Solar + AI + Robots will create a seismic shift in the economy and society. Let's unpack how some of these changes might unfold. The best part? It's all automatic! Labor arbitrage is dying!
I wonder whether this incorporates how AGI could accelerate solar efficiency and shorten the 9 year solar sovereignty timeline - not to mention battery/energy storage capacity, grid management etc. There may be pockets of innovation-supported locales where your Solarpunk communities spring up quite a bit faster?
So, you have to keep in mind that energy demands will be rising at the same time, including energy demands for solar. So we might need AGI and advanced material science just to keep up with demand. But as they say: Necessity is the mother of invention, and when a nation needs to triple their energy production in a decade... well that's a lot of motivation!
Wonderful. Absolutely. This is the way! Postcapitalism = the natural, kind & conscious evolution of capitalism. The hyper-cosmolocal dynamic open source free modular eco "metasolution". Internets-of- food, energy, tools, bots, vehicles, materials. Custom community design, fabrication, and recycling - especially as nanotech and synthetic biology develops further. Collaboratively abundant gifting/sharing/replication replacing> competitive artificially-scarce commerce/trade/hoarding for most things. Essentials for food, housing, healthcare, education, transportation, dropping to $0 - with help from automation and AI, & land trusts and DAOs. Thanks Dave, as usual.. for your brilliant visions & voice @ the (Gaian) frontier! ✨🌏
Love this on many levels. But labor arbitrage isn’t the only thing that makes for large factories/production centers. Economies of scale are at play too. Do you see these somehow being able to be distributed except in rare/specialized cases mentioned in closing point 11?
And in regard to Amazon, as I was reading this I was thinking Amazon’s delivery/distribution intelligence becomes their superpower in this new age.
I wonder whether this incorporates how AGI could accelerate solar efficiency and shorten the 9 year solar sovereignty timeline - not to mention battery/energy storage capacity, grid management etc. There may be pockets of innovation-supported locales where your Solarpunk communities spring up quite a bit faster?
So, you have to keep in mind that energy demands will be rising at the same time, including energy demands for solar. So we might need AGI and advanced material science just to keep up with demand. But as they say: Necessity is the mother of invention, and when a nation needs to triple their energy production in a decade... well that's a lot of motivation!
Wonderful. Absolutely. This is the way! Postcapitalism = the natural, kind & conscious evolution of capitalism. The hyper-cosmolocal dynamic open source free modular eco "metasolution". Internets-of- food, energy, tools, bots, vehicles, materials. Custom community design, fabrication, and recycling - especially as nanotech and synthetic biology develops further. Collaboratively abundant gifting/sharing/replication replacing> competitive artificially-scarce commerce/trade/hoarding for most things. Essentials for food, housing, healthcare, education, transportation, dropping to $0 - with help from automation and AI, & land trusts and DAOs. Thanks Dave, as usual.. for your brilliant visions & voice @ the (Gaian) frontier! ✨🌏
Finally labor arbitrage being discussed. I still remember asking you this question about arbitrage on a community youtube call, few months back.
This would potentially also bring in the element of population migration from different regions in the transition stage.
I must have missed that comment
Thank you for your presence and sharing your thoughts regularly!
Love this on many levels. But labor arbitrage isn’t the only thing that makes for large factories/production centers. Economies of scale are at play too. Do you see these somehow being able to be distributed except in rare/specialized cases mentioned in closing point 11?
And in regard to Amazon, as I was reading this I was thinking Amazon’s delivery/distribution intelligence becomes their superpower in this new age.
In many cases economies of scale still apply, but global supply chains just become infeasible when you can have expert labor anywhere.
This is a brilliant essay.