Something invented cannot be un-invented. Once one of these is made, economy itself becomes obsolete. With the internet, every pattern is free (or is pirated). You can literally make anything that someone has made a pattern for. I could probably rig one to run off solar power over a weekend; I'm sure others could do so.
Just program it to make others with solar panels and a few basic food blueprints, make a replicator for a guy with a plane, then start shipping them off.
The most interesting implication is on the economy. With such a device, you can create a country completely self-sufficient. The standard of living in a world with the fabricator would be by our standards today, a very comfortable life. You could make food just like that, you could make luxury items just like that, what significance would money have?
Diamonds, very expensive in todays world can be dirty cheap in the future world. Objects no longer hold value, information will.
You won't be able to create money or weapons. This isn't a machine that you simply tell it what to make and it makes it. It needs the blueprint for the object to be made, to make a beef burger it needs to know the structure of the meat and such.
Here is where you see a change, instead of buying the burger at a store, you buy the information to create the burger. Now you can impose limitations in that you only allow one creation per purchase, so no making 10 Big Macs for the price of one.
@defrule That will never work. See, there is this little thing called piracy. Since the blueprints for fabricated items essentially be just computer data, it can easily be cracked and redistributed freely over the internet. Sorry, but capitalism is doomed. There is no point in trying to preserve it.
@Nathan173AB unfortunatly it wud also destroy millions of jobs in retail and catering and lets not 4 get that people cud find out chemical compositions on their own (if they wanted 2) and either sell or giv away 'knock off' copies howevr with the way govrnments r crakin down on the internet (due 2 companies payin them 2) its not hard 2 imagin that half of the things on the internet currently will be illegal soon (just look at that new copyright bill u hav in america ther tryin 2 put thru
@TimTheUnlucky So what? The advent of this technology obsolete retail a catering, which is a good thing. Was it bad when the the advent of the home refrigerator obsoleted the job of the ice maker? Nope. The government can try to control it all they want, but it's not going to work as they can barely control it now.
if they did ever create one of these only the government would own them, they would NEVER release them for public use because people would be able to create money, weapons etc
I wonder what would be the social impact of 3d assembler in every home? How would the world look like, say, 20 years after this tech becomes an everyday home device, like fridge or tv?
Hey! We can make people with this... o.O"?! Imortal Mans maybe, with no oxigen need... with titanium bones... We can create a God?! o.O"... WTF!
We can rebuild planets... Create rivers... Change all... It's like G.E.C.K (Garden of Eden Creation Kit) from Fallout... we can destroy people using their atoms to make another beings... Just 10.000.000 and u can do this in home =D...
@AKTCross only the chemical constructs of 1 u cudnt giv it life untill we find out how that is done...and u hav2 stick with wot is possible, so instead of oxygen wot wud this immortal being need, how wud that effect its abillity 2 suvive on earth as well as its diet...and just bcoz im a dick, y an immoral man, not an immortal woman or race...or a pet immortal goldfish so it doesnt die on the first day u buy it :P
@kahnicles by the time these things come out... a million bucks wont be worth shit... hell money is already starting to not be worth anything at all... can't wait till we phase out money!
Can you provide me the source of the video or at least the name director and date?
mgabr1 1 month ago
@mgabr1
This is a clip from the BBC series Visions Of The Future,
This episode was titled The Quantum Revolution , first broadcast on BBC 3 in October 2007
I would be most interested to hear an update on the progress at MIT on this device if anyone can help?
payit4ward 1 month ago
Something invented cannot be un-invented. Once one of these is made, economy itself becomes obsolete. With the internet, every pattern is free (or is pirated). You can literally make anything that someone has made a pattern for. I could probably rig one to run off solar power over a weekend; I'm sure others could do so.
Just program it to make others with solar panels and a few basic food blueprints, make a replicator for a guy with a plane, then start shipping them off.
darkonelunarian 3 months ago
Finally, a machine that can create an endless supply of ganja.
