ANN ARBOR It is June 15, 2030, and for Sam and Sue of Ann Arbor, Michigan, it is going to be a busy day. Their daughter Sophia has a 9 a.m. karate match.

Here you see the machining, the milling of a block of acrylic.

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with downcast eyes they shall come out of their graves, as if they were locusts milling about

with downcast eyes they shall come out of their graves, as if they were locusts milling about

Every morning I drive about 30 miles from my home in Ann Arbor to my office in Dearborn, Michigan.

Across sub Saharan Africa, engineers from India armed with appropriate technologies honed in their home market are also making their mark. India supplies Africa with computer education courses, the most reliable water pumps, low cost rice milling equipment, and dozens of other technologies.

A laser cutter to do press fit assembly with 3D from 2D, a sign cutter to plot in copper to do electromagnetics, a micron scale, numerically controlled milling machine for precise structures, programming tools for less than a dollar, 100 nanosecond microcontrollers. It lets you work from microns and microseconds on up, and they exploded around the world.