Earth enters an era of automated megaprojects as costs drop
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-08-24
As energy, intelligence, machinery, and labor become cheap, prohibitively expensive projects become ordinary. Millions of autonomous machines could build housing, factories, desalination plants, power infrastructure, and entirely new cities, operating 24/7 to collapse construction times.
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