:)
D3VILB3RT 1 year ago
@D3VILB3RT lmao just what I was thinking
kokacola1122 1 year ago
The most interesting implication is on the economy. With such a device, you can create a country completely self-sufficient. The standard of living in a world with the fabricator would be by our standards today, a very comfortable life. You could make food just like that, you could make luxury items just like that, what significance would money have?
Diamonds, very expensive in todays world can be dirty cheap in the future world. Objects no longer hold value, information will.
defrule 1 year ago
@defrule LoL not even information will hold much value! Something called the internet changed that already. You're right though. Capitalism is over.
Nathan173AB 6 months ago
You won't be able to create money or weapons. This isn't a machine that you simply tell it what to make and it makes it. It needs the blueprint for the object to be made, to make a beef burger it needs to know the structure of the meat and such.
Here is where you see a change, instead of buying the burger at a store, you buy the information to create the burger. Now you can impose limitations in that you only allow one creation per purchase, so no making 10 Big Macs for the price of one.
defrule 1 year ago
@defrule That will never work. See, there is this little thing called piracy. Since the blueprints for fabricated items essentially be just computer data, it can easily be cracked and redistributed freely over the internet. Sorry, but capitalism is doomed. There is no point in trying to preserve it.
Nathan173AB 6 months ago
@Nathan173AB unfortunatly it wud also destroy millions of jobs in retail and catering and lets not 4 get that people cud find out chemical compositions on their own (if they wanted 2) and either sell or giv away 'knock off' copies howevr with the way govrnments r crakin down on the internet (due 2 companies payin them 2) its not hard 2 imagin that half of the things on the internet currently will be illegal soon (just look at that new copyright bill u hav in america ther tryin 2 put thru
TimTheUnlucky 3 months ago
@TimTheUnlucky So what? The advent of this technology obsolete retail a catering, which is a good thing. Was it bad when the the advent of the home refrigerator obsoleted the job of the ice maker? Nope. The government can try to control it all they want, but it's not going to work as they can barely control it now.
Nathan173AB 3 months ago
If you had one that was solar power there would be no world hunger.
MajoraProject 1 year ago
if they did ever create one of these only the government would own them, they would NEVER release them for public use because people would be able to create money, weapons etc
graveey 1 year ago
The beautiful part is that, once you build one, you don't have to build any more. Just have it self replicate.
tree6014 1 year ago
I wonder what would be the social impact of 3d assembler in every home? How would the world look like, say, 20 years after this tech becomes an everyday home device, like fridge or tv?
8legsFreak 2 years ago
Hey! We can make people with this... o.O"?! Imortal Mans maybe, with no oxigen need... with titanium bones... We can create a God?! o.O"... WTF!
We can rebuild planets... Create rivers... Change all... It's like G.E.C.K (Garden of Eden Creation Kit) from Fallout... we can destroy people using their atoms to make another beings... Just 10.000.000 and u can do this in home =D...
AKTCross 2 years ago
@AKTCross only the chemical constructs of 1 u cudnt giv it life untill we find out how that is done...and u hav2 stick with wot is possible, so instead of oxygen wot wud this immortal being need, how wud that effect its abillity 2 suvive on earth as well as its diet...and just bcoz im a dick, y an immoral man, not an immortal woman or race...or a pet immortal goldfish so it doesnt die on the first day u buy it :P
TimTheUnlucky 3 months ago
good luck, as if they'd ever sell these things for less than a million bucks. it'd be the end of the retail industry.
it'd be like the drug companies releasing a true panacea
good luck
kahnicles 3 years ago 3
@kahnicles by the time these things come out... a million bucks wont be worth shit... hell money is already starting to not be worth anything at all... can't wait till we phase out money!
mikehawktv 1 year ago 2
Toot Toot. Wawa wa Sayins.
antiparticlesteve 3 years ago
I wonder what i would make first ? See
what in sayin, say what im seeing. Sayin.
antiparticlesteve 3 years ago