Interchangeable parts technology in the Industrial Age was about making unique lumps of matter indistinguishable, and then slapping on locally unique-enough serial numbers to redistinguish them, via bits that provided functionally sufficient addressability in a local namespace.
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This trend, of separation of material and social functions of technology at the lowest level attainable — time/energy costs at the level of bits and atoms — is something like the separation of church and state for our times. For better or worse, the future will be shaped by it.
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is this any different from the 19th century ideas of use-value and exchange-value? is physics the only input into the price of the material part of a thing?
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