http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 93238
I wonder what would happen to society when these two devices mature and perhaps merge. Of course I refer to the replicators of star trek fame.
One thing that struck me is that this work was being done on modified ink-jet printers. So it seems vary likely that we will be able to use the information from these studies to modify our own ink jet printers into our own replicators. If you think hack your Xbox is cool, wait till you see the articles on how to hack your Epson. The common man will have the manufacturing capacity of both 3 billion years of evolution and the last 200 years of the industrial revolution.
Naturally there will be businesses who will try to capitalize on these types of manufacturing. And there will be patent problems what we will have to deal with. Taking a que from the internet, where to gain a patent all one has to do is add an 'e' to a preexisting idea (ie, eauctions, ebussness). So I use the letter 'r' for replicator and add write a perl script to add 'r' to the beginning of a massive word list. Now I own the ideas for the rauctions, rebussness, resex (witch I will need a lot of to continue, nevermind).
One the replictor becomes reality it will be heavily regulated or for the free use of individuals. Because these devices will be easy to make, heavy regulation by businesses and or governments can only keep these devices from a large portion of society at first. There will still be groups of hacker biologists who will be able to create these machines using their own skills. And so long as the internet remains there will be a repository of products that can be printed out.
I don't know about you, but if I didn't have to worry about food and shelter I would not be working where I do. These replicators will provide all the material wealth that we can download off the internet. We will no longer be coerced into working for our material wealth. We'd grow it from easy to acquire substances such as "Hamster Ovaries", as the article mentions. Without the need to spend all our time working for someone else, we'll be able to educate others to do the same as we do. Given the choice of working for a company or government for food, or sitting on their ass all day, the public will be completely enticed to join our cause. With the public on our side one of two things will happen. They will vote to eliminate restrictions on replicators or will be killed by cyborg terror-minators with Texas accents. (Don't mess with Texas)
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http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns999 93238
I wonder what would happen to society when these two devices mature and perhaps merge. Of course I refer to the replicators of star trek fame.
One thing that struck me is that this work was being done on modified ink-jet printers. So it seems vary likely that we will be able to use the information from these studies to modify our own ink jet printers into our own replicators. If you think hack your Xbox is cool, wait till you see the articles on how to hack your Epson. The common man will have the manufacturing capacity of both 3 billion years of evolution and the last 200 years of the industrial revolution.
Naturally there will be businesses who will try to capitalize on these types of manufacturing. And there will be patent problems what we will have to deal with. Taking a que from the internet, where to gain a patent all one has to do is add an 'e' to a preexisting idea (ie, eauctions, ebussness). So I use the letter 'r' for replicator and add write a perl script to add 'r' to the beginning of a massive word list. Now I own the ideas for the rauctions, rebussness, resex (witch I will need a lot of to continue, nevermind).
One the replictor becomes reality it will be heavily regulated or for the free use of individuals. Because these devices will be easy to make, heavy regulation by businesses and or governments can only keep these devices from a large portion of society at first. There will still be groups of hacker biologists who will be able to create these machines using their own skills. And so long as the internet remains there will be a repository of products that can be printed out.
I don't know about you, but if I didn't have to worry about food and shelter I would not be working where I do. These replicators will provide all the material wealth that we can download off the internet. We will no longer be coerced into working for our material wealth. We'd grow it from easy to acquire substances such as "Hamster Ovaries", as the article mentions. Without the need to spend all our time working for someone else, we'll be able to educate others to do the same as we do. Given the choice of working for a company or government for food, or sitting on their ass all day, the public will be completely enticed to join our cause. With the public on our side one of two things will happen. They will vote to eliminate restrictions on replicators or will be killed by cyborg terror-minators with Texas accents. (Don't mess with Texas)
Thank you