Replacement of cheapest industrial materials
High throughput challenging even cheapest industrial materials
Advanced APM (gem-gum technology) will have extraordinarily high throughput capacity (See: Higher productivity of smaller machinery). Especially when existing microcomponents are just recycled since there is much less energy turnover and consequently much less waste heat to remove). Very high throughput (and chap abundant elements as resource) means that even today's cheapest industrial materials will be challenged in their use case.
This includes materials like:
Complexity comes for free
Also with advanced APM (gem-gum technology) system complexity in products comes for free.
Just like it is the case with 3D printing today.
Cost wise it does not matter at all whether you make a dumb passive structural brick
or a material with a highly intricate active internal structure and functionalities.
One can really integrate almost anything (as long as its miniaturizable):
- computing,
- IO (e.g. touchscreens, shape shift feedback, ...),
- energy management (e.g. solar cells, energy transmission lines, ...)
- or anything else one could think of
No matter what it is. Same mass (of abundant elements) comes with same cost.
Consequences
The consequences of
- extremely high throughput and
- free complexity
at the same time are hardly imaginable.
Imagine streets house walls and furniture plastered with and made out of "computers". "Computers" that can even move if you design them to be capable to do so Which is not necessarily advisable. See: self limitation for safety. (Deliberate use of passive structures may increase response time in case of hacking attempts.)
