We conflate automation (which to me is mainly about routine decision-making) and artificial (non-muscle) powering. You can have passive or muscle powered automation. Eg a tortilla press automates hand rolling or flattening without artificially powering it.
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High-tech ambient or human-power should be more of a thing. Eg. Hand-cranked flashlights and radios. Bonus points for disintermediating electricity entirely. Like long now clock is ambient temperature variation driven iirc.
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Wonder how much human energy fuels obesity and useless and tedious exercise rather than work.
If you eat an average of 100 calories too much/day. Works out to 5W/human. About 0.116 kWh/day. Not much given 50+ kWh/human/day but it might have leveraged effects 🤔
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