Peer To Peer Meets Manufacturing

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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[Luigi30]

...and dotted. Chalk another one up to the Slashdot Effect!

Looks like conservatives agree with me.

[HanzoSan]

Dean is a serious threat The Weekly Standard

Read, the conservaties view Dean as a threat, I dont know where you get the un-electable crap.

You also make the unwarranted assumption that everyone will want, and will buy, a new hybrid or hydro-car, in a relatively short period of time. 10 years is by far too short a changeover period: I'd think 30 years is more reasonable. After all, people are still driving 1960's-vintage cars out there as classics, and I still see plenty of 1970's-vintage cars on the roads.

We were attacked by TERRORISTS because we use ridiculous forms of energy which supported them. Why cant Bush blame this on the terrorists? He can make up these masterful speeches about Bin Laden and Saddam being on the same team and having nuclear weapons, let him have his same speech writers write some new lines to get people to stop using gas in their cars.
And, recall that quite a few people cannot afford a new vehicle: a quick transition such as you propose would severely impact the lower end of the economic spectrum. By the standards that you appear to espouse as a general case, this is a rather large-turnabout. Somebody convert to to Pat Buchanan last night ???? (g)


I'm a college student, there are millions of me who dont even have their first car. Another excuse.

Pat Buchanan ? No I didnt convert to Republican, I'm independent and always will be. Both parties are evil in my opinion, I vote for the person who benefits me at the time. If I were a religious millionaire I'd vote for Bush.