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This article does not go deep enough. If you want to know what society might be like with this techonology: - Read Neal Stephenson Diamond Age - Read Peter F.
by hosh 14y ago
This article does not go deep enough. If you want to know what society might be like with this techonology:
- Read Neal Stephenson Diamond Age
- Read Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga
- Watch Star Trek: Next Generation (replicator technology)
This isn't the "third" industrial revolution. This is a continuation of the Information Revolution. 3D printing isn't really about being able to print things from your home. It's about Software Eating Things.
- hosh 14y agoAnd one more: someone has already experimenting with printable circuitry. We are already seeing DMCA takedowns of blueprints for 3D printable things. SOPA/PIPA are merely previews of what's to come.
- hosh 14y agoThis is out of date -- here are some of the things that have been going on in the past five years: http://www.quora.com/Maker-Revolution/The-Diamond-Age-Redux http://www.quora.com/Maker-Revolution/The-Diamond-Age-Redux
- knewter 14y agoHa, I was halfway into that before realizing this was you hosh :) Nice collection. The Diamond Age has long been one of my favorite books (of course, it was the first one I re-read when I got an e-reader)