Posted on 02/10/2013 10:54:28 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
Glenn Beck talks with Hod Lipson, author of "Fabricated The New World of 3D printing"
A good interview on the implications of 3d printing. Glen understands the technology better than anyone else I have seen in the media. He does understand that it is the centralization of power which is at risk, because power could only be centralized and control the economy when the industrial revolution created large factories. However, I don't think we are going into a new frontier as he seems to think we are. We are simply going back to the days before the industrial revolution, with decentralized production, as it was around the time of our revolution.
In those days a blacksmith, gunsmith, silversmith, etc was in every town, and could make anything required by the town. This is where we are heading. Government can't control it, and efforts to control it will fail, because demand for these machines will be driven in part by the demand to produce things that are not allowed to be made by centralized factories.
“This 3-D printing will in a little while morph into something called an assembler.
They will come in small desktop models to large mobile models that build homes/bridges/whatever
Just about all you really need to build large structures like homes is lots of sand, an assembler and plenty of energy.
Assemblers will one day be able to create drugs, food, clothes, electronic devices, tools .... and new assemblers.”
Kind of sounds like that great machine that the Krell were building in the 1950’s sci-fi classic, “Forbidden Planet”…
Just so long as they can’t start printin’ “the Id…”
“The next step in a run-away government would be to identify households/businesses having these devices”
Not practical.... it reminds of people saying printers are violating copyrights and MP3 players and computers recording and transferring studio quality music.
The answer is yep - and they changed the world. 3D printers will change it even more. They will make devices and machines that never could have been made before.
hold on
Onesey-twosey, proto types, modeling, and mockups. Maybe. But churning out thousands at a time?
Also, what about maintenance.
Maybe I am missing something.
IMO, it is a totally new model that obviates mass production. Instead of centralized mass production, you will have individualized limited production. Either everyone will make the items they need for themselves or several people will make small amounts of various items for a small local market.
The money will initially be in the programs and various feedstocks. However, at some point you may be able to take elements like carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and make anything at all from them. Software programs will become open source. The left will go nuts. It will be a post-scarcity economy.
This is as close as it comes:
I think they were faking it. If you look at the "printer," it looks more like mockup than the real thing.
It may have been that 3D printing was still on the drawing board, but Michael Crichton incorporated it into the movie just so show how prescient he was.
Thanks for looking.
Will it be able to create a liquid?
Will it be able to create a liquid?
Yes, basically they will be able to create liquids from other raw liquids and solids. Take say H2O and a few other things and produce a large selection of finished goods.
Those that know the tech say the ability to assemble pharmaceuticals is not that far off and that will be with machines the public can afford.
Raw materials in one end and finished product out the other.
How will the drug war handle that I wonder...they can’t put the raw ingredients on a watch list since only a few basic ones would be used to synthesize nearly anything. A sort of techno-alchemy on a desktop.
That is something I would have to see to believe.
That is something I would have to see to believe.
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