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Part 6: Necessary Components for Community Sustainability Computing Technology It is essential that we maintain digital technologies. At first consideration, one would think that with the loss of advanced large scale production, local communities would lose access to digital products. And, if a community looks upon these products as things beyond their ability to produce, this inevitably will be the case. There will be only one way that a community will continue to benefit from this advanced use of science. Each community will be required to help in their creation. The simple question becomes how can a local community be able to produce advanced digital products? In the simplest terms, individual communities will not be able to produce these things by themselves. It will require cooperation among a number of local communities within a given region. As for the products produced by this cooperation, they will be fundamentally different from what most people conceive. To begin with, a group of cooperating local communities will not be able to produce things that we take for granted such as advanced gaming systems. Digital systems will no longer be the primary means of entertainment. For children, a ball, outdoor activities and physical play will replace all this. And, as for adults who have become imbued with these frivolities, it will all be replaced by hard work and the building and maintaining of families. The type of digital products that communities will cooperatively produce will be driven by the required essential services that need to be maintained. At the top of the list will be communications, followed by the tracking and recording of monetary and financial transactions (which are the backbone of a free market society), and finally, communities will need to maintain the controls used to shape and machine parts. With these required functions identified, it is now possible to identify the kinds of digital products that will need to be made. Without a doubt, the single most difficult part of manufacturing these digital devices will be producing the chips that go into them. At the present time, the facilities that make the most modern digital chips cost into the billions of dollars. At this level of productivity, it is obvious that there is no way a local community or region of local communities can ever hope to set up such facilities. However, this approach to chip manufacturing is not the full story. Chip production has evolved over five decades. When it started, the facilities did not cost billions of dollars. They did not even cost 100s of millions of dollars. They cost millions to tens of millions of dollars. So the real question comes, what will a community need in order to produce the chips that will meet the previously mentioned services? In simple terms, old line chip manufacturing technology will be able to create what is needed for these services. A manufacturing facility that produces digital circuitry at the level of the early 1990s will meet all essential requirements of a community. A facility with this capability will cost no more than a few tens of millions of dollars. The cost could be further controlled if used manufacturing equipment were obtained to start the first prototype regional production facility. In addition, there are several theoretical approaches to next generation chip manufacturing that will allow us the ability to create manufacturing facilities that won’t require the same complexity that is now found in the process of building chips. One of the major components of the fourth Industrial revolution is the introduction of chip production to the local community.
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