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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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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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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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A production line that is more a library for making finished products, 'bespoke' crowded from the lexicon by the normalcy of vast parameter spaces, prototypic flexibility bounded by the safety and refinement of production-integrated design analysis. A Clippy for all seasons.
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