...such a drone factory would be unlikely to be a single box taking soil in at one end and firing drones out of the other.
But in Conway's Game of Life a drone gun may be assembled out of gliders fired together from several locations. In the messier reality the subunits and their movers are likely to be various rather than identical.
The third volume of Richard Morgan's #AlteredCarbon trilogy features a continent occupied by such #VonNeuman #autonomata and dangerous.
#Conway's game of #Life is entertaining and worth looking at. Simple rules produce complexity, for instance the #glider, a figure which migrates across the board or space, and the glider gun, which spits them out.
The #vonNeuman machine conceptually makes more of itself. See the #monolith in #ACClarke's #2001aspaceodyssey or perhaps #saberhagen 's #Berserkers #SciFi
Imagine a #drone #factory which hides, moves, and spits out drones which attack the enemy.
Could get messy.
#Leibniz
#Jacquard
#Turing
#vonNeuman
#Digitalisierung ist älter als die meisten ahnen.
Sie wurde jedoch erst durch Elektronik so richtig beschleunigt.
Und dann waren da noch die #Halbleiter und Gordon #Moore (#Intel).
https://www.spektrum.de/kolumne/hemmer-und-messner-erzaehlen-die-geschichte-der-lochkarte/2211850?utm_source=pocket-newtab-de-de
#LeeCronin and #LexFridman - The Greatest #Invention In The History Of The #Universe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_x3Teeq40&ab_channel=LexClips
#CellularAutomata #Life #Evolution #Computation #DataStorage #Replication #StateMachine #TuringMachine #VonNeuman #Replicator #Replicators #Constructor #Constructors #PhaseTransition #PhaseTransitions #Mutation
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