thirties, live in England and currently work as a senior research engineer for Dyson Ltd. I have always been interested in the what becomes possible with new technology and new thinking. It is wonderful when new methods cull lots of complexity and enable things that were not previously possible. But I'm not a pure neophile, I have a huge appreciation for pre-digital era | + | I'm in my early thirties, live in England and currently work as a senior research engineer for Dyson Ltd. I have always been interested in the what becomes possible with new technology and new thinking. It is wonderful when new methods cull lots of complexity and enable things that were not previously possible. But I'm not a pure neophile, I have a huge appreciation for pre-digital era methods and would actually be quite happy living a simple rural life... |
==The train of thought that led me to this creating this website== | ==The train of thought that led me to this creating this website== | ||
| − | I enjoy imagining the evolution of a concept until some sort of ultimate conclusion or | + | I enjoy imagining the evolution of a concept until some sort of ultimate conclusion is reached or I run out of imagination and can't possibly think what might come next, and the subject of automation was one I often thought about. I ended up musing on the comparison of some fictional highly automated economy to a biological ecosystem such as a jungle that provides a rich variety of goods with little attention. An obvious question is what will ultimate automation enable and how will it change things. The economics becomes rather interesting I think. |
The plants grow by taking material from the soil and the atmosphere and combining it with energy from the sun and a whole hierarchy of organisms feed off them. Simplistically, a highly automated economy does a similar thing - taking material from the ground and using energy from the sun (and other sources) to produce goods and power that people make use of. It is like a hi-tech jungle providing for us. As long as we have enough raw materials and energy people can have what they need. | The plants grow by taking material from the soil and the atmosphere and combining it with energy from the sun and a whole hierarchy of organisms feed off them. Simplistically, a highly automated economy does a similar thing - taking material from the ground and using energy from the sun (and other sources) to produce goods and power that people make use of. It is like a hi-tech jungle providing for us. As long as we have enough raw materials and energy people can have what they need. | ||
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Revision as of 23:43, 17 October 2006
I'm in my early thirties, live in England and currently work as a senior research engineer for Dyson Ltd. I have always been interested in the what becomes possible with new technology and new thinking. It is wonderful when new methods cull lots of complexity and enable things that were not previously possible. But I'm not a pure neophile, I have a huge appreciation for pre-digital era methods and would actually be quite happy living a simple rural life...
The train of thought that led me to this creating this website
I enjoy imagining the evolution of a concept until some sort of ultimate conclusion is reached or I run out of imagination and can't possibly think what might come next, and the subject of automation was one I often thought about. I ended up musing on the comparison of some fictional highly automated economy to a biological ecosystem such as a jungle that provides a rich variety of goods with little attention. An obvious question is what will ultimate automation enable and how will it change things. The economics becomes rather interesting I think.
The plants grow by taking material from the soil and the atmosphere and combining it with energy from the sun and a whole hierarchy of organisms feed off them. Simplistically, a highly automated economy does a similar thing - taking material from the ground and using energy from the sun (and other sources) to produce goods and power that people make use of. It is like a hi-tech jungle providing for us. As long as we have enough raw materials and energy people can have what they need.
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