Peer To Peer Meets Manufacturing

Posted by Hemos on Monday July 28, 2003 @01:31AM 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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Matter printer? by Acidic_Diarrhea · 2003-07-28 02:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

article on MSNBC that discusses advances being made in the realm of understanding how matter is organized. Certainly in order to have a "matter printer", we would have to know how to create material on the fly. I think there are steps being made in that direction.

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