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This would be a change in line with the printing press, industrial revolution, and the Internet; if not bigger. Question is how can those particles be made in s
by sili 17y ago
This would be a change in line with the printing press, industrial revolution, and the Internet; if not bigger. Question is how can those particles be made in such massive amounts and at low enough price.
The article also touches on another interesting point: that given access to appropriate tools, people can solve a lot of their problems. I personally know how frustrating it is to get an idea and not being able to try it out just because I have no means. Maybe providing such $20k shops to poor regions can have as much impact as providing schools and education.
- zmimon 17y ago> Question is how can those particles be made in such massive amounts and at low enough price. I'm more worried about how we stop them once they are successfully programmed to self-replicate. I actually think that 'Gray Goo' is a far more likely scenario for the demise of mankind than it is given credit for: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_goo
- Gormo 17y agoI think the best argument against a "grey goo" apocalypse is that it hasn't happened yet, despite the fact that the earth is already full of self-replicating nano-machines.
- biohacker42 17y agoOr it HAS happened and WE are the goo! Seriously, there's more bacteria in the human body then human cells. And it's not like the world is short on self replicating nano-machines outside of our bodies. There's self replicating goo everywhere!
- biohacker42 17y ago3D printers are hugely expensive but I think things like manufacturing solar panels are cost efficient. Obviously a solar panel is an extremely simple circuit but hopefully more complicated machines can be printed in a similarly large scale process.