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Or the other way around. Existence of replicators will create laws forbidding you to whittle yourself a shape of a Mercedes.
by praptak 12y ago
Or the other way around. Existence of replicators will create laws forbidding you to whittle yourself a shape of a Mercedes.
- digi_owl 12y agoI think we are already getting there with 3D printers...
- ryandrake 12y agoOr the other other way around: Star Trek style replicators will never see the light of day. As soon as the technology even REMOTELY gets close, everyone with a financial interest in keeping physical goods scarce (basically all manufacturing companies), will collectively come down on it like a ton of bricks. If you think the record and movie industry lobbying effort against sharing is powerful, imagine basically every manufacturing company in existence joining in.
- digi_owl 12y agoAs long as some political suit somewhere things that it will give them a leg up in the rat race, that lobbying will be shown the door.