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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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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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Deep learning fits in there somewhere. A way to make bespoke NFT things? Nonfungibility as an industrial service.
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I think of civ as stocks and flow of energy, material and info/computation. 1st rev, coal+textiles+science, 2nd steel, oil, industrial chem, 3rd computers/internet, 4th seems related to processing/action in unstructured domain, bits pushing atoms.
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