FWIW, I understood "Print houses from CAD drawings using an adobe-extruding robot" right away. But then I'm part of the tech novelty crowd. 3-D printers are coming. And I think they are going to be really cool. I don't know about at the size of houses, but I'm really looking forward to desktop 3-D printers that can fabricate any CAD drawing I pump into it.
The hypothetical union opposition to 3-D printing (construction, extruding) technology is analogous to intellectual property holder's opposition to filesharing. With Gnutella I can trade digital IP. Add a 3-D printer and now I can use filesharing to trade *real items*!
That all seems cool to me. Won't the question of whether the final products are "shit" or not have to do with how the technology is used, rather than with the technology itself? Are you against using power tools to build houses? They put a lot of people out of work...
But I agree with your point that some criticality is a good thing.
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The hypothetical union opposition to 3-D printing (construction, extruding) technology is analogous to intellectual property holder's opposition to filesharing. With Gnutella I can trade digital IP. Add a 3-D printer and now I can use filesharing to trade *real items*!
That all seems cool to me. Won't the question of whether the final products are "shit" or not have to do with how the technology is used, rather than with the technology itself? Are you against using power tools to build houses? They put a lot of people out of work...
But I agree with your point that some criticality is a good thing.
- jim 3-11-2004 12:21 am