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Envisioning the Desktop Fabricator

Posted by michael on from the just-slightly-ahead-of-its-time dept.

mkl writes "Yesterday I fantasized about a generator of matter. Not a laser plotter for carving 3d objects, but a device that will assemble any given object from its base, out of atoms. I was thinking about a device that can find its place under the roofs of all the people working on PCs all over the world. So I fantasize about it at work and what do I see in the Wired News newsletter? 'Any product, any shape, any size -- manufactured on your desktop! The future is the fabricator.' Heh."

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  1. Re:..which begs the question by gowen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Which begs the question "Why do so many people who don't know what the phrase "begs the questioon" means, use it in conversation"?

    Clue : it does not mean "leads to the obvious next question..."

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