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THE MADE AND THE BORN
Yet beyond semantics, two concrete trends are happening: (1) Human-made things are behaving more lifelike, and (2) Life is becoming more engineered.
Given a slim foothold, the remarkable latent power in interconnected green things can launch the law of increasing returns: “Them that has, gets more.”
The rule for machines is counterintuitive but clear: Complex machines must be made incrementally and often indirectly. Don’t try to make a functioning mechanical system all at once, in one glorious act of
assembly.
