< trickle-down tech

~ns

I've used the phrase trickle-down tech in a comment here last month. I completely agree with your points. In the face of political uncertainty and democratic subversion of which I am individually incapable of affecting for the better, I feel like the next best thing I can do is to help the world develop technologically in such a way that there's no alternative but to raise the floor for standards of living.

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~tetris wrote:

I'm of the opinion that most of my ideas come to me from passive reading of other people's ideas that I hadn't fully absorbed in the moment, so I'm almost certain that your post triggered mine.

As for raising standards of living, I genuinely think that the biggest game changer will be 3D printing. The Pandora's box of Pandora's box. Why build a house from scratch when you can copy your neighbour's prototype and modify it slightly to your needs and let it print. I don't know when it's going to happen. My gut says probably not in the next 20 years.