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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. ugh by CGP314 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yesterday I fantasized about a generator of matter... 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.

    So what? You think you're the oracle just because you had an idea that many people had before you and coincidently saw a magazine article about that same idea?


    -Colin