One other problem would be to store and process enough information to build these objects, there is no way you could store information to make the objects atom by atom, but objects like cars and rifles etc you could probably do, living objects except perhaps from bacteria I think would demand way to much information, not to mention you,d have to build it fast enough for it not to spontaneously fall apart ( lots of parts in the human body are highly pos deltaG )
Perhaps dead organic matter would work, like a bowl of porridge but I still think all these things would be much easier to produce the traditional way.
Yup you wouldn't need money since you could produce what you wanted by yourself. With the internet instructions for these machines for producing different objects would spread like wildfire I suppose. Unless we have a much better source of power ( say fusion ) that will be a problem however, since you'd still need energy to assemble these materials in a orderly fashion, also I suppose rare compounds would still be in some sort of demand. Another great thing with these machines would be that you'd be able to run 'em backwards I suppose and recycle materials in a way that is unpractical today. I think economics as we know it today would disappear if we had these machines and an enormous amount of energy. Problem is of course to make something like this in actual life, not just on paper.
Fans of anime etc that are non japanese basicly don't have much choice other than to rely on dc and torrents to get subtitled ( fansub )animes. Of course some of the biggest hits will be out on DVD long after. I havn't seen much action taken by any of the Japanese companies making these shows, probably because they know that most of their fanbase/customerbase ( for eventual merchendise and dvdboxes ) abroad wouldn't even exist without fansubs.
This is sort of the reverse I guess to the situation of people not wanting to see dubbed shows and therefore dl raws from US( not that I ever would watch dubbed anime over subbed )
Slashdot Mirror
One other problem would be to store and process enough information to build these objects, there is no way you could store information to make the objects atom by atom, but objects like cars and rifles etc you could probably do, living objects except perhaps from bacteria I think would demand way to much information, not to mention you,d have to build it fast enough for it not to spontaneously fall apart ( lots of parts in the human body are highly pos deltaG ) Perhaps dead organic matter would work, like a bowl of porridge but I still think all these things would be much easier to produce the traditional way.
Yup you wouldn't need money since you could produce what you wanted by yourself.
With the internet instructions for these machines for producing different objects would spread like wildfire I suppose.
Unless we have a much better source of power ( say fusion ) that will be a problem however, since you'd still need energy to assemble these materials in a orderly fashion, also I suppose rare compounds would still be in some sort of demand.
Another great thing with these machines would be that you'd be able to run 'em backwards I suppose and recycle materials in a way that is unpractical today.
I think economics as we know it today would disappear if we had these machines and an enormous amount of energy.
Problem is of course to make something like this in actual life, not just on paper.
Fans of anime etc that are non japanese basicly don't have much choice other than to rely on dc and torrents to get subtitled ( fansub )animes. Of course some of the biggest hits will be out on DVD long after. I havn't seen much action taken by any of the Japanese companies making these shows, probably because they know that most of their fanbase/customerbase ( for eventual merchendise and dvdboxes ) abroad wouldn't even exist without fansubs. This is sort of the reverse I guess to the situation of people not wanting to see dubbed shows and therefore dl raws from US( not that I ever would watch dubbed anime over subbed )