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The only solution is to all start subsistence farming
Have been planting iphones for a few months now, nothing has sprouted yet
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Manufacturing all the chips in one city in one country,
You make a good point here. Incredible that a couple of years of missed Typhoons in one area can have such a profound global effect.
Over 50% of the world's semiconductors are produced by the same company in the same country.
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The only solution is to all start subsistence farming
There'll be a global seed shortage no doubt.
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Centralisation in the fast moving digital age is dangerous. It just doesn't scale. Massive single points of failure which the global economy relies on are dangerous.
Even in the online world: Last year a massive amount of the internet went down for a few hours. Day before yesterday Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram went down for 6 hours. People rely on a lot of this tech to communicate.
IMO we need protocols that turn all our phones into little web servers so the internet is an actual network, not just a massive data centre in California. We also need to invest in 3D printing, high tech city agriculture etc so it is possible for every community to be sustainable individually. I hope technology advances towards that world.
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Global economy doesn't mean diversified economy, in fact I think we're seeing the opposite of that now that things are failing. Manufacturing all the chips in one city in one country, relying on just a few places for gas/petrol etc. is showing how fragile everything actually is.
The only solution is to all start subsistence farming