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If you had a replicator that could produce anything, why would you need money at all? Even if manufacturing becomes effectively free, resources won't. You'll s
by camccann 17y ago
If you had a replicator that could produce anything, why would you need money at all?
Even if manufacturing becomes effectively free, resources won't. You'll still need energy and raw materials.
There wouldn't even be markets as we know them today where an inventor could command really high fees.
Just like the internet made the market for copyrighted information go away, right?
- kiba 17y agoJust like the internet made the market for copyrighted information go away, right? Most people are afraid to experiment without copyright and does not have a business model to exploit a non-copyright paradigm. However it does not mean that a non-copyright or at least copyright without much competitive deterrent would not thrive. Indeed, the open source software industry is one huge example. RedHat, for example effectively does not deter competitors from making copies of their distribution and selling it. However they still make lot of money. Arduino, an open source hardware platform, is another example. Chinese manufacturers copied their design, but the firm behind arduino still manages to sell a boatload of them.
- joe_the_user 17y agoEven if manufacturing becomes effectively free, resources won't. You'll still need energy and raw materials. Uh, print space ship, print fusion reactor, No, if you can make anything, then everything would be free. Of course, states would be first in line for the omnipotent power, so things wouldn't necessarily be easy...
- joe_the_user 17y agoJust like the internet made the market for copyrighted information go away, right? The Internet has torn big chunks in this market and remaining players of old media seem determined to stop this even if it means killing the net. Things haven't settled down and I don't think they will for a while...