How a Rocket Scientist Ended Up Designing Automated Factories On Earth
Every morning I sit down at my computer and work on an idea that could change the world: Automated factories that can grow, like an acorn can grow into an oak tree.
Like any factory, these factories would produce useful products, but they would also make parts and materials for their own expansion. From a starter kit, which I call a "Seed Factory," the factory takes design files and turns them into more equipment. It does this by copying existing parts (replication), making parts for new equipment not in the starter set (diversification), and making larger versions of what it already has (scaling).
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