Teleportation Beta :
Long-term potentials of decentralized, local-global manufacturing networks.
Updated: 4 . 9 . 2022
Digtial, decentralized marketplaces like Decentraland, which flourish in the ever-expanding virtual economy, when connected with the proposals of Distributed Design, offer a practical formula to jumpstart a revolution in global manufacturing.
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After a few years of research across several fields of science, media, sociology and history, I’ve come to recognize the possibility that we may be in the midst of a pivotal transformation in industry.
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The are availalbe now, a sort of “perfect storm” of techological advancement in the form of computer generated imaging, 3D printers (the range here is quite vast), data hosting, mixed reality imaging, VR modeling and decentralized digital currencies. There are a host of other factors, including the internet of things, the capabilities of AI and machine learning, economic instability, and mobile-first emerging markets. Anyway, one that does stand out relatively clearly is the prevalance of gaming and the titanic growth of the gaming indsutry. Games like Fortnite and Minecraft present the perfect analogy for this emerging industrial model.
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- The Virtual Economy
Products, methods, experiences and machines can be developed in digital spaces (AR, MR, VR) locally, say by VFX artists in Los Angeles or Melbourne, then the digital object can be “shipped” to another part of the world, say to industrial designers or food growers in Atlanta, via the internet. Printed on-demand, on-site by an array of 3D printers. Then assembled by hand (think Ikea) or by machine (Tesla, Kia?). The process could also work in reverse. Say an artisan in Atlanta or Mexico City makes an object by hand. The object could be digitally scanned, emailed and replicated on site within minutes or hours depending on the complexity of the job. The rendered models could also have a dual life, one for replication physically via 3D printing, and one replicated digitally via AR/MR & VR marketplaces. Individuals and organiztions could then subsist off of both digital and physical currencies. Using blockchain technology to secure ownership and potentially grow value, linking physically produced goods with encrypted digital value.
Networks that are formed would then be connected locally and globally, interacting along cultural value lines, social and production networks. It would be the emergence of a new kind of internet, and a new kind of globalization.
More to below...
Update 2021:
“New Extractivism”, described as an assemblage of concpts and allegories, by Vladan Joler, offers a practical description of the information superstructure that lays the framework for understanding this superstructure as a multidimension/teleportation apparatus.
New Extractivism
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https://extractivism.online/
“A new form of extractivism defines life in the 21st Century. It is one that reaches into the furthest corners of the biosphere and the deepest layers of human cognitive and affective being: the stack that underpins contemporary technological systems goes well beyond the multi-layered ‘technical stack’ of data modeling, hardware, servers, and networks. Today’s full stack reaches into capital, labor, and nature, while demanding an enormous amount from each.This animation and accompanying diagram gather together different concepts and images of the new extractivism, proposing a semi coherent picture of the full stack. The concepts that it presents are mostly represented in the form of visual allegories. Dictionaries define allegory as a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. All of these allegories and concepts gathered here add up to a blueprint—for a machine-like superstructure; a super allegory that encompasses the whole world. What we have here is an almost fractal allegorical structure—an allegory within an allegory within an allegory…“
Essay, concept and maps - Vladan Joler
Animation - Živa Stanojević and Aleksandar Ilić
Music - Igor Lečić
2021
Sources
Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of
an emerging productive model.Vasilis Kostakisa, Vasilis Niarosa, George Dafermosc, Michel Bauwensda
Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, National Institute of Higher Studies, P2P Foundation
L’Atelier: The Virtual Economy
The Mutualist Economy: A New Deal for Ownership
Berggruen Institute
After a few years of research across several fields of science, media, sociology and history, I’ve come to recognize the possibility that we may be in the midst of a pivotal transformation in industry. 
The are availalbe now, a sort of “perfect storm” of techological advancement in the form of computer generated imaging, 3D printers (the range here is quite vast), data hosting, mixed reality imaging, VR modeling and decentralized digital currencies. There are a host of other factors, including the internet of things, the capabilities of AI and machine learning, economic instability, and mobile-first emerging markets. Anyway, one that does stand out relatively clearly is the prevalance of gaming and the titanic growth of the gaming indsutry. Games like Fortnite and Minecraft present the perfect analogy for this emerging industrial model.
- The Virtual Economy
Products, methods, experiences and machines can be developed in digital spaces (AR, MR, VR) locally, say by VFX artists in Los Angeles or Melbourne, then the digital object can be “shipped” to another part of the world, say to industrial designers or food growers in Atlanta, via the internet. Printed on-demand, on-site by an array of 3D printers. Then assembled by hand (think Ikea) or by machine (Tesla, Kia?). The process could also work in reverse. Say an artisan in Atlanta or Mexico City makes an object by hand. The object could be digitally scanned, emailed and replicated on site within minutes or hours depending on the complexity of the job. The rendered models could also have a dual life, one for replication physically via 3D printing, and one replicated digitally via AR/MR & VR marketplaces. Individuals and organiztions could then subsist off of both digital and physical currencies. Using blockchain technology to secure ownership and potentially grow value, linking physically produced goods with encrypted digital value.
Networks that are formed would then be connected locally and globally, interacting along cultural value lines, social and production networks. It would be the emergence of a new kind of internet, and a new kind of globalization.
More to below...
Update 2021:
“New Extractivism”, described as an assemblage of concpts and allegories, by Vladan Joler, offers a practical description of the information superstructure that lays the framework for understanding this superstructure as a multidimension/teleportation apparatus.
New Extractivism
https://extractivism.online/
“A new form of extractivism defines life in the 21st Century. It is one that reaches into the furthest corners of the biosphere and the deepest layers of human cognitive and affective being: the stack that underpins contemporary technological systems goes well beyond the multi-layered ‘technical stack’ of data modeling, hardware, servers, and networks. Today’s full stack reaches into capital, labor, and nature, while demanding an enormous amount from each.This animation and accompanying diagram gather together different concepts and images of the new extractivism, proposing a semi coherent picture of the full stack. The concepts that it presents are mostly represented in the form of visual allegories. Dictionaries define allegory as a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one. All of these allegories and concepts gathered here add up to a blueprint—for a machine-like superstructure; a super allegory that encompasses the whole world. What we have here is an almost fractal allegorical structure—an allegory within an allegory within an allegory…“
Essay, concept and maps - Vladan Joler
Animation - Živa Stanojević and Aleksandar Ilić
Music - Igor Lečić
2021
Sources
Design global, manufacture local: Exploring the contours of
an emerging productive model.Vasilis Kostakisa, Vasilis Niarosa, George Dafermosc, Michel Bauwensda
Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, National Institute of Higher Studies, P2P Foundation
L’Atelier: The Virtual Economy
The Mutualist Economy: A New Deal for Ownership
Berggruen Institute