Re: [ox-en] Germ of a new form of society or germ of a new form of business?
- From: Graham Seaman <graham seul.org>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 13:32:47 -0500 (EST)
tOn 12 Dec 2003, Rich Walker wrote:
I come from a long background of looking at the long-term impact of
robotics. Two things appear quickly in that thinking:
1) General-purpose humanoid robots should be able to do most of the
things people do as jobs.
2) General-purpose production machinery can construct things in batch
sizes as small as 1 with gains in lifecycle efficiency using designs
from anywhere.
Can you enlarge on 2)? (links, references, explanation...) (also
explanation of the term 'lifecycle efficiency')
I had the (hopefully mistaken!) idea that production that was efficient in
terms of not wasting materials (ie. one aspect of being not too bad for
the environment) necessarily involved large volumes of identical products
(identical including 'same thing with a different skin', or 'one of 6
permutations of the same set of parts' for the puproses of this sentence).
Thanks
Graham
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