Fractals, Factories and Fast Food
summary
Concrete thresholds and working systems anchor the story: a 1999 4 MB threshold makes walking to a T1 (1.5 Mbps) faster than home dial‑up; early ADSL hits ~576 kbps; modern home gets ~48 Mbps over the same copper. Industrial farming now lets one farmer feed ~500 people; logistics rely on container ships and a live Vera autonomous truck moving containers today; there are ~3.5 million US truck drivers at stake. Addressing is messy (postcodes, GPS limits, 3x3 m what3words quirks). Prototypes exist — 3D pizza printer and sugar‑bot show feasibility though trade‑show proof doesn’t equal mass use.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:07Networks in modern life
- 2:11Pizza delivery networks
- 3:34Graph theory for networks
- 5:441999 internet limits
- 8:56ADSL last mile
- 11:43Fiber broadband tech
- 13:50Last kilometer problem
- 15:14Building pizza from scratch
- 15:55Industrial farming networks
- 19:49Global shipping logistics
- 21:14Autonomous trucks future
- 23:20Pizza ingredient chains
- 24:46Pizza delivery challenges
- 25:31Address system flaws
- 28:19Alternative addressing systems
- 30:26Postcodes vs GPS
- 31:53What3Words future
- 34:18CQRS in biology
- 36:25Digestive system & pizza
- 38:11Future food tech
- 40:39Decoupling food factors
- 42:04Neural implants & senses
- 43:50Brain-to-pizza delivery
- 44:10Q&A
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