5. Industry & Automatons

Sometimes dreams do become real...

For almost 3 decades, there is only one industry - and the name of it is nanotechnology. Any material which is allowed by the laws of nature can be built by putting atom to atom into a wanted structure. Day when "matter compilers" got public was the day when nanotechnology broke through into everyday life. Some families have matter compilers as big as microwave ovens, some are big as washing machines, and the richer ones have matter compilers as big as a garage - but in these no-car days there is almost no use for such big compilers - except that they can "compile" smaller ones. Every citizen has a right for 1kg of moieties daily from which 1kg of basic granulated food can be compiled in public matter compilers (PMC).

Matter compiler is given a pre-scription, a recepy, a computer file which describes an atomic structure of resulting product. Similiarly as 3d printers of the past, this compiler afterwards puts atoms or molecular moieties into right order, thus forming a wanted thing. It takes the moieties from The Feed. The Feed is a network of diamondoid pipes which are spread underneath the City. What veins are for a body is a Feed network for a City. There are 2 different types of Feed pipes - vessels and arteries. Vessels bring pure and clear moieties to the matter compiler from the regions of Automata. Arteries bring all "decompiled" garbage from matter decompilers to the regions of Automata. In the regions of Automata machines care for transformation of "polluted" complex molecules from decomiled products into pure simple atomic building blocks which are again circulated into the vessels of The Feed.

Only few cryptographers know details about the processes which are being performed in the region of Automata. Human beings serve more like observers than masters and managers for it is almost impossible for an unenhanced human being to take into account complexity of processes going on. Very rarely does one of the cryptographers - accroding to the voice of spirit of intuition - influence the process.

Not only are machines responsible for the transportation of Matter within our city - roots of this process may be tracked down to the past century!- their analysis direct flow of money within the financial sphere. They are as well responsible for creation and distribution of Energy -at Smichov, Malesice and Stara Boleslav fusion reactors are fully operational in highly protected environments.

Automata are as we1ll responsible for the function of The Membrane.