This is the second season of my roll of the dice series. This episode really is about everything. Well almost. The technological developments occurring across agriculture, mining and manufacturing are breath taking. This is just a little snapshot of the last few years of developments.

Normally, I like to add a bunch of references. This episode has too many, and I have accumulated this knowledge over decades of watching and doing analysis in this field. However, wikipedia has been really valuable in checking some of the specifics of ships sizes. Here is a link to the aerospace company mentioned https://beta.team/

You may think I was a bit skimpy on the computer industry, which is true but it gets enormous coverage and sometimes it is important to focus everywhere else.

The intro and outro music is 'fantasy orchestra' available at https://freesound.org/