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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. It is wonderful when new methods cull lots of complexity and enable things that were not possible previously. But I'm not a pure neophile, I have a huge appreciation for pre-digital era machinery and would actually be quite happy living a simple rural life!
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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 providing for us. As long as we have enough raw materials and energy people can have what they need.
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