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Articles A200 and A201 covered the historical trajectory of hardware description languages and the design space that next-generation languages might occupy. This article addresses the third time frame in the same subject, namely the state of the practice as of mid two thousand twenty-six. The question here is not what happened, which A200 answered, nor what could happen, whic...

A meta-factory is a factory whose primary product is other factories, or the components required to assemble them. The concept occupies a specific position in the theory of self-replicating systems, and distinguishes manufacturing from consumer production by its subject. A conventional factory produces end goods for consumers. A meta-factory produces production capacity. The ...

Article A200 walked the historical trajectory of hardware description languages across five decades and closed on the observation that each successive wave appeared in response to a specific abstraction gap that prior languages left open at the new scale of integration. This article treats the design space that the next wave occupies. The question is not which specific langua...

The introduction to off-grid space colonization analog facilities that opened this category identified the buoyant atmospheric platform analog as the most conspicuous gap in the terres...

The introduction to off-grid space colonization analog facilities that opened this category identifies transportation and roads as one of the nine subsystems that any analog must imple...