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The Product Bay (Pirate Bay for personal fabrication)
- steveklabnik 17y agoAh, yes. This has been mentioned in concept by various blogs, but nobody's done anything more than Thingaverse yet. Iiiinteresting.
- akbar101 17y agoyou wouldn't download a car
- joshu 17y agoShapeways?
- whimsy 17y agoI believe this idea was part of Snow Crash, and also a premise of Cory Doctorow's "Makers." (Except the means of production are centralized in Makers, iirc.)
- swagatmahapatra 17y agoi didnt understand this at all..can some one explain this to me ,please. . .
- jey 17y ago<ACHTUNG> Vaporware Ahead! </ACHTUNG> But, I'll support the spirit/thought anyway. Relevant: Free e-book of Engines of Creation by Eric Drexler, http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html http://e-drexler.com/d/06/00/EOC/EOC_Table_of_Contents.html (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engines_of_Creation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engines_of_Creation)
- nitrogen 17y agoI think there would be nothing cooler than to be able to "pirate" food. Farming would become a niche operation for those who love it, and those who want "real" food, while most of the world would live on "photocopied" watermelon, bread, and steak.
- paulgerhardt 17y agoSee http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeiser http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsanto_Canada_Inc._v._Schmeis... Monsanto (maker of 90% of genetically engineered seeds, 46B market cap) sued a neighboring farmer for patent infringement after their seeds were found in his field, which he harvested, and later resold as feed...
- chaostheory 17y agothere's nothing there aside from a big banner ad. what is interesting about the site? did I miss something?