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There are glaring flaws in their analysis in all five cases, and no solid connection to the sweeping claim they're baiting peoople with. E.g. 3D printers are a

by fuu 15y ago

There are glaring flaws in their analysis in all five cases, and no solid connection to the sweeping claim they're baiting peoople with. E.g. 3D printers are awesome, but they have major limitations. Anyone claiming that they have any chance of wiping out the clothing industry in the foreseeable future has no bloody clue about the topic, or how well people would take to wearing 1mm resolution deposited ABS plastic instead of finely-woven textiles.

uncoder0 15y ago
2030 is a long way out.
jsmcgd 15y ago
The article is making a prediction about the future and technology normally improves with time. Your example implies that you think we'll be stuck with 1mm resolution and with deposited ABS plastic. I think 3D printers of the not so distant future will finely weave textiles. Amongst other things.
hsmyers 15y ago
"Finely-woven textiles"---this tells me you know very little about the last 150 years of weaving technology. We no longer have such a thing and have not had since the 20th century. The last looms capable of doing that kind of work hit the scrap heap well more than 20 years ago. Closest thing to it (and that's not all that close) are produced on islands off of the cost of Scotland; heavily subsidized and tightly controlled. Google Draw, Dobbie and Jacquard looms, history of. Yes as a hand weaver you can go out and buy one, but forget about commercial production, that day has been and gone.
- fennecfoxen 15y ago
  Hey. What are you talking about? The poster you replied to compares 3-D printing quality to today's textile manufacture and concluded that the latter was too coarse. Does the existence of historical weaving techniques, which may have been superior to modern weaving techniques for those who could afford them, render his assertion false?

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There are glaring flaws in their analysis in all five cases, and no solid connection to the sweeping claim they're baiting peoople with. E.g. 3D printers are a

by fuu 15y ago

uncoder0 15y ago
2030 is a long way out.
jsmcgd 15y ago
The article is making a prediction about the future and technology normally improves with time. Your example implies that you think we'll be stuck with 1mm resolution and with deposited ABS plastic. I think 3D printers of the not so distant future will finely weave textiles. Amongst other things.
hsmyers 15y ago
"Finely-woven textiles"---this tells me you know very little about the last 150 years of weaving technology. We no longer have such a thing and have not had since the 20th century. The last looms capable of doing that kind of work hit the scrap heap well more than 20 years ago. Closest thing to it (and that's not all that close) are produced on islands off of the cost of Scotland; heavily subsidized and tightly controlled. Google Draw, Dobbie and Jacquard looms, history of. Yes as a hand weaver you can go out and buy one, but forget about commercial production, that day has been and gone.
- fennecfoxen 15y ago
  Hey. What are you talking about? The poster you replied to compares 3-D printing quality to today's textile manufacture and concluded that the latter was too coarse. Does the existence of historical weaving techniques, which may have been superior to modern weaving techniques for those who could afford them, render his assertion false?