Not crazy about the term ‘4th industrial revolution’ but getting increasingly intrigued by the class of things it points to, which now includes mRNA vaccines. Kinda groping about for the essence now. The Hunting of the Meme is on.
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Software eating the world sorta kicked off the process but feels like covid+climate might be what finishes it
Word cloud: decentralization, dematerialization, biologization (organification?), bespokization (not customization/personalization), fat-lean yinyangery...
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Stackification, edgification, cloudification, desinification (sorry China, spofs bad), batterification, nanofication, supply chain liquefaction, platformization.
I have an Onion Talk right here.
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Precision but not in mass manufacturing sense. In bespoke sense. Nanometers for all tastes.
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Something like this hopeless oversimplification?
First revolution: Power
Second revolution: Efficiency
Third revolution: Connection
Fourth revolution: Precision
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When I find the right meme for this I will be happy
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All the commodities/intermediates shortages right now somehow fit this. It’s a deeper kind of scarcity dynamic developing due to some deep stack rebalancings in progress. Metamorphosis underway.
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I think automation is a more important factor than precision. 3d printing is clearly 4th generation..... but its not precise.
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Deep learning fits in there somewhere. A way to make bespoke NFT things?
Nonfungibility as an industrial service.
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Ooh g-code for proteins
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This is getting closer. I think you can think of mRNA as gcode for proteins.
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Something like this hopeless oversimplification?
First revolution: Power
Second revolution: Efficiency
Third revolution: Connection
Fourth revolution: Precision
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