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Deep Future · September 16 · 25 min

Screw the Screws — Mike Winter 3/5

Mike Winter and I talk about the precision of Chinese manufacturing, the depth of its supply chains, and what it would take to bring production back to the U.S. Could we make things differently instead of rebuilding the same factories? Mike proposes a design challenge: no screws allowed. We get into combat robots, 3D printing, rocket design, and the assumptions hidden in the way we build things. Then we ask a bigger question: what are we making all this stuff for, and what actually brings us happiness? Terms in this episode CFD — computational fluid dynamics. CFD is numerical simulation of how liquids and gases move — used to design rockets, cars, drones, and other hardware where airflow or flow fields matter.

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Mike Winter and I talk about the precision of Chinese manufacturing, the depth of its supply chains, and what it would take to bring production back to the U.S. Could we make things differently instead of rebuilding the same factories?

Mike proposes a design challenge: no screws allowed. We get into combat robots, 3D printing, rocket design, and the assumptions hidden in the way we build things. Then we ask a bigger question: what are we making all this stuff for, and what actually brings us happiness?

Terms in this episode

CFD — computational fluid dynamics. CFD is numerical simulation of how liquids and gases move — used to design rockets, cars, drones, and other hardware where airflow or flow fields matter.

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