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I don't know this for a fact, but I think Wilson is trying to "heighten the contradictions." Everybody, government included, talks about the amazing possibiliti

I don't know this for a fact, but I think Wilson is trying to "heighten the contradictions." Everybody, government included, talks about the amazing possibilities of private drones, home 3d printing, and I suppose ecommerce (cryptocurrency/darkwallet.) He knows that there's places the government isn't going to let you go though, so he's going to force the crackdown to happen now while the enthusiasm for the good parts are fresh, rather than letting the rights degradation happen gradually after people start taking the technology for granted.

tjradcliffe 12y ago
He's almost like a performance artist, making manifest the potential of nascent technologies. It's perfectly true that anyone has been able to build a sort-of-OK firearm for a century or so out of stuff you can buy at a hardware store, but soon anyone will be able to 3D print (via laser sintering) a really effective firearm. I'm not a big fan of American gun culture, but the reality is that we are headed toward a world where anyone will be able print a decent weapon, and nothing is going to hold back that tide because the economic advantages of 3D printing are too large even now to regulate it out of existence. Wilson's antics--and they really do look like antics to me--are forcing people to face that far earlier than they would have to do otherwise.