It may cause spammers dificulty, but what about the server you run it on... what keeps it from ending up blacklisted on ordb and the like, and then becoming inaccessible to all those people out there who have vigilant sysadmins and good firewalls?
This would change nothing of the socioeconomic systems from within this change happened!
You'd still have to buy raw materials, energy, designs, software, Repairs to your fabricator, newer versions of the fabricator that can make more elaborate products, etc...
Maybe economies will be more centralized around this method of production...
Maybe a lot of blender-assemblers will loose their jobs,
but the overall system would still be the same...
Think of when Automotive assembly lines went robotic... did that destroy the market for AutoWorkers? did the UAW collapse? no. Some jobs changes, some were ended, but new ones were created too (maybe nobody welds the frames, but somebody welds the robots!)
Think of the infinite new permutations the marketplace would develop for thes products too -
Your Target/Michael Graves Fabs (everything comes out pastel blue and gray and bulbous)
etc.
And then theres the Fabs that build Fabs, and those that build them... and all the materials that THEY'RE made of, and all the energy needed to create them.. and all of the food and entertainment and transportation and services and drycleaning and telecomunications and everything else that this development would hardly affect at all!
"Glass would seem to be relatively inert, but who knows."
There you go! how about an all glass house. I know i've seen one in an architecture magazine. it was pretty cool, and not necessarily transparent, either. The walls were made like a foot thick, with 1" thick panes of glass stacked against each other. Hypoalergenic, and kindof cool looking. I can't find a link right now but there's some cool pictures out there somewhere, i think it was Architectural Record. (no i don't mean the Farnsworth house, or that one from the movie.
Of course the furnishings would have to be all glass too. I'm sure they could be cast into nice non-sharp, form fitting shapes...
the only unplesentness would be the view of the glass pipes from the upstairs bathroom running through the glass interior wall, especially when in use...:-)
actually, mold has become a pretty big deal. Mold doesn't hurt you, but the spores can cause illness in humans, even a few documented deaths. The lawyers are already sharpening their pencils over this...
What about rammed earth construction? If he's alergic to dirt, what's left?? with dirt walls, and heavy timber roof framing (read home-grown, untreated wood) he can have a great all-natural, allbeit high-maintenence home.
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It may cause spammers dificulty, but what about the server you run it on... what keeps it from ending up blacklisted on ordb and the like, and then becoming inaccessible to all those people out there who have vigilant sysadmins and good firewalls?
You'd still have to buy raw materials, energy, designs, software, Repairs to your fabricator, newer versions of the fabricator that can make more elaborate products, etc...
Maybe economies will be more centralized around this method of production...
Maybe a lot of blender-assemblers will loose their jobs, but the overall system would still be the same... Think of when Automotive assembly lines went robotic... did that destroy the market for AutoWorkers? did the UAW collapse? no. Some jobs changes, some were ended, but new ones were created too (maybe nobody welds the frames, but somebody welds the robots!)
Think of the infinite new permutations the marketplace would develop for thes products too -
- Your Target/Michael Graves Fabs (everything comes out pastel blue and gray and bulbous)
- etc.
And then theres the Fabs that build Fabs, and those that build them... and all the materials that THEY'RE made of, and all the energy needed to create them.. and all of the food and entertainment and transportation and services and drycleaning and telecomunications and everything else that this development would hardly affect at all!"Glass would seem to be relatively inert, but who knows."
:-)
There you go! how about an all glass house. I know i've seen one in an architecture magazine. it was pretty cool, and not necessarily transparent, either. The walls were made like a foot thick, with 1" thick panes of glass stacked against each other. Hypoalergenic, and kindof cool looking. I can't find a link right now but there's some cool pictures out there somewhere, i think it was Architectural Record. (no i don't mean the Farnsworth house, or that one from the movie. Of course the furnishings would have to be all glass too. I'm sure they could be cast into nice non-sharp, form fitting shapes...
the only unplesentness would be the view of the glass pipes from the upstairs bathroom running through the glass interior wall, especially when in use...
actually, mold has become a pretty big deal. Mold doesn't hurt you, but the spores can cause illness in humans, even a few documented deaths. The lawyers are already sharpening their pencils over this...
"However, all molds produce spores when they reproduce, and some of those spores produce mycotoxins, or poison."
What about rammed earth construction? If he's alergic to dirt, what's left?? with dirt walls, and heavy timber roof framing (read home-grown, untreated wood) he can have a great all-natural, allbeit high-maintenence home.
This is obviously not always possible as many functions (squaring a number, sin of a number, ...) are not reversible
hogwash.
x^2=y, then y^1/2 = x. its a square-root!
if my caluclator from the early 80's can do it....
not so crazy. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/7.11/eword.html ?pg=3