Contour Crafting

'Daily Planet' on Contour Crafting --or how to build a complete house -including plumbing and electricity- in about a day with robotic technology.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• contour
• crafting
• robotics
• building

[squarestuff]

i think it would be kind of weird to live in a concrete house...

[psalazarmora]

Well, once the technology is refined, the mixture could be mostly made out of local soil (a very low percentage of concrete would most likely still be used for stabilisation). The end result would be affordable, housing, made of dirt cheap material (quite literally), and with all the advantages of earth buildings. Something similar to the commercial technique known as "cast earth".

[antilect]

The Venus Project...... Is the best idea I've ever heard. A society that creates such abundance will erase a lot of our problems today ^^ I really like TVP and their efficient structures.

[Watchdawg]

The monetary system will work as a barrier to all of the positive things that technology have to offer, we need a resource based system. Check out the Venus Project.

[Lifesucksdie123]

i love how they covered "back in black" there at the end.

cool shit

[FactualSolutions]

The Zeitgeist Movement (TZM) has been showing that we have the ability to generate energy, food, housing, health and education for everyone in the world, while, at the same time, we are able to ELIMINATE OUR ECONOMICAL, SOCIAL & ECOLOGICAL CRISIS along with corruption, poverty, abuse of power, unemployment, social stratification, and other factors that hinder the life and sustainability of the planet and its inhabitants.To know more about it, watch: "Zeitgeist Addendum" - It is on youtube

:)

FS

[TheSquibbs]

@Omnist It is not difficult to visualise 50yrs from now the service sector will be largely automated, unless the monetary-market economy prevents it somehow. Ultimately, it is inevitable that within a technological age/exponential technological evolution "man-hours" worked will become less & less required for society to function. Unless your ulterior motive is to simply get a kick out of living in a feaudalistic state where some humans serve others simply for the quirk of owning human slaves?

[sacraficialangel7]

@squarestuff don't you live in a house made from bricks? why is this any different?

[kingofthepaupers]

Jct: Wow. As the lever of technology gets longer and longer, we need less and less human input. So what about all the jobs that will no longer be there? No answer. Major Clifford Douglas of "Social Credit" fame said the wage would have to be replaced by a citizen's dividend, a share of the robot paychecks. If not, as Real Caouette said: take out the bulldozer and put in 50 guys with shovels. Need more jobs, take away their shovels and give them spoons. It's not jobs we need, it's money.

[chapulinaaa]

This should be open-source like RepRap!

[grovestreet8]

what about the foundations?

[john5246]

The labor unions are already holding us back. If it was about employment why don't we get rid of all caterpillar machines and have everyone dig with shovels, or better yet TEASPOONS, that would create a lot of employment