Automated infrastructure describes having most of the key regional infrastructure needed for an advanced society, running by itself in the background. These systems have the capacity to self-maintain and self-repair with little or no human intervention, keeping themselves in the condition and within the parameters set by the engineers. Systems such as transport networks, power generation, water treatment plants, mines, material processing plants and other industrial systems. They will be developed using principles of
open design, and being fully automated enable a number of things: they can be scaled up to provide everything that the global population requires with ultimate flexibility, and people are freed up to do things that
people, rather than machines, are good at, and
want to do.
