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Peer To Peer Meets Manufacturing

Posted by Hemos on from the plenty-of-room-at-the-bottom dept.

Crashmarik writes "Small times has an article detailing UCB advances in desktop manufacturing. They raise the possibility for effectively downloading physical objects through the net. We have allready seen the reaction "Property Holders" over downloading music, what is the likely upshot of being able to copy physical objects. More importantly what are the implications for our society as we move out of an age of scarcity to an age of plenty ?" Great article - the author of it also won The Foresight Institute's prize in communications for 2002.

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  1. I wonder by mjmalone · · Score: 5, Funny

    How much they're gunna charge for the ink...

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  2. Whole new meaning to adult entertainment online by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long will it be with this system in place until you can download the most ungodly of things from adult entertainment sites? EEEEW!

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  3. Slashdot 20 years from now by daveo0331 · · Score: 5, Funny

    We'll all be complaining about the CIAA (Car Industry Association of America), CBAA (Coffee Brewers Association of America), BBAA (Beer Brewers Association of America) etc etc etc

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    1. Re:Slashdot 20 years from now by richie2000 · · Score: 5, Funny
      but why would you want the recipe to bud light?

      Because it's the cheapest one to replicate? You just run some tap water over a can of Real Beer(TM) and drink the resulting fluid. Make sure the can is clean first and remember to not open it, that will ruin the unique Bud flavor.

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  4. One step better by m00nun1t · · Score: 5, Funny

    I already downloaded a piece of software from a site and as soon as I ran it a cupholder appeared from my PC!

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  5. Let me be the first to announce... by Lord_Slepnir · · Score: 5, Funny

    Let me be the first to announce the open-source Car project. I'm currently on version 0.2. We have the chasis mostly bug-free, with occasional glitches on an Interstate network. Seat-Belts are available on the nightly builds, but aren't supported yet. You'll still have to use a closed-source engine module, and we're not planning on adding it until version .5 when we have the chasis, firewall, and fuel system components some-what bug free. I've heard some people saying that they've been able to use the engine module from the Open-Source-Lawn-Mower project, but it will only work under light loads. For now, I have to get back to developing the lights module. BTW, we're looking for someone to design a module-hot-swaping system, similar to linux.

  6. p2p Cadillac by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny

    Oh great. Instead of the RIAA wondering about those songs on your hard disk, you'll have the NAM (National Association of Manufacturers) getting after you because you have 60 full-sized plastic Cadillacs downloaded from Repster in your back yard.

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  7. Re:remember "All Tomorrow's Parties"? by micromoog · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm holding out for the day when we can go to the corner 7-11 and order up a beautiful woman

    You can do that today at the corner of 7th and 11th.