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Where we stop rationing energy and begin turning starlight directly into Starminds   ᎱᏬᎢᏬᎡᎬᏟᎡᎪᎱᎢᏆᏁᏀ ᎬᎪᎡᎢᎻ: ᎠᎾᎾᎡ 3   From bits to atoms In Door 2 we rebuilt the mind. But a mind, however luminous, is abstracted from the physical world — it thinks, it models, it dreams, and none of that yet moves a single gram of matter. Door 3 and Door 4 are where we cross the border into the material universe and put a dent in it with intelligent, robotic fingers. And the whole of abundance, once you strip away the politics and the poetry, reduces to a...

Where the machine learns to build the machine, and minds are finally given bodies   ᎱᏬᎢᏬᎡᎬᏟᎡᎪᎱᎢᏆᏁᏀ ᎬᎪᎡᎢᎻ: ᎠᎾᎾᎡ 4 From energy to matter Door 3 taught us to command the fire. Door 4 is where we forge with it. If stellar abundance is the energy, material abundance is the form that energy is shaped into — the finished stuff of a civilization: its tools, its shelter, its vehicles, and, before long, its bodies. Once more the whole of it reduces to that single, stubborn act the master builder named before anyone else: autonomously moving atoms — this time not as...