It was actually quite a fun discussion. I’ve been thinking quite a lot recently about how fundamentally our world will change when we are able to automate construction as completely as spinning and weaving were automated at the tipping point of the industrial revolution. Could be that we see another huge expansion of education. The mechanisation of cloth making in the North of England in the late 1700s had a snowball effect, fast-tracking the improvement of steam power and creating the initial economic motivation for railways in the 1830s. Demand for steel rose, driving further innovation in places like Sheffield where I lived in the 1970s as that industry was being hollowed out. Factory production based on fossil fuel power spread rapidly across the…