Sunday, May 22, 2011

Robots beget egalitarianism

Mobile bots, web bots, all bots; they attack bottlenecks and open up avenues for newer transactions, done in smaller, specialized batches. Especially true for local transport bots, that can move about a square mile very cheap. The lower transaction cost always opens up opportunity for a local skilled artisan to outperform a wider monopoly.

The robots themselves are very socialist among each other, rarely voting and highly regulated. These bots are almost always open sourced, or built on standards with open source solutions. So, even their ownership and manufacture is subject to local artisan competition. Once a bot is released on a mission, it leaves owner control anyway, now subject to system traffic control.

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