
#380 – Neil Gershenfeld: Self-Replicating Robots and the Future of Fabrication
Lex Fridman Podcast
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The Minimum Building Blocks for a Technological Civilization
A series of books by Gingory outline how to create a personal industrial revolution through in-situ resource utilization (ISRU)./nNASA uses ISRU to create a civilization on other planets./nThe minimum building blocks for a technological civilization are roughly 20 parts./nAmino acids have basic properties but can be combined to create more complex components./nTechnology only needs 20 properties to create all necessary parts.
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