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Question:  The idea that I found most surprising in your videos is the idea that local communities could fabricate computers. How are you proposing this?

Answer:  Without a doubt, the single most difficult part of manufacturing not only computers but all kinds of digital devices is 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. The next generation facilities are projected to cost tens of billions. 

At this level of productivity, it is obvious that there is no way a local community 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 to maintain the process of creating computers if things begin to get difficult? 

If your aim is to continue to provide Xbox game systems, you will require multi billion dollar production facilities.  If, on the other hand, your goal is to produce and maintain a distributive financial system, i.e. a correctly conceived banking mechanism, the computers required can be made with much older technologies.

Facilities that can produce computers capable of tracking financial transactions would cost, if made from scratch, no more than a few tens of millions of dollars.  If you obtain used chip manufacturing equipment, this cost could be in the few millions. 

Granted, a facility at this price may be beyond the budget of most small communities; however, a number of small communities within a given region could come together and finance this type of productivity. Such a facility would be able to produce what a group of communities would require after a financial collapse. 

The real question is not whether or not a range of fairly small regions of the country could produce and support such facilities after the crash.  The question is: How could the community justify introducing such production capacity before the crash? 

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