Michio Kaku Personal Fabricators
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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?
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Can you provide me the source of the video or at least the name director and date?
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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.
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@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.
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@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
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@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
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@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.
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@defrule LoL not even information will hold much value! Something called the internet changed that already. You're right though. Capitalism is over.
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@D3VILB3RT lmao just what I was thinking
@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 3
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