User:CharlesC/About me

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. Although I'm not a pure neophile as there is plenty of stuff I appreciate from the past too.

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 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.

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.