H Plus Summit Slides
Marcin will be presenting this 5 minute presentation at the Humanity Plus Summit.
The flavor is high-tech neosubsistence.
Slide 1- Cover
How to Build the World's First, Replicable, Post-Scarcity Resilient Community By Marcin Jakubowski, Ph.D. Presented at the H+ Summit, Irvine, Californa December 5-6
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Many are proposing post scarcity as the way to go. Here is an experiment in practice. High tech neosubsistence - reinvent the wheel by opensourcing the wheel - add modern touch to old stuff.
Imagine if you took all that society has learned to date, and apply it?
Slide 3 - 6 - survival: energy, materials, housing, food, technology
Let's start with land. You might want some clean energy - say from the sun.
It boils down to energy - do we have it? Yes, the sun is the source of all power. The USA use approaches 1000 GW (4kW per person) these days. NASA scientists can tell us that this power can be generated from an area 60 miles on each side. This is about .1% of the area of the USA. Next.
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If we have energy, then we can have materials. Let's turn dirt into advanced civilization.
1. Take clay, and you can smelt aluminum. This is aka advanced civilization.
2. Take sand and you have silicon. This is aka digital age.
It's happening fast.
Slide 5
For technology - here's my favorite example. You can build RepRap - the OS 3d printer - for 300 in parts. It would cost you $10k for a commercial version.
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You have seen notions of cost reduction. Yes. Factor of 30 for RepRap. We have shown similar for CEB press- $2500 in materials. The next competitor is $45000 for a 10 bpm machine, we think we can do 12, and initial tests showed 9.
Well, we do have 6 million people born per month, so we're 'thriving' like field mice in a population explosion.
Slide 7
Next, move to RepLab - the open source fab lab. You may have heard of the fab lab - the lab scale microfactory where they claim you can make just about anything.
