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| − | I'm in my early thirties, live in England and currently work as a senior research engineer for Dyson Ltd.
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| − | I have always been interested in the what becomes possible with new technology and new thinking. Although I'm not a pure neophile as there is plenty of stuff I appreciate from the past too.
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| − | ==The train of thought that led me to this creating this website==
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| − | I enjoy imagining the evolution of a concept until some sort of ultimate conclusion or until 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.
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| − | 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 giving us what we need. As long as we have enough raw materials and energy people can have what they need.
